Golf club for hazard surfaces

Claim 1

A golf club for use on hazard surfaces such as sand comprising, a shaft having hand grip means adjacent the top, a golf club head secured to the bottom of said shaft, said head having a front face for engagement with a golf ball and a sole surface, said front face and said sole surface meeting to define a bottom leading edge, at least one guide fin projecting downwardly from said sole surface and from said leading edge and positioned in a plane substantially transverse to the plane of said face, said fin having side surfaces with at least bottom portions thereof converging to form a single sharply defined forwardly exposed and centered perimetral bottom knife-like edge running simultaneously downwardly and rearwardly from said leading edge to a midway point of maximum extension of said fin below said sole surface thereby forming a sharp convex shaped bottom edge as viewed from a side view.