Hybrid golf club with improved weight distribution for maximum hitting improvement and alignment configurations

• US 20070149309A1
• Filed: 12/27/2005
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: John Ford
• Original Assignee: John Ford
• Inventors: Ford, John
• Application Number:
  US11/318,320
• Publication Number:
  US 20070149309A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/328
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0441 with visual indicators for aligning the golf club
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/045 Strengthening ribs
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0462 characterised by tapering thickness of the impact face plate
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/047 iron-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/52 with slits

Abstract

A hybrid golf club head with an improved weight distribution to maximize the weight behind the golf ball on impact, an improved sole plate for facilitating the proper movement of the golf club through the hitting zone with the ball, and a specialized alignment system to insure that the golfer using the club head is properly aligning the head with respect to the golf ball, and the target.

Claims

1. A hybrid golf club having a club face, a sole, and a center of percussion, with a head shaped like a wood, having a rearward configured surface gently curved from the face in a partial semi-circle, which is characterized by,

a plurality of parallel lines extending substantially perpendicular to the club face and providing alignment characteristics of the club face to the intended target, and

a tapered thickness to the rearward portion of the sole centrally aligned to the center of percussion, extending about one and one-half to two inches across the center of percussion and about three-quarters to one and one-half inches toward the club face to provide a focus of weight momentum to the club face at about the center of percussion.

2. A hybrid golf club according to claim 1 wherein there are strengthening ribs formed into the inside surface of the club face to strengthen the surface and facilitate transfer of energy from the surface to the golf ball.

3. A hybrid golf club according to claim 1 wherein a recessed groove is provided in the bottom center of the sole plate to facilitate guiding the sole plate through high grass and in a divot by having alignment through the center of percussion from the face to the rearward flange of the wood-shaped configuration.

4. A hybrid golf club according to claim 3, which includes dished cavities on the right and left sides of the alignment groove of claim 3, which extend from the bottom of the face to near the top of the face at the rearward portion of the wood-shaped club surface.

5. A hybrid golf club according to claim 1 wherein the plurality of parallel lines is at least three in number and extends over at least one-third of the central surface of the width of the face of the hybrid.

6. A hybrid golf club having a club face, a sole, and a center of percussion, with a head shaped like a wood, having a rearward configured surface gently curved from the face in a partial semi-circle, which is characterized by,

a plurality of parallel lines extending substantially perpendicular to the club face and providing alignment characteristics of the club face to the intended target.

7. A hybrid golf club according to claim 6 which includes a line extending parallel to the club face across nearly the width of the face and intersecting and perpendicular to the parallel lines.