Weight-matched set of golf clubs
OwnerAlan Brooksinventor
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Abstract
A weight matched set of golf clubs is provided, wherein each club provides the golfer with precisely the same feel when the club is swung. Weight is added to each of the golf clubs in a set whose rotational dynamic properties (e.g., moment of inertia) have been matched about a selected axis. Sufficient weight is added to each of the clubs in the set to make the total weight of that club equal to the total weight of the heaviest club in the set. Such weight is added in such manner as to leave the moment of inertia about the selected axis of each club in the set essentially unchanged. This will provide the golfer with a set of clubs whose translational inertia, as well as the previously established rotational inertia, is essentially the same for each club in the set.
Claims18
A set of golf clubs comprising
- a first golf club having a first weight and a first moment of inertia about a first axis of the first golf club;
- a second golf club having a second weight and a second moment of inertia about a second axis of the second golf club, wherein the first moment of inertia is substantially equal to the second moment of inertia, and the first weight is substantially equal to the second weight.
A method of fabricating a set of golf clubs comprising:
- designing each golf club in the set of golf clubs to have substantially the same moment of inertia about a given axis;
- and
- adding weight to one or more of the golf clubs in the set at the given axis, such that each of the golf clubs in the set has the same weight.
A method of fabricating a set of golf clubs comprising:
- designing each golf club in the set of golf clubs to have substantially the same swing weight;
- and
- adding weight to one or more of the golf clubs in the set at an axis about which the swing weight estimates a moment of inertia, such that each of the golf clubs in the set has the same weight.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.