Patent ID: 6152833
Filing Date: 2000-11-28
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A golf club head construction including a face wall made of wood lamination sections having a wood grain and defining a periphery, said face wall being shaped for providing a ball strike face having a heel, a toe, and a long axis extending between the heel and toe, a shell defining a club head having a selected wall thickness to provide light weight, said shell having a periphery that conforms to the periphery of said face wall, and a bonding material securing the face wall to the shell around the periphery of the face wall, said face wall having a face area exceeding 5.3 square inches, and wherein said lamination sections are perpendicular to said long axis and are made up of at least three separate plies of wood, having grain parallel to the plies, at least two first plies secured to each other and having a wood grain extending generally parallel to an up-down direction of the club face section and an additional ply adhered to one of the first plies and having a wood grain which is generally horizontal.