The UROClub

The UROClub is a golf club that secretly doubles as a portable urinal, designed for golfers stuck far from a restroom on a long course. The shaft is hollow and holds liquid, and an attached towel provides cover so a player can relieve himself discreetly at the edge of the fairway. The product came from Dr. Floyd Seskin, a Miami area physician who turned a common on course problem into a novelty gadget.

Seskin arrived having already moved product through television, with prior sales that proved people would actually buy it. He offered a controlling stake for a small investment. Kevin Harrington, the infomercial veteran among the sharks, recognized a classic direct response candidate and made a deal that gave him a large majority of the company in exchange for the cash and his selling muscle.

The pitch stood out for pure shock value and humor, but underneath the laughs was a product with a track record. Harrington's interest signaled that, novelty aside, the UROClub fit the gag gift and direct response market well, which is exactly the lane it would go on to occupy.

As with several early Season 1 handshakes, the televised deal with Harrington did not close after the show during follow up. That left Seskin without the shark partnership he appeared to win on air, but it did not end the product.

The UROClub kept selling on its own as a steady novelty and gag gift item. It remains available today through its maker and on marketplaces, and it has even become a pop culture curiosity, appearing in features about offbeat products. It is a modest but enduring niche product rather than a fast growth company.