Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.

Teradata Us, Inc.

Oakville Hong Kong Company Limited

David Anderson

Benoit Vincent

Todd P Beach

Bret H Wahl

Bill Price

Kevin R Harper

Kraig Alan Willett

Matthew David Johnson

Matthew Greensmith

Jason Andrew Mata

Brandon H Woolley

Andrew James

Peter J Roberts

Ian C Wright

Charles Edward Golden

Michael Scott Burnett

James Edward Michael Cornish

Thomas Anthony Kroll

Stephen Anthony Hough

Nicholas Allan Graham Robbie

Sean Toulon

Nick Frame

Jose Miraflor

Ian Wright

Stephen A Kraus

Haipeng Hu

Richard L Rugge

Yong Ling

Yuchang Wu

Dana Ehyaei

Hsaioho Edward Tung

Ben Raymond

Gary Gallagher

A J Bonar

A golf ball having a North pole and a South pole, an equator and a primary meridian, the equator and primary meridian divide the ball into North, South, East and West hemispheres, and Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest quadrants. A grid pattern projected on the ball surface divides the ball laterally and longitudinally into a number of overlapping zones. The dimples within the zones have average depthsex,sx,px,ei,si andpi and selected values of Δe, Δs and Δp which are the difference between the minimum and maximum values of the relative ratios of the dimple depths,ex/ei,sx/siandpx/pidetermined when the ball is rotated by a value of θ from 0 to 360° about its polar axis.

Golf ball

Golf club heads include white diffusing top surfaces to aid in club head alignment. Wood type club heads also include a dark diffusing club face so that a crown/face border is emphasized. Scorelines in wood type clubs can be provided with an intermediate contrast surface, and can be displaced from club face center to accommodate player perception when confronted with a white diffusing crown. Putter heads can include dark diffusing alignment lines, and iron-type club heads can include white diffusing surfaces at a sole portion of a club face, at a top line, or a top portion of a club face.

Contrast-enhanced golf club heads

A golf club head includes a golf club body including a crown, a sole, and a skirt connected between the crown and the sole, the golf club body including a front including a leading edge and a back including a trailing edge, and a hosel connected to the golf club body; a face connected to the front of the golf club body, the face including a geometric center, the golf club head including modifiable boundary conditions.

Golf club

The present embodiments provide systems and methods for aggregating measurements captured by different technologies during a golf swing. By capturing measurements using different technologies, more accurate measurements may be provided to a user by selecting from the measurements, offsetting measurements based on the technologies used, and aligning measurements between devices. Further, by aggregating measurements received from different devices, additional features and functionality may be provided to the user that is absent from any one device used alone. Additionally, by storing the aggregated measurements, users, club fitters and instructors may access and leverage larger databases of measurements to better understand the user's golf swing and to provide better recommendations and instruction to the user.

Systems and methods for integrating measurements captured during a golf swing

Golf club with through slot coefficient restitution feature in sole

Golf club with modifiable sole and crown features adjacent to leading edge

A method is disclosed for matching a test golfer with a particular golf club selected from a group of golf clubs having a plurality of styles. The method utilizes data set derived in an initial procedure in which the club style preferences for each of a large number of pre-test golfers is recorded and correlated with a set of performance parameters for the golf swings of such pre-test golfers. This data enables the pre-test golfers to be classified into subgroups, in which golfers within the same subgroup generally prefer the same club style and golfers in different subgroups generally prefer different club styles. After this data set has been established, the test golfer takes a golf swing with a golf club, while performance parameters for the swing are measured. Based on the measured performance parameters and the previously established data set, the test golfer is classified according to swing type, and the optimum golf-club is then selected from the plurality of styles of golf clubs.

Method for matching a golfer with a particular club style

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Palatine, IL, United States of America

David Anderson