Recent years have seen some outside-the-box thinking in terms of club design. Putters continue to come in all sorts of shapes, while driver clubheads have morphed into squares, triangles and even changed colors to all-white. But it has been some time since we have seen truly bizarre-looking equipment make its way into players’ hands.

Which is why the return of the PowerPod driver is intriguing — if not completely unsurprising. It was a darned good anti-slice weapon, though it looked so weird that most players were hesitant to use it. These clubs, if redesigned using newer materials, could come back. Just watch.

The longest, straightest Cleveland Launcher Fairway Wood ever produced boasting a low spin, mid-trajectory and high MOI profile giving it all round results from various lies. Beyond the Launchers head design, the latest Fujikura Fit-On shaft enhances a players swing speeds for additional yardage giving you all the components you need to hit high towering approaches into greens.Flood’s new design won’t have that problem. The clubhead does not have the three-inch circular face of the original, but features a trapezoidal face and a clubhead where the majority of the rear portion has been eliminated, leaving a mere shelf on the back. Flood’s goal, however, has not changed — keep the ball from slicing.

“There should be more freedom in the rules for how a club can look,” said Flood, who also designed a Tiger Shark putter based on the Basakwerd. “I’m not talking about clubs that fundamentally change the way the game is played, but clubs that have a functional reason for looking the way they do.”

At only half a millimeter thick, the Cleveland Launcher Driver crown moves every bit of potential weight low and deep to improve the CG. The sole’s horseshoe weight pad also imporves launch conditions by localizing weight low and deep, imporivng both MOI (moment of inertia) and CG locations, while the largest Launcher face to date allows generous room for mis-hits.

The result is better perimeter weighting and a higher moment of inertia, which, just like a golf club, enhances forgiveness. In the case of a ball, it can assist in windy conditions due to reduced driver spin.