Weighted iron set
AssigneeAcushnet Company
InventorsJason A. Mata, Marni D. Ines, Jonathan Hebreo, Joshua G. Breier, Michael E. Franz, Joshua C. Stokes, Grant M. Martens
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Abstract
The present invention is direct to a set of golf clubs comprising long irons, mid-irons and short irons. The invention contemplates the use of titanium or steel for the main body portion and a tungsten weight member coupled to the toe and a tungsten heel weight member coupled in a hosel cavity.
Claims11
A set of golf clubs comprising at least a first club head having a loft between about 15 and 25 degrees, a first club head mass, a y-axis extending vertically through a face center of the first club head and a first Moment of Inertia about the y-axis, a second club head having a loft of between about 26 and 35 degrees, a second club head mass, a second y-axis extending vertically through a face center of the second club head and a second Moment of Inertia about the second y-axis, and a third club head having a loft of about 36 degrees or greater, a third club head mass, a third y-axis extending vertically through a face center of the third club head and a third Moment of Inertia about the third y-axis,
- the first club head comprising:
- a first body made of steel comprising a first heel, a first toe, a first topline, a first sole, a first hosel, and a first back wall, a first face insert made of steel and having a first face insert mass, the first face insert having a thickness of 1.8 mm or less and has an Ultimate Tensile Strength of 2000 MPa or greater, the first face insert being welded to the first body to form a first hollow cavity between the first face insert and the first back wall;
- a first toe weight member formed of tungsten and coupled in a lower toe portion of the first hollow cavity that has a first toe weight member mass that comprises greater than 25% of the first club head mass;
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- a first heel weight member formed of tungsten and coupled in a first hosel cavity of the first body such that a shaft axis intersects the first heel weight member below the first hosel;
- wherein the first face insert mass is less than first toe weight member mass, and
- wherein the first sole has a first sole width and the first face insert includes a first face insert sole portion that extends from a leading edge of the first face insert toward the first back wall a distance in front-to-back direction that is at least 25% of the first sole width.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.