Adjustable Wedges?
There’s a lot of talk right now about adjustability when it comes to different golf club designs…it’s the new catch-phrase in golf for 2009. But when you hear the term adjustability…people are usually referring to drivers or shafts being adjusted.
Although…a company by the name of S. God which we spoke about earlier on MGS (developed the first adjustable loft + face angle driver) has come up with another one of it’s golf firsts. This one is called the “Viper Wedge”…and what makes this thingamawedge different is the fact that you can adjust it’s bounce. Great for those wedges that have a ton of bounce and are good for the trap but are rendered useless for the average golfer in the fairway.
But will anyone actually use it you ask? Probably not…but it’s still the most outside the box design idea I have seen so far when it comes to the recent golf club ajustability allowances by the USGA…well at least since Nike and Taylormade had you believe that they invented the adjustable driver. I am sure S-God would beg to differ…and it just makes you realize that so much of our US golf technology comes from (aka: stolen) both from small golf companies and overseas manufacturers that you might never have heard of.
Look For This Wedge Design To Be Stolen in 2010!
Yes…Nike and Taylormade want you to believe that they were the first to invent the new catchy adjustable loft and face angle drivers that you are hearing about…like the Taylormade R9 and the new Nike Str-8 FIT…but I don’t think S-God or Nakashima would agree with that. Just another great marketing pitch based on hype to generate and boost sales for the two big US golf companies.
Now…this doesn’t mean that we feel the S. God clubs perform better…we have tested them and they really don’t…but from what our research shows they should at least get credit for being the first. It’s always blew my mind, how two golf companies can come out with the exact same technology at the exact same time and both claim it was their idea first…makes me laugh. It has happened so many times…just in the last few years it has happened twice…first with the square head designs and now with the adjustable driver heads.
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Steve
11 years ago
It’s not stolen if it’s not patented. Without “stealing,” TaylorMade would have the only metalwoods and Ping the only heel/toe weighted putters. Technology is open for all to share and expand on.
mygolfspy
11 years ago
1. This is patented
2. Technology is patentable so its not open for sharing.
Claims on patents are fairly easy to get around. So this is why you see so many similar ideas by different companies launched at similar times. But the issue is the fact that these large companies rarely introduce ground-breaking technology with out borrowing ideas from inventors who never get the credit they are often due. Most all golf companies do this. But still does not make it right or acceptable just because all of them participate. The laws are flawed. And they take advantage of it. They could easily pay royalties to those responsible for their gains they make of their borrowed tech. Big business these guys I see it all the time and no it is NOT right.