Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.

Koichi Yamawaki

Franck Dumontier

Jean-Marc Guibaud

Mike Peters

The invention relates to a metal head for a golf club of the 'wood' type, which is provided with a body, and optionally a hosel, the body including one part that is sandblasted or covered with paint, and one part that is polished. The polished part corresponds at least to the surface subjected principally to friction with the ground, and the other part corresponds at least to the surface of the body visible to the golfer when he or she addresses the ball, except for a lower polished zone of the front face, which extends from the striking edge and whose boundary with the upper sandblasted or paint-covered zone forms a substantially horizontal line of demarcation separating the face, when the head rests on the ground for the address of the ball.

Golf club head

Set of wood-type golf clubs, in which each head (1) comprises at least one lower wall, or sole plate (6), and a hitting wall (4) inclined at an angle of loft (.alpha.) in relation to a plane of reference (P). The intersection of the walls (4) and (6) forms a leading edge (7) having a radius (R), and this radius (R) increases as the angle of loft (.alpha.) increases.

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Chiba, Japan

Koichi Yamawaki