Golf club set

Claim 1

A golf club set comprising first, second and third groups of golf clubs, each of the clubs in the set comprising a shaft connected to a head at one end of said shaft, each of the heads having a hitting face for hitting a golf ball, said hitting face being inclined to define a loft angle, each of the clubs of the set having said loft angle selected from the range of 9° to 50°, the loft angle of each of the clubs in the set being different and increasing within said first, second and third groups, each of the clubs having a shaft length decreasing from club to club as the loft angle increases from club to club, each of the heads having a center of gravity a distance Z from the hitting face and located within the head, the distance Z decreasing from club to club as the loft angle increases from club to club, each golf club head of the first group of golf clubs having a loft angle selected in the range of from 9° to 25°, each golf club head of the first group of clubs being constructed with a sole plate attached to a first group shell molded of a synthetic resin, a filled cavity formed within the first group shell, each golf club head of the second group of golf clubs having a loft angle selected in the range of from 22° to 31° and being constructed with a seconnd group shell of a synthetic resin, a filled cavity formed within the second group shell and a sole plate integrally molded with the second group shell, and each golf club head of the third group of golf clubs having a loft angle selected in the range of from 28° to 50° and being constructed with a solid means of synthetic resin having a relatively high specific gravity as compared to the synthetic resin of the first group shell and the second group shell, and a sole plate integrally molded with the solid mass of synthetic resin.