Golf club
AssigneeRoger Cleveland Golf Co., Inc.
InventorRoger Cleveland
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Abstract
A golf club head including a sloping front face having a grooved striking zone for impacting a golf ball, a toe, and a heel, said face including in addition to said striking zone a wide zone adjacent said toe and a narrow zone adjacent said heel, and at its base a lower, leading edge; and an integral hosel segment including a bore for receiving a shaft; wherein said hosel extends from said narrow zone between said heel portion and said striking zone, and the axis of said hosel bore is spaced from the tip end of said heel by a distance of at least 8 mm. Preferably, the back surface of the club head has perimeter weighting which is redistributed along the upper edge of the club to the heel and toe portions.
Claims20
An iron or wood type golf club head comprising:
- a sloping front face having a grooved striking zone for impacting a golf ball, a toe, and a heel, said face comprising in addition to said striking zone a wide zone adjacent said toe and a narrow zone adjacent said heel, and at its base a lower, leading edge;
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- an integral hosel segment including a bore for receiving a shaft;
- wherein said hosel extends from said narrow zone between said heel portion and said striking zone, and the axis of said hosel bore is spaced from the tip end of said heel by a distance of at least 8 mm.
A perimeter-weighted, iron-type golf club head comprising a hosel extending from a head body, a front face having a striking zone for impacting a golf ball, a back surface, a toe portion, a heel portion, a sole, and a top surface extending from said heel portion to said toe portion, said back surface having a rearwardly extending ridge which merges with said top surface and extends rearwardly at least along the upper edge of said back surface from said heel portion to said toe portion, wherein said ridge substantially continuously decreases in thickness, when measured in a direction substantially perpendicular to said front face, from said heel and toe portions to a thinner central region thereof, such that the mass of said ridge is concentrated in the heel and toe portions thereof.
A perimeter-weighted, iron-type golf club head comprising
- a sloping front face having a grooved striking zone for impacting a golf ball, a back surface, a toe portion, a heel portion, a sole, and a top convexly curved surface extending from said heel portion to said toe portion,
- said front face comprising in addition to said striking zone a wide zone adjacent said toe portion and a narrow zone adjacent said heel portion,
- said back surface having a rearwardly extending ridge which merges with said top surface and extends rearwardly at least along the upper edge of said back surface from said heel portion to said toe portion, wherein said ridge decreases in thickness, when measured in a direction substantially perpendicular to said front face, from said heel and toe portions to a thinner central region thereof, such that the mass of said ridge is concentrated in the heel and toe portions thereof, and
- an integral hosel segment including a bore for receiving a shaft, said hosel segment extending from said narrow zone between said heel portion and said striking zone, and the axis of said hosel bore being spaced from the tip end of said heel by a distance of at least 8 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.