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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2001
Mototaka Iwata, Osaka, JP;
Kenji Onoda, Osaka, JP;
Koji Sakai, Osaka, JP;
Yukihiro Teranishi, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Naruo, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhiro Ohmori, Osaka, JP;
Yoshihiro Fujikawa, Osaka, JP;
Mototaka Iwata, Osaka, JP;
Kenji Onoda, Osaka, JP;
Koji Sakai, Osaka, JP;
Yukihiro Teranishi, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Naruo, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhiro Ohmori, Osaka, JP;
Yoshihiro Fujikawa, Osaka, JP;
Mizuno Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The inventive golf club comprises a head of a metal having a face and a flexural range, defined in the face, where the quantity of flexure in a direction perpendicular to the face is at least 45% of the maximum quantity of vertical flexure of the face. The flexural range is arranged in coincidence with a hitting spot distribution range of a player in the face. Alternatively, a flexural range having a spring constant of at least 2 kN/mm and not more than 4 kN/mm is present in the face of the inventive golf club.