Golf club head with textured striking face
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorsPatrick Ripp, Jeff D. Brunski
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Abstract
A golf club head includes a striking face with a plurality of scorelines. A first virtual vertical plane is perpendicular to the striking face and passes through a toe-wardmost extent of the scorelines, and a second virtual vertical plane is parallel to the first virtual vertical plane and passes through a heel-wardmost extent of the scorelines. A central region bounded by the first virtual vertical plane, the second virtual vertical plane, and a striking face periphery has a first average surface roughness Ra1 of between about 40 μin and about 180 μin. And a majority of a toe region hounded by the first vertical plane and the striking face periphery is textured to have a second average surface roughness Ra2 no less than 1.5 times Ra1.
Claims8
A method of manufacturing a golf club head, the method comprising:
- (a) providing an intermediate golf club head body that, when oriented in a reference position, has a heel portion, a toe portion, a top portion, a bottom portion, and a striking face having a striking face periphery;
- (b) texturing a first portion of the striking face by surface milling in a first pass;
- (c) texturing a second portion of the striking face subsequent to step (b), the second portion being non-coextensive with the first portion;
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- (d) forming a plurality of scorelines in the striking face, wherein:
- the steps (b) and (c) combine to form a textured striking face area including a first region exhibiting a first average surface roughness Ra1 no less than 270 μin and a second region exhibiting a second average surface roughness Ra2 that is less than Ra1;
- a first virtual vertical plane perpendicular to the striking face passes through a toe-wardmost extent of the scorelines;
- a second virtual vertical plane parallel to the first virtual vertical plane passes through a heel-wardmost extent of the scorelines;
- the first region is located entirely toe-ward of the first vertical plane;
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- the second region extends entirely over the region of the striking face delimited by the first and second virtual vertical planes.
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