Patent ID: 6623375
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A golf club iron comprising:a club head having a generally planar front face for impacting a ball, a rear face opposite to the front face, two sides, a top surface and a bottom surface; the front face defining a horizontal top edge at the top surface and a horizontal bottom edge at the bottom surface; the front face having an imaginary transverse line lying in the plane of the front face across the width of the face equidistant between the top and bottom edges; the front face being symmetrical about an imaginary upright center line at right angles to the transverse line and equidistant between the sides so that the upright center line and the transverse center line intersect at an imaginary center point of the front face; the club head defining an imaginary horizontal center line at right angles to the transverse line passing through the imaginary center point of the front face; a tubular shaft hosel integrally attached to the rear face of the club head so that a front side of the hosel is integral with the rear face and supports the club head in front of the hosel; a shaft attached to the hosel so that an axis of the tubular hosel at the club head is coaxial with an axis of the shaft; the hosel being arranged on the club head so that the shaft extends at an angle less than ninety degrees to the transverse line which angle is arranged so that the club is intended to be swung in an iron driving action to cause impact; the front face lying in a plane at an angle to a vertical plane containing the transverse line so as to provide a loft angle for driving the ball during impact; the club head being shaped such that a center of gravity thereof lies substantially on said imaginary horizontal center line rearwardly of the front face; the hosel being arranged so that the axis of the shaft and the hosel intersect the imaginary horizontal center line at a position reward of the center of gravity.