Abstract:
An iron type golf club head which comprises a head body having a ball-striking front face, a rear side, a top, a bottom, a toe, and a heel; a recess formed in the head body proximate the head body rear side and bottom; and an inset positioned in the recess; the head body having a weight W.sub.1 and the inset having a weight W.sub.2, and wherein W.sub.2 /(W.sub.1 +W.sub.2) is between about 0.25 and 0.90.
Abstract:
A golf club head comprising a shell having toe and heel portions; a front wall defining a forward facing ball-striking face; and top and bottom walls, the bottom wall being metallic and having at least one local zone of relatively greater thickness, remaining extent of the bottom wall having thickness substantially less than the local zone of relatively greater thickness.
Abstract:
A golf club head having a body defining a heel, toe, top wall, bottom wall, and a front wall defining an upwardly and rearwardly inclined front face and rear face, comprising a body defining a forwardly extending main recess located rearwardly of the front wall; the body also defining an undercut recess located rearwardly of the front wall rear face and extending outwardly from the main recess toward the top wall and toward the bottom wall, proximate the rear face; the head having rearward projection with downward thickening between the top wall and the main recess, and rearwardly of the undercut recess that extends toward the top wall, the undercut recess that extends toward the top wall having forward and rearward sides that extend generally parallel to one another; the rearward projection having a lower surface facing the main recess, the lower surface intersecting the rearward side of the undercut recess at an acute angle.
Abstract:
A golf club head comprising toe and heel portions, a front wall defining a ball-striking face, and top and bottom walls, the bottom wall characterized as having a medial ridge, and as forming two shallow recesses, one recess between the ridge and the heel portion, and the other recess between the ridge and the toe portion, the recesses everywhere spaced rearwardly from the front wall, the one recess having an arcuate peripheral edge generally convex toward the heel portion, and the other recess having an arcuate peripheral edge generally convex toward the toe portion.
Abstract:
A golf club head comprising a shell having toe and heel portions, a rear wall, a front wall defining a ball-striking face, and top and bottom walls, the bottom wall characterized as having a medial ridge, and as forming two dished shallow recesses, one recess between the ridge and the heel portion, and the other recess between the ridge and the toe portion, the recesses spaced rearwardly from the front wall, the one recess having an arcuate peripheral edge generally convex toward the heel portion, and the other recess having an arcuate peripheral edge generally convex toward the toe portion, the recesses being located in substantially mirror imaged positions with respect to a forwardly extending vertical plane bisecting the ridge, the head, when viewed toward the bottom wall, presents a peripheral outline which, at the toe and rear of the head, has substantial spacing from the other dished shallow recess.
Abstract:
In combination a golf club head having a front wall, the front wall having a rear side, and a composite adhered to the rear side, the composite including a selected swing weight adjusting intermediary layer, and a non-metallic rearwardly facing layer providing identification graphics which are rearwardly visible.
Abstract:
In a putter head, the combination including a longitudinally elongated putter body in the form of a bar having a forward face for striking a golf ball, and rear side, top and bottom walls, a toe and a heel, between peripherally weighted toe and heel regions; a main recess sunk forwardly in the rear side; and an undercut recess extending outwardly from the inner extent of the main recess whereby a reduced thickness plate is formed between the recesses and the front face.
Abstract:
A golf club having a head and a shaft defining an axis, the head having a heel, a toe, a top, and a bottom, an improved connection of the shaft to the head comprising a socket associated with the head, the socket having inner wall structure extending in the direction of the axis, and with annular wall portions relatively angled at axially successive locations in the direction, at least one of the wall portions providing a locally camming surface; the shaft having a lower end portion forcibly received endwise into the socket, and collapsed at least in part toward the axis in response to the forcible reception of the shaft lower end portion into the socket, and against the camming surface; the wall structure forming with the shaft lower end portion a clearance axially offset from-the camming surface for reception of adhesive to contact the shaft lower end portion and to cure and adhere the shaft lower end portion to the wall structure.
Abstract:
A golf club head having a body defining a heel, toe, top wall, sole and a front wall defining an upwardly and rearwardly inclined front face and rear face, the body defining a forwardly extending main recess located rearwardly of the front wall; and the body also defining an undercut recess located directly rearwardly of the front wall rear face and extending outwardly from the main recess toward the top wall and toward the bottom wall, adjacent the rear face, the rear face having a slant height dimension D.sub.1 between uppermost and lowermost extents of the undercut recess in a vertical plane, and the front wall having a slant height dimension D.sub.2 between uppermost and lowermost extents thereof in the plane, where:90