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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2002
Jeffrey Vincent Bamber, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Pelican Golf, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
Improved perimeter weighted golf clubs are disclosed. The perimeter weighted golf clubs of the present invention are provided with improved structures for distributing the weight at the perimeter of the club head. In one embodiment, the club is an iron-type golf club having a club head that includes a weighted perimeter portion and at least two spaced apart ribs on the back surface of the club head that extend from an upper portion of the club head toward at least a part of the weighted perimeter portion of the club head and the ribs are oriented generally perpendicular to the upper edge portion of the club head. In one version of this embodiment, the ribs have at least one thinned region therebetween that is in the form of a channel on the back surface of the club head.