Patent ID: 8920258

Claim:
A golf club head that, when oriented in a reference position, comprises: a main body having a front portion, a rear portion, a top portion, a sole portion, a heel portion, a toe portion, and a front recess extending from the front portion toward the rear portion, the front recess including a flange, the rear portion including a perimeter-weighting element; a striking face insert secured within the front recess and having a front surface and a rear surface, the striking face insert being generally coplanar with an imaginary striking face plane; a face center located on the front surface of the striking face insert; a rear cavity at least partially delimited by the perimeter-weighting element and the rear surface of the striking face insert; a rear insert secured to the rear surface of the striking face insert; and an imaginary vertical center plane perpendicular to the striking face plane and passing through the face center, wherein, in an imaginary horizontal plane passing through a portion of the rear insert: the rear insert comprises a heelwardmost point and a toewardmost point opposite the heelwardmost point; and proximate the heel portion, the heelwardmost point of the rear insert is spaced further from the center plane than a minimum distance between the flange and the center plane, and the club head comprises an auxiliary recess that intersects with the rear cavity and extends outward from the rear cavity toward at least one of the top portion, the sole portion, the heel portion, and the toe portion.