Golf club
AssigneeTaylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
InventorsTodd P. Beach, Nathan Sargent, Kraig Alan Willett, Joseph Henry Hoffman
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Abstract
A golf club comprises a shaft, a club head, and a connection assembly that allows the shaft to be easily disconnected from the club head. In particular embodiments, a sleeve including a top portion and a middle portion connected to the top portion is described. The middle portion includes a thin wall thickness. A bottom portion is connected to the middle portion including a plurality of engaging surfaces. A central longitudinal axis and an offset angle offset from the central longitudinal axis is described. The offset angle allows a maximum loft change of about 0.5 degrees to about 4.0 degrees. The total weight of the sleeve is less than 9 g.
Claims30
A system comprising:
- a golf club head comprising:
- a body comprising a striking face, a crown, a sole, and a hosel;
- an adjustable head-shaft connection system configured to allow the golf club head to be adjustably attachable to a golf club shaft in a plurality of different positions resulting in different combinations of loft angle, face angle, and lie angle;
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- at least two weights attachable to and removable from the body at a plurality of different positions relative to the body;
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- a single tool configured to engage both the head-shaft connection system and the weights.
A system comprising:
- a golf club head comprising:
- a body comprising a striking face, a crown, a sole, and a hosel;
- an adjustable head-shaft connection system configured to allow the golf club head to be adjustably attachable to a golf club shaft in a plurality of different positions wherein a longitudinal center axis of the hosel is offset from a longitudinal center axis of the shaft;
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- at least two weights attachable to and removable from the body at a plurality of different positions relative to the body;
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- a torque-limiting tool configured to engage with the head-shaft connection system or the weights.
A golf club comprising:
- a golf club shaft;
- a club head body comprising a striking face, a crown, a sole, and a hosel;
- an adjustable head-shaft connection system comprising a sleeve and a screw, the sleeve being positioned within the hosel and configured to couple the shaft to the hosel in a plurality of different configurations relative to the body, the screw being insertable through the sole region of the body and configured to secure the sleeve and shaft to the body;
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- at least two weights attachable to and removable from the body at a plurality of different positions relative to the body.
A golf club head comprising:
- a club head body comprising a striking face, a crown, a sole, and a hosel;
- an adjustable head-shaft connection system configured to allow the golf club head to be adjustably attachable to a golf club shaft in a plurality of different positions resulting in different combinations of loft angle, face angle, and lie angle;
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- at least two weight assemblies attachable to and removable from the body at a plurality of different positions relative to the body, the weight assemblies comprising a mass element and a screw, wherein rotation of the screw applies an extraction force on the mass element, such that the mass element is extractable from the body along with the screw.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.