Like most weekend golfers, an Englishman named A. (for Arthur) P. Pedrick, 52, often found his game wanting. "I was frustrated with my slicing and hooking," he says, "and I spent a lot of time looking for the damn ball in the rough. It was infuriating." But Pedrick, a mechanical engineer by training, a tinkerer by inclination—and a better inventor than golfer—has now filed plans with the British Patent Office for a series of devices that could offer the suffering duffer new hope on the links.
Pedrick first attacked a major problem for both duffers and professionals. Unless the face of the...