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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Nike, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Inventors:
Brian Kammerer, Ft. Worth, TX (US);
David N. Franklin, Granbury, TX (US);
John Hatfield, Granbury, TX (US);
Assignee:
Nike, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 53/16 (2006.01); A63B 53/14 (2015.01); A63B 53/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 53/145 (2013.01); A63B 53/007 (2013.01); A63B 53/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A golf club includes a tubular shaft, a golf club head affixed to a first end of the shaft, and a grip disposed about a second end of the shaft. The golf club head is a putter head having a loft angle of from about 0 degrees to about 6 degrees and a mass of from about 360 grams to about 400 grams. A movable weight is disposed within a hollow recess of the shaft and within a grip portion of the club. The movable weight is configured to be selectively repositionable within the grip portion by a user, and has a mass of from about 60 grams to about 80 grams.