Metal wood club head and club

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EP 0 927 563 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	27.09.2000 Bulletin 2000/39

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	07.07.1999 Bulletin 1999/27

(21)	Application number: 98310785.5

(22)	Date of filing: 30.12.1998

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: A63B 53/04

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

31.12.1997 US 1705
24.08.1998 US 138913

(71)	Applicant: Orlimar Golf Company
	Hayward, California 9454-3221 (US)

(72)	Inventor:
	Oritz, Jesse J. Hillborough, California (US)

(74)	Representative: Bayliss, Geoffrey Cyril et al
	BOULT WADE TENNANT, Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT London WC1X 8BT (GB)

(54)	Metal wood club head and club

(57) The disclosure relates to a metal wood golf club head (10) comprising having a face (20), sole (13), toe (14), heel (15) and hosel (17). A thin, hard metal insert (18) is joined to an opening in the face (20). A plurality of grooved runners (30 to 32) extend rear-to-front along the sole of the body terminating at the leading edge of the body, and a plurality of weights (23, 24, 25) are mounted in recesses (32 to 35) in the surface of the runners (30 to 32). Preferably the face insert is maraging metal and the weights are tungsten copper.

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