Golf club sets

• US 5,333,860 A
• Filed: 09/10/1993
• Issued: 08/02/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yokohama Rubber Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yokohama Rubber Company Limited
• Inventors: Onozato, Atsushi, Yamamoto, Shinji, Nishimura, Toshinori, Asabuki, Hideyo, Kawada, Kazuo, Saito, Shinkichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Stoll, William E.
• Application Number:
  US08/118,772
• Time in Patent Office: 326 Days
• Field of Search: 273/77 R, 273/77 A, 273/167 G, 273/167 R, 273/80 A, 273/80 C, 273/77 A
• US Class Current: 473/290
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/00 Golf clubs
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/005 Club sets

Abstract

A golf club set consisting of a plurality of golf clubs having a series of continuous club numbers, characterized in that an angle of centroid defined as an angle described between an extension line of a face of a club head and a perpendicular passing through a center axis of a club shaft when the club shaft of each of the golf clubs is placed on a horizontal table with the club head thereof being suspended freely, is smaller for the golf clubs having higher club numbers and progressively larger in the order of decreasing club numbers among a plurality of the golf clubs.

Claims

1. A golf club set comprising a plurality of golf clubs having a series of individual club numbers, characterized in that an angle of centroid, defined as an angle subtended by a toe-heel line at the bottom of a striking face of a club head and a vertical plane containing a center axis of a club shaft attached to the club head when the club shaft is supported horizontally with the club head thereof being suspended freely, increases in the order of decreasing club numbers among the plurality of said golf clubs.

2. A golf club set according to claim 1, wherein the increment of difference in the angle of centroid between said golf clubs having consecutive club numbers is constant throughout said plurality of said golf clubs.

3. A golf club set according to claim 1, wherein at least some of consecutively numbered golf clubs in the golf club set each include a crank-shaped hosel for connecting the club head and club shaft thereof so that a connection of said hosel to said club shaft and a connection of said hosel to said club head are offset in the direction of said toe-heel line by an offset distance L between a center axis of said connection to said club head and a center axis of said connection to said club shaft, the offset distance L being progressively greater in the order of decreasing club numbers among said at least some of said golf clubs.

4. A golf club set according to claim 3, wherein said offset distance is 16 mm maximum.

5. A golf club set according to claim 1, wherein a group of the plurality of said golf clubs comprises iron type golf clubs.

6. A golf club set according to claim 5, wherein said iron type golf clubs comprise a sub-group of non-metallic clubs having lower club numbers and a sub-group of metallic clubs having higher club numbers.

7. A golf club set according to claim 1, wherein a group of the plurality of said golf clubs comprises wood type golf clubs.

8. A golf club set according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of said golf clubs comprises a combination of wood type golf clubs and iron type golf clubs.

9. A golf club set comprising a plurality of golf clubs having a series of individual club numbers, characterized in that an angle of centroid defined as an angle subtended by a toe-heel line at the bottom of a striking face of a club head and a vertical plane containing a center axis of a club shaft attached to the club head when the club shaft is supported horizontally with the club head thereof being suspended freely, is the same for all of the plurality of said golf clubs.

10. A golf club set according to claim 9, wherein the golf clubs each include a crank-shaped hosel for connecting the club head and club shaft thereof so that a connection of said hosel to said club shaft and a connection of said hosel to said club head are offset in the direction of said toe-heel line by an offset distance L between a center axis of said connection to said club head and a center axis of said connection to said club shaft, the offset distance being progressively greater in the order of decreasing club numbers among at least some of said plurality of golf clubs.

11. A golf club set according to claim 10, wherein said offset distance L is 16 mm maximum.

12. A golf club set according to claim 9, wherein a group of the plurality of said golf clubs comprises iron type golf clubs.

13. A golf club set according to claim 12, wherein said iron type golf clubs comprise a sub-group of non metallic clubs having lower club numbers and a sub-group of metallic clubs having higher club numbers.

14. A golf club set according to claim 9, wherein a group of the plurality of said golf clubs comprises wood type golf clubs.

15. A golf club set according to claim 9, wherein the plurality of said golf clubs comprises a combination of wood type golf clubs and iron type golf clubs.

16. A golf club set comprising a plurality of golf clubs having a series of individual club numbers, the plurality of golf clubs including club groups, each such club group having golf clubs with consecutive club numbers, characterized in that an angle of centroid, defined as an angle subtended by a toe-heel line at the bottom of a striking face of a club head and a vertical plane containing a center axis of a club shaft attached to the club head when the club shaft is supported horizontally with the club head thereof being suspended freely, is the same for the golf clubs in each of said club groups, said angles of centroid for the club groups increasing in the order of decreasing club numbers in the plurality of golf clubs.