Golf club
OwnerJames T. Mooreinventor
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Abstract
A putter as disclosed which has a multi-faceted sole portion for facilitating accurate positionment of the club with respect to the ground and has a weight distribution with the weight concentrated in the center near the ball striking face decreasing rearwardly and having recesses of reduced weight adjacent the central portion. Outboard weighted portions balance the club and reduce the tendency of the club to rotate. The sole has a number of surface portions allowing versatility in putter positionment by the golfer. Visualization aids are provided on the upper surface of the club.
Claims19
A golf club head comprising:
- a body having the shape of the letter `B` including a ball striking face, a sole and outboard heel and toe regions and formed with relatively dense weighted regions and reduced weighted recesses for locating the center of gravity of the club at a selected elevated central location;
- weighted portions about the center of gravity laterally distribute the weight of the club in gradually increasing amounts outboard of the center of the club;
- a central weighted portion perpendicular to the club face and aligned with the center of gravity;
- and a trailing portion for balancing the face of the club around the center of gravity:
- and means for visualizing the optimum impact point on the face of the club.
A golf club putter comprising:
- a body forming the shape of a `B` having a heel portion and a toe portion, a striking face extending from the heel portion to the toe portion and a sole;
- the club having a pair of recesses formed in an upper surface thereof along lateral sides of the center of the club extending rearwardly in a direction perpendicular to the face of the club head;
- the body having relatively dense weighted regions including a transverse portion in the front along the striking face and an intersecting trailing central portion extending rearwardly of the striking face;
- lateral body mass being positioned outboard of the recesses and extending rearwardly;
- the body having an elevated center of gravity located within the central region where the transverse and trailing portions intersect;
- and a weight distribution such that the club weight decreases in the direction extending transversely and laterally from the center of gravity.
A golf club head comprising:
- a body having a ball striking face, an upper surface, a continuous sole surface extending to outboard heel and toe regions, said body including relatively dense weighted regions and formed with reduced weighted recesses for locating the center of gravity of the club at a selected elevated central location;
- the weighted regions include curvelinear portions outboard of the reduced weighted recesses about the center of gravity to laterally distribute the weight of the club head in gradually increasing amounts outboard of the center thereof;
- the weighted portions of the club head further include an elongated central weighted portion extending between the sole and the upper surface perpendicular to the face and aligned with the center of gravity;
- a trailing portion of the central weighted portion for balancing the face around the center of gravity and including means in the upper surface for visualizing the optimum impact point on the face.
A golf club putter comprising:
- a body having a heel portion and a toe portion, a ball striking face extending from the heel portion to the toe portion and an upper surface and a continuous lower surface including a sole;
- the club having a pair of recesses formed in the upper surface thereof along lateral sides of the center of the club extending rearwardly in a direction perpendicular to the face;
- the body having relatively dense weighted regions of body mass including a transverse portion adjacent the ball striking face and an intersecting trailing central portion extending rearwardly of the ball striking face forming a `T` shape;
- and an outboard portion of lateral weights being positioned outboard of the recesses and extending rearwardly and curving laterally outwardly of the trailing central portion;
- the body having an elevated center of gravity located within the central region where the transverse and trailing portions intersect;
- and a weight distribution such that the club weight decreases in a direction extending transversely and laterally from the center of gravity.
A golf club head having a ball striking face, a continuous sole and outboard heel and toe regions and formed with relatively dense weighted regions and reduced weighted recesses for locating the center of gravity of the club at a selected elevated central location;
- the weighted regions including weighted portions about the center of gravity to laterally distribute the weight of the club in gradually increasing amounts outboard of the center of the club, a central weighted portion perpendicular to the club face and aligned with the center of gravity, and a trailing portion for balancing the face of the club head around the center of gravity;
- and means aligned with the center of gravity of the club head for defining the optimum impact point on the face of the club, the club having the shape of a `B` with a cusp in the trailing portion.
A golf club putter comprising:
- a body having a heel portion and a toe portion, a striking face extending from the heel portion to the toe portion and a sole;
- the club having a pair of relatively closely spaced recesses formed in an upper surface thereof along lateral sides of the center of the club extending rearwardly in a direction perpendicular to the face;
- the body having relatively dense weighted regions including a transverse portion in the front along the striking face and an intersecting trailing central portion extending rearwardly of the ball striking face forming a `T` therewith;
- lateral body mass being positioned outboard of the recesses and extending rearwardly, forming the shape of a `B`;
- the body having an elevated center of gravity located within the central region where the transverse and trailing portions intersect, and a weight distribution such that the club weight decreases in a direction extending transversely and laterally from the center of gravity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.