Patent ID: 6692376
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A golf club comprising:an elongate shaft having a player gripping end and a clubhead end; and a clubhead extending from said clubhead end, said clubhead having a heel, a toe, a sole and a top and a striking face therebetween, said clubhead including: a shell including a distal toe portion, a distal heel portion spaced from said toe portion, surfaces of said distal toe portion and distal heel portion defining surface portions of said sole, top and striking surface, an elongate medial portion extending between said toe portion and said heel portion comprising a web, the material of said shell having relatively high mass density and the size and shape of said heel portion and said toe portion being selected to provide mass concentration at the heel end and the toe end of said clubhead; and an elongate body and a hosel, formed of relatively low mass density material, said body extending longitudinally between said distal shell portions and defining a central striking surface portion of said striking face and an upper surface portion of said top, said hosel extending upwardly from said upper surface, and said web being in said body; and a hosel armature embedded in said body, encased in said hosel and extending upwardly from said upper surface into said clubhead end of said shaft.