Patent ID: 11857849
Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. A method of manufacturing a golf club head, the method comprising:
(a) providing an intermediate golf club head body that, when oriented in a reference position, has a heel portion, a toe portion, a top portion, a bottom portion, and a striking face having a striking face periphery;
(b) texturing a first region of the striking face forming a plurality of grooves;
(c) texturing a second region of the striking face subsequent to step (b), the second region partially overlapping the first region thereby dividing the first region into an overlapped sub-region and a non-overlapped sub-region, wherein, in step (c), the second region is milled at a depth thereby removing material forming the plurality of grooves located within the overlapped sub-region; and
(d) forming a plurality of scorelines in the striking face, wherein:
a first virtual vertical plane perpendicular to the striking face passes through a toe-wardmost extent of the scorelines; and
a second virtual vertical plane parallel to the first virtual vertical plane passes through a heel-wardmost extent of the scorelines,
wherein, the non-overlapped sub-region of the first region is located entirely toe-ward of the first vertical plane.