Patent ID: 8795102

Claim:
An iron-type golf club head comprising: a ball striking face plate configured for striking a ball; a rear plate opposite the ball striking face plate; a body adjacent to the ball striking face plate, the body including a heel adjacent to a hosel and a toe opposite the heel, the body further having a sole extending rearward from a bottom edge of the ball striking face plate from the heel to the toe, wherein the sole includes a sole width defined as the distance from a sole front edge adjacent to the ball striking face plate and a sole back edge opposite the sole front edge, wherein the sole width has a minimum width of approximately 0.8 inches and a maximum width of approximately 1.2 inches; and an elongated sole channel positioned within the sole, the channel being undercut into the sole and extending along at least a portion of the sole and extending towards the ball striking face, the sole channel having a length defined by the distance from a first end of the sole channel proximate to the heel to a second end of the sole channel proximate to the toe, wherein the length is between approximately two and three inches, and further the sole channel having a depth, the sole channel having a depth defined by the distance from a front edge of the sole channel to a bottom of the sole channel, wherein the depth is between approximately 0.1 inches and 0.2 inches.