Patent ID: 6939247

Claim:
A golf club head comprising: a hollow metal body having a heel end, a toe end, a forward end and a rear end, said hollow metal body including a face proximal the forward end adapted for impacting a golf ball, a crown, a skirt, and a sole plate, the sole plate being smoothly contoured and devoid of any mass concentrations; a hosel adjacent the body heel end for receiving a shaft, said shaft having an axis; said hollow metal body having a volume of greater than 400 cubic centimeters and a center of gravity located generally closer to the heel end than to the toe end and generally nearer the forward end than the rear end; and the center of gravity being located within a region 2.1±2.0 millimeters above a horizontal plane passing through the center of the face, 16.0±4.0 millimeters toward the rear end from a vertical plane containing the shaft axis that is parallel to a horizontal line tangent to the center of the face, and 36.0±6.0 millimeters toward the toe end from a plane containing the shaft axis that is normal to the vertical plane.