Golf putter

• US 8,608,586 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2011
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Parks Designs, LLC
• Original Assignee: Parks Designs, LLC
• Inventors: Parente, Richard E., Parente, Gene, Sacks, Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): BLAU, STEPHEN LUTHER
• Application Number:
  US13/224,309
• Publication Number:
  US 20130059675A1
• Time in Patent Office: 838 Days
• Field of Search: 473/292
• US Class Current: 473/292
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/007 Putters
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/10 Non-metallic shafts
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/14 Handles
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/10 with means for indicating correct holding positions A63B60/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/24 Weighted handles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49 Method of mechanical manufacture

Abstract

A golf club with a club head comprising a body defining a volume, a shaft coupled to the club head, and a balance point established above the sole and no further away from the sole than five inches is provided. A method for creating a club head with enhanced balance point placement can also be provided. The method can include, in a golf club formed from a club head coupled to a shaft, moving a balance point from a position between no less than seven inches and no more than eighteen inches measured from the sole along a longitudinal axis of the shaft between a butt of the shaft and a sole of the club head to a position no further away from the sole than five inches measured from the sole along a longitudinal axis of the shaft.

Claims

1. A golf club comprising:

a club head comprising a body defining a volume, the body comprising;

a hitting face;

a sole located at a bottom portion of the body;

a leading edge defined by an intersection of the hitting face and the sole;

a trailing edge located on the sole opposite the leading edge;

a toe disposed between the leading edge and the trailing edge above the sole at a distal end of the body; and

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a heel disposed between the leading edge and the trailing edge above the sole at an end of the body opposite the toe;

a shaft comprising a tip and a butt opposite the tip, the shaft being coupled to the club head at the tip, the shaft comprising a mass of between no less than ten grams and no more than forty nine grams; and

,

a balance point established above the sole and no further away from the sole than five inches, the five inches measured from the sole along a longitudinal axis of the shaft.

2. The golf club of claim 1, further comprising a grip coupled to the butt of the shaft, the grip comprising a mass of no less than four grams and no more than twenty-five grams.

3. The golf club of claim 2, wherein the combination of the shaft, the grip, and the club head comprises a mass of no less than three hundred seventy grams and no more than four hundred sixty six grams.

4. The golf club of claim 1, wherein the club head has a mass of no less than about three hundred thirty grams and no more than about three hundred seventy grams.

5. The golf club of claim 1, wherein the club head further comprises a neck, the neck connected to the body of the club head.