Symmetrical golf club head with center of gravity coincident with geometric center

Claim 1

As a new article of manufacture, a golf club comprising a straight, normally upstanding shaft having an upper proximate end and a lower distal end, and a symmetrical, horizontally elongated ''''wood'''' type head at the distal end of the shaft, said head being formed throughout of molded, high impact, plastic material of uniform density and embodying toe and heel portions at its opposite ends, a substantially flat bottom face, and an integrally formed, upwardly and outwardly extending hosel on its heel portion, said shaft having the distal end thereof connected to said hosel and being dIsposed in coaxial relation with the latter, said head also embodying a substantially flat and lofted front striking face and a substantially flat rear face with a loft the same as the loft of the front striking face, said front and rear faces being symmetrical with respect to a vertical plane passing centrally and longitudinally through the head and the common axes of said shaft and hosel, and, in addition, being each spaced equidistantly from said plane throughout its entire length, said head being designed so that its geometric center and its center of gravity are coincident and lie in the aforementioned plane, said golf club as a whole being constructed, dimensioned, shaped and proportioned so that when it is freely suspended from the upper proximate end of the shaft a plumb line axis passing through the point of suspension will intersect said coincident geometric center and center of gravity of the head.