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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2003
Applicant:
Masayoshi Nishio, Kobe, JP;
Inventor:
Masayoshi Nishio, Kobe, JP;
Assignee:
SRI Sports Limited, Kobe, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 53/10 (2006.01); A63B 53/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A golf club comprises a club shaft and a hollow club head, wherein the club head has a loft angle of from 14 to 18 degrees, a head volume of not less than 250 cc, and a sweet spot at a vertical distance of from 1 to 5 mm downwards of a face center, and the club shaft has a variable flexural rigidity whose minimum is in a range of from 5 to 10 N·m, and the minimum flexural rigidity occurs in a range between 0% and 40% of the length of the club shaft from the end of the club shaft.