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Golf clubs and methods of manufacture

Golf clubs and methods of manufacture description/claims

This disclosure relates generally to golf club heads, and relates more particularly to golf club heads and methods of manufacturing a golf club head.

Golf clubs and specifically golf club heads of various designs have typically been developed to improve the functionality of a golfer's swing and resulting golf shot. A frequent problem many golfers suffer is their inability or lack of consistency to hit “down” on a ball, that is, to regularly hit the ball squarely. Golf club designs that optimize a golf club's center of gravity position is one recent design trend among golf club manufacturers to counteract this common problem. By positioning the center of gravity towards the bottom of the golf club, this position may induce the golfer during his swing, to hit “down” on the ball, thus, hitting the ball squarely.

The manufacturing of oversized golf clubs having a larger strike face, and subsequently a larger area of impact is another recent design trend among golf club manufacturers. These oversized clubs were designed to accommodate “miss hits” by the golfer. Instead of inducing the golfer to hit the ball squarely by optimizing the club's center of gravity position, these oversized clubs use the larger sweet spot area to accommodate a miss hit ball. Thus, the resulting trajectory of the miss hit ball reacts in a manner as if it were hit squarely.

The general trend by golf club manufacturers is to manufacture irons with an optimized center of gravity, and to manufacture drivers, fairway woods, and utility clubs in an oversized manner. However, a golfer may benefit from a driver, fairway wood, or utility club that, similarly to an iron, incorporates an optimally positioned center of gravity, particularly where the center of gravity is located in the lower portion of the of the club.

Accordingly, golf clubs and their methods of manufacture can lower or further optimize the center of gravity of their golf club heads.

FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view of a golf club showing a front face and top wall of a golf club head of the golf club, according to a first embodiment;

FIG. 2 illustrates a side view of the golf club head showing the center of gravity of the golf club head and various dimensional elements, according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 illustrates a cross section of the golf club head showing various dimensional elements, according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 4 illustrates a side view of the back end of the golf club showing an intersection point, intersection angle, and intersection height, according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 5 illustrates a perspective view of the golf club head showing the bottom wall, according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 6 illustrates a front end view of the golf club head showing the front end and front face, according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 7 illustrates a rear view of the golf club head showing the back end, according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 8 illustrates a top down view of the golf club head showing the top wall, front end, back end, heel end and toe end, according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 9 illustrates a bottom up view of the golf club head showing the bottom wall, according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 10 illustrates a side view of the golf club head showing the heel portion, according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 11 illustrates a side view of the golf club head showing the toe portion, according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 12 illustrates a cross-section view of the exemplary golf club head of FIG. 11 at an address position;

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