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US 2021/0260447 A1Published application
Golf club head
AssigneeTaylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
InventorsMichelle Penney, David Bennett, Nathan T. Sargent, Robert Story
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Abstract
Disclosed golf club heads include a body defining an interior cavity, a face, a sole, a crown, a skirt, and a hosel. Some embodiments include one or more of a split mass pad and/or one or more weight ports positioned in a sole portion of the body. Additionally or alternatively, one or more mass pads or weight ports may be positioned adjacent to the periphery of the sole portion. Some embodiments further include an adjustable head-shaft connection assembly configured to adjustably couple the hosel to a golf club shaft.
Claims21
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A golf club head, comprising:
- a golf club head body, defining an interior cavity, a top portion, and a rearward portion of the golf club head, and comprising:
- a sole, defining a bottom portion of the golf club head;
- a skirt portion, defining a periphery of the golf club head between the sole and a crown of the golf club head;
- a face, defining a forward portion of the golf club head and extending between a heel portion of the golf club head, defined by the golf club head body, and a toe portion of the golf club head, defined by the golf club head body, wherein the rearward portion the golf club head is opposite the face;
- a hosel;
- a recessed port, located on a heel-side of the sole;
- a hosel bore, extending through the hosel and open to the recessed port;
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- a threaded opening, located at the rearward portion of the golf club head and configured to receive a fastener for connecting a weight to the golf club head body;
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- a mass body, attached to the golf club head body at a forward portion of the sole, wherein the mass body has a mass between 20 grams and 80 grams,
- wherein the mass body extends from a first location, on a heel-side of the sole, to a second location, on a toe-side of the sole, and
- wherein the first location is at least as far heel-ward as a toewardmost portion of the recessed port and the second location is toeward of the threaded opening.
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A golf club head, comprising:
- a golf club head body, defining an interior cavity, a top portion, and a rearward portion of the golf club head, and comprising:
- a sole, defining a bottom portion of the golf club head;
- a skirt portion, defining a periphery of the golf club head between the sole and a crown of the golf club head;
- a face, defining a forward portion of the golf club head and extending between a heel portion of the golf club head, defined by the golf club head body, and a toe portion of the golf club head, defined by the golf club head body, wherein the rearward portion the golf club head is opposite the face;
- a hosel;
- a crown opening, at the top portion of the golf club head;
- a recessed port, located on a heel-side of the sole;
- a hosel bore, extending through the hosel and open to the recessed port;
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- a threaded opening, located at the rearward portion of the golf club head and configured to receive a fastener for connecting a weight to the golf club head body;
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- a mass body, attached to the golf club head body at a forward portion of the sole, wherein the mass body has a mass between 20 grams and 80 grams;
- a crown insert, attached to the golf club head body such that the crown insert covers the crown opening;
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- at least one removable weight, having a mass between approximately 0.5 grams and approximately 30 grams, and configured to be attached to the threaded opening via a fastener,
- wherein the crown insert defines a portion of the crown of the golf club head,
- wherein the crown insert defines at least 70% of a total surface area of the crown of the golf club head,
- wherein the mass body extends from a first location, on a heel-side of the sole, to a second location, on a toe-side of the sole,
- wherein the first location is at least as far heel-ward as a toewardmost portion of the recessed port and the second location is toeward of the threaded opening,
- wherein, at the forward portion of the golf club head and heelward of the mass body, the golf club head body is made of a titanium alloy,
- wherein, at the forward portion of the golf club head and toeward of the mass body, the golf club head body is made of a titanium alloy that is the same as or different than the titanium alloy heelward of the mass body, and
- wherein the golf club head has a center of gravity that is located less than about 40 millimeters horizontally rearward of a geometric center of the face when the golf club head is in a proper address position on a horizontal plane.
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A golf club head, comprising:
- a golf club head body, defining an interior cavity, a top portion, and a rearward portion of the golf club head, and comprising:
- a sole, defining a bottom portion of the golf club head;
- a skirt portion, defining a periphery of the golf club head between the sole and a crown of the golf club head;
- a face, defining a forward portion of the golf club head and extending between a heel portion of the golf club head, defined by the golf club head body, and a toe portion of the golf club head, defined by the golf club head body, wherein the rearward portion the golf club head is opposite the face;
- a hosel;
- a recessed port, located on a heel-side of the sole;
- a hosel bore, extending through the hosel and open to the recessed port;
- a threaded opening, located at the rearward portion of the golf club head and configured to receive a fastener for connecting a weight to the golf club head body;
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- a channel in a forward portion of the sole, extending into the interior cavity of the golf club head, and extending lengthwise substantially in a heel-toe direction;
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- a mass body, attached to the golf club head body at a forward portion of the sole, wherein the mass body has a mass between 20 grams and 80 grams,
- wherein the mass body extends from a first location, on a heel-side of the sole, to a second location, on a toe-side of the sole,
- wherein the first location is at least as far heel-ward as a toewardmost portion of the recessed port and the second location is toeward of the threaded opening,
- wherein the first location is heelward of a heelwardmost portion of the channel and the second location is toeward of a toewardmost portion of the channel, and
- wherein a minimum length of a coefficient of restitution (COR) feature of the channel is no less than 30 millimeters.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.