Patent ID: 6860822
Filing Date: 2005-03-01
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A putter head comprising: a toe portion; a heel portion; a generally vertically extending wall, the wall having a front strike face, a rear portion, an upper layer, and a lower layer, the upper layer, the lower layer and the rear portion each extending from the heel portion to the toe portion to define a recess rearwardly extending into the wall from the strike face, the rear portion of the wall being formed with variable thickness thereby providing the recess with a variable rearward depth; a sole portion rearwardly extending from a lower region of the wall, the sole portion having a rearmost surface; and a single, one-piece insert substantially filling the recess and connected to the wall, the insert having a front facing surface, a top surface, a bottom surface and a rear surface, generally the entire surface area of the front facing surface of the insert being exposed, the top and bottom surfaces being substantially covered by the wall, the front facing surface of the insert being substantially coplanar with the front strike face, the insert including a center portion having a first rearward depth, the putter head having a second rearward depth measured from the front strike face of the front wall to the rearmost surface of the sole portion, the first depth being less than fifty percent of the second depth.