The Nibbler N18
No unplayable lies
An 18 inch escape iron for the shots you can’t swing at. Legal in competition. Coming this winter.
First run is limited. List members get first access.
You know the walk.
Your ball is under a tree. You’ve got two options and you hate both of them.
Chip out sideways and give up forty yards. Or take the penalty and give up a stroke.
There’s never been a third option. There used to be.
1955
They made it illegal.
In the 1950s, Burke sold a stubby twelve inch iron with a face on both sides. They marketed it as “No Unplayable Ball,” and it did exactly that. Golfers used it to get out from under trees, out of hedges, and off the roots where nothing else fit.
Then the rules changed. A club has to be at least eighteen inches. It can only have one striking face. The Nub was illegal overnight, and it disappeared.
The problem it solved didn’t.
Photo placeholder — Steph with the prototype, on course, not posed.
The founder
I built this because I got tired of chipping out sideways.
Two Maples Club. My ball was six inches from a trunk with a branch at knee height. I knew exactly what shot I wanted to hit and I physically could not take the club back.
I chipped out, made double, and spent the rest of the round wondering why nobody had built a club that fits in there.
Turns out somebody had. In 1955. And then it got banned.
— Steph Warren, Baldwin, Maryland
So we built a legal one.
The Nibbler N18. Eighteen and a quarter inches, one striking face, thirty degrees of loft, built to the rulebook and submitted for a conformance ruling. It fits in the bag next to your wedges and does one job completely.
18.25″
Conforming length
30°
Built for low and running
1
Striking face, as the rules require
470g
Head mass, to power through rough
Can the Nibbler save this?
Every week we take it somewhere it shouldn’t work. Buried in a bush. Against a trunk. On roots. In the pine straw.
Sometimes it doesn’t work. We post those too.
Four shots it was built for.
Under the branches.
Make a real stroke where a wedge won't fit.
- Photo to come
Against the trunk.
No backswing room, no problem.
- Photo to come
Inside the bush.
Heavy head, wide sole, gets through the mess.
- Photo to come
Off the roots.
Rounded leading edge, built for lies that chew up wedges.
Submit a lie
Send us the worst lie you’ve ever had.
We pick one every week and take the Nibbler to it. If we film yours, you get a club from the first run.
Photo of the lie, where it happened, and what you ended up doing about it.
It won’t fix your slice.
The Nibbler won’t add distance. It won’t lower your handicap on its own. It’s not forgiving, it’s not long, and you’ll use it maybe two or three times a round.
Those are the two or three times you were going to drop a shot anyway.
People who know the lie.
“I can't believe how easy it was to hit. You can get that ball moving.”
T. Ramasay
Maryland
Impossible Golf Lies
A group for people who keep finding themselves under trees. Post the lie, argue about the shot, watch us try it.
First run is limited.
We’re building a small batch this winter. The list gets first access, the conformance ruling, and the price before anyone else.
No spam. Just build updates and the occasional impossible lie.