Patent ID: 9522312
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: A63B,B21D,B23P,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method of making a golf club head, comprising: providing a golf club head body having a metallic face; milling a plurality of elongate grooves in the face, wherein the grooves extend between a heel portion of the body and a toe portion of the body, wherein the grooves have a longitudinal axis and at least one groove is curved at toe and heel ends about axes of rotation that are perpendicular to the longitudinal axis so that a length of a maximum depth portion of the at least one groove is shorter than the overall length of the groove; pressing a die into the metallic face of the golf club head body to displace material of the face, wherein the die includes a plurality of projections including a plurality of texturing features, and wherein pressing the texturing features into the face forms surface texturing between adjacent grooves in the metallic face.