Swingless Golf Club

By Minnesotastan in Sports on Apr 10, 2010 at 8:57 pm

With an exciting final round of the Masters Tournament pending at Augusta National Golf Club, this seems an appropriate time to post a video of a golf club that uses an explosive charge to propel the ball.

The club uses a plastic strip of five (5) small powder charges, called a Power Strip. Energy from the charge drives the striker in the club head forward to hit the ball. An adjustable range control enables shots from approximately 25 to 200 yards. The handle grip has two parts – the upper grip slides up a few inches to cock the club, and the lower grip has the safety and the trigger. Holding the club like a regular driver, position it on the grass about an inch behind the ball (no tees needed) and press the safety and the trigger on the lower grip. With no swing involved there are no divots, fewer errant shots and fewer lost golf balls.

This would be the club of choice for Anton Chigurh.

Tags: golf clubs

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zav
Apr 11th, 2010 at 12:32 am
Finally, golf gets interesting.
wow
Apr 11th, 2010 at 3:32 am
SCIENCE!
Foreigner1
Apr 11th, 2010 at 4:12 am
I don’t understand- I always thought that especially learning to swing and hit that ball correctly was all about that sport…? To me, this just seems like me going to play tennis and then using some kind of robot-arm to do the swinging of the racket for me…
emmakate
Apr 11th, 2010 at 8:11 am
^ It wouldn’t be for avid golfers, but for their spouses or whoever wants to join their golfing friends on the course but suck at golf
CYBret
Apr 11th, 2010 at 8:13 am
Who knew the laziest game in the world could get lazier!
jimmyhoffascorpse
Apr 11th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Perfect. The only part i didn’t like about golf was the swinging. You think they’ll update wiisports once this becomes standard?
c0ldfish
Apr 11th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
i enjoy the fact that the guy doesn’t try to market it towards regular golfers

commendable straight forwardness
Maus
Apr 11th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
I don’t particularly find watching golf all that interesting. But part of the POINT of golf is how hard you hit the ball and where you aim it. The swing in golf is essentially the whole game. This contraption makes the game completely pointless. Next we will have Basketballs that throw themselves, and remote controlled hockey pucks.
Vonskippy
Apr 11th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
The handle seems a bit too short to allow the “golfer” to stay seated in the cart and still fire off a shot.
Alex
Apr 11th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Just pick up the ball and throw it!

Love the Anton Chigurh reference. No Country (Club) For Old Men
jimmy the truck
Apr 11th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
I think its main usage would be for people that love golf but have a back injury or arthritis/sciatica…How would you get these on a plane with the explosive ‘power strips?’…
renderanything
Apr 11th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Anyone else notice the improper and unsafe procedure for reloading the weapon, ahem, club?
1 Cock the handle
2 Advance the Power Strip
3 Push the striker back in….

What? Why in the world would you first cock and load it, then handle the end that shoots out with enough force to drive a ball 2-300 yards? That’s a liability just waiting for an accident.
“No, really Judge, I was just following the instructional video when I lost my finger.”
johnshlorddorn
Apr 11th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
This just in.
Baseball pitchers have also been replaced by ball machines.

The inevitable march of technology.
Jimbo
Apr 12th, 2010 at 9:54 am
I noticed that the report of said ‘charge’ is not in the audio. Given the reputation how when swinging everyone is supposed to be uber quiet, I cannot believe that introducing a cap gun will go over very well. Perhaps with a warning such as one first anouncing, “FIRE IN THE HOLE!”?

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