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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2001
Jeffrey D. Sheets, Aurora, IL (US);
Carl E. Scheie, Gold Canyon, AZ (US);
Douglas J. Thiel, Streamwood, IL (US);
Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An integral, hollow metal golf club head including a sole plate, a crown, a face, first and second side walls and a rear wall. The club head includes The sole plate has a rear sole portion. The crown has a rear crown portion. The upwardly and substantially vertically extends from the rear sole portion to the rear crown portion. The rear wall and the face connect the sole plate to the crown. The sole plate has a substantially planar central portion positioned between first and second outwardly and upwardly curved side portions. The central portion rearwardly extends from the face to the rear wall. The sole plate has first and second shoulders formed by the rearward extension of the central portion beyond the first and second rearmost points of the first and second side portions, respectively.