Patent ID: 7438649

Claim:
A golf club head of a hollow shell structure, the golf club head comprising: a first member made of a metal, including a face portion and a peripheral portion continuous with the face portion; a metal sole plate extending in a front-rear direction of the golf club head on a sole portion and independent from the first member; and a second member made of a fiber reinforced plastic, wherein at least a central portion of the face portion is made of an amorphous metal, other portions of the first member are made of a crystalline metal, and the first member and the metal sole plate have a gap therebetween, and are affixed together by the second member, wherein the gap between the first member and the metal sole plate is formed to be in a range from 4 mm to 12 mm, and the second member is exposed outward at the gap and formed with a recess that is concaved upward from a bottom face of the metal sole plate at the gap.