Golf club

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10994180-B2
Application number	US-202016839264-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 3, 2020
Priority date	Apr 26, 2019
Publication date	May 4, 2021
Grant date	May 4, 2021

Abstract

A golf club includes a head; a shaft having a tip end and a butt end; a grip; and a weight member that is located in a butt end region having a distance from a butt end of the grip of less than or equal to 100 mm. The grip and the weight member constitute a grip-weight portion. The shaft, the grip, and the weight member constitute a shaft-grip-weight portion. The shaft has a weight Ws of less than or equal to 40 g. The shaft has a flex point ratio of less than or equal to 50%. The grip-weight portion has a weight W 2 of greater than or equal to 40 g. A ratio W 1 /W 3 of a weight W 1 of the butt end region to a weight W 3 of the shaft-grip-weight portion is greater than or equal to 0.40.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A golf club comprising:
a head;
a shaft including a tip end and a butt end;
a grip; and
a weight member that is located in a butt end region having a distance from a butt end of the grip of less than or equal to 100 mm, wherein
the grip and the weight member constitute a grip-weight portion,
the shaft, the grip, and the weight member constitute a shaft-grip-weight portion,
the shaft has a weight of less than or equal to 40 g,
the shaft has a flex point ratio fp of less than or equal to 50%,
the grip-weight portion has a weight of greater than or equal to 40 g,
W 1 /W 3 is greater than or equal to 0.40, where W 1 represents a weight (g) of the butt end region, and W 3 represents a weight (g) of the shaft-grip-weight portion, and
the flex point ratio fp (%) is calculated by the following formula (1):
fp =[ f 2/( f 1+ f 2)]×100  (1),

where f 1 represents a forward flex of the shaft, and f 2 represents a backward flex of the shaft.

2. The golf club according to claim 1 , wherein the golf club has a club vibration frequency of less than or equal to 215 cpm.

3. The golf club according to claim 2 , wherein the golf club has a length of greater than or equal to 45 inches and less than or equal to 46 inches.

4. The golf club according to claim 1 , wherein the golf club has a weight of greater than or equal to 275 g and less than or equal to 300 g.

5. The golf club according to claim 1 , wherein the head has a weight of greater than or equal to 195 g.

6. The golf club according to claim 5 , wherein the golf club has a weight of less than or equal to 290 g.

7. The golf club according to claim 1 , wherein the shaft has a shaft torque of less than or equal to 7.0°.

8. The golf club according to claim 1 , wherein the grip has a weight of less than or equal to 33 g.

9. The golf club according to claim 8 , wherein the grip-weight portion has a gravity center ratio T 2 of less than or equal to 28%, the gravity center ratio T 2 of the grip-weight portion being calculated by the following formula: T 2 =(D 2 /L 2 )×100, where D 2 represents a distance from the butt end of the grip to a center of gravity of the grip-weight portion, and L 2 represents a length of the grip.

10. The golf club according to claim 9 , wherein the weight member has a length in an axial direction of greater than or equal to 5 mm and less than or equal to 50 mm.

11. The golf club according to claim 10 , wherein a distance between a tip-end-side end of the weight member and the butt end of the grip is greater than or equal to 15 mm and less than or equal to 70 mm.

12. The golf club according to claim 9 , wherein
the grip includes a grip body portion that has a cylindrical shape, and an end cap portion that closes an opening of the grip body portion on one end side and forms a butt end face of the grip, and
a part of the grip body portion is made of a foam rubber.

13. The golf club according to claim 9 , wherein
the grip includes a grip body portion that has a cylindrical shape, and an end cap portion that closes an opening of the grip body portion on one end side and forms a butt end face of the grip, and
the end cap portion is made of a non-foam rubber exclusively, and the grip body portion includes a foam rubber portion made of a foam rubber.

14. The golf club according to claim 9 , wherein
the grip includes a grip body portion that has a cylindrical shape, and an end cap portion that closes an opening of the grip body portion on one end side and forms a butt end face of the grip, and
the end cap portion has a specific gravity greater than an average specific gravity of the grip body portion.

15. The golf club according to claim 1 , wherein the grip has a weight of less than or equal to 31 g.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Rubber Ind

Inventors

• Takasu Kenji
• Nakamura Takashi
• Mizutani Naruhiro
• KOHNO Daisuke

Classifications

• A63B60/54

  with means for damping vibrations · CPC title

• A63B60/08

  characterised by the material · CPC title

• A63B53/14 Primary

  Handles · CPC title

• A63B2102/32

  Golf · CPC title

• A63B60/24 Primary

  Weighted handles · CPC title