Patent ID: 6899638

Claim:
The golf club comprising: a head of metal having a face; a flexural range, defined in said face, where the quantity of flexure in a direction perpendicular to said face is at least 45% and not more than 95% of the maximum quantity of vertical flexure of said face; and a tapered part, wherein said flexural range is arranged according to a hitting point distribution range of a player in said face, wherein the region between the outer periphery of said flexural range and the outer periphery of said face is divided into a plurality of non-concentric peripheral regions, wherein said tapered part is provided between said flexural range and said peripheral regions, the thickness of said flexural range is larger than the thicknesses of said peripheral regions, the thickness of said tapered part is gradually reduced toward said peripheral regions, the ratio of reduction of the thickness of said tapered part varies with the distance between a center of said flexural range and the outer periphery of said face, and the thickness of said peripheral region having a relatively long distance between the outer periphery of said flexural range and the outer periphery of said face is larger than the thickness of said peripheral region having a relatively short distance between the outer periphery of said flexural range and the outer periphery of said face.