Golf club and club head

Abstract

A golf club head that includes a hosel and a metal blade. The metal blade includes a knife-like leading edge at the juncture of the sole and striking face, a sole with a rounded protrusion, and a rear face that extends from the sole's protrusion to the trailing edge of the striking face. The knife-like leading edge allows the club head to easily cut through high grass behind the golf ball, thus prohibiting the grass form turning or twisting the club head. The rounded protrusion of the sole prevents the head from cutting too deeply into the ground surface.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A golf club head comprising: 
 a hosel located at a heel end to accommodate a shaft, and    a metal blade comprising a striking face, a sole, and a rear face, the striking face and the sole meeting at a knife-like leading edge, the sole having a protrusion running substantially parallel to the leading edge and located at the juncture of the sole and the rear face, the rear face meeting the striking face at a trailing edge.    
     
     
         2 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , further including at least one metal dowel disposed in the metal blade and located substantially forward of and substantially parallel to an apex of the protrusion of the sole.  
     
     
         3 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , further including a leading metal dowel and a trailing metal dowel disposed in the metal blade and located substantially on each side of an apex of the protrusion of the sole, the leading metal dowel disposed between the protrusion of the sole and the leading edge and the trailing metal dowel disposed between the protrusion of the sole and the trailing edge.  
     
     
         4 . The golf club head of  claim 3 , wherein the leading metal dowel is cylindrical and smaller in diameter than the trailing metal dowel, the trailing metal dowel also being cylindrical.  
     
     
         5 . The golf club head of  claim 4 , wherein the leading metal dowel has a diameter of 0.25 inch or less, and the trailing metal dowel has a diameter between 0.375 inch and 0.4375 inch.  
     
     
         6 . The golf club head of  claim 2 , wherein the metal dowel is disposed between approximately 0.25 inch from an edge of the metal blade connected to the hosel of the golf club head and 0.25 inch from the center of a toe edge of the golf club head opposite the hosel of the golf club head.  
     
     
         7 . The golf club head of  claim 2 , wherein the metal dowel is made of a metal having a density greater than the density of the metal from which the metal blade is formed.  
     
     
         8 . The golf club head of  claim 7 , wherein the metal dowel is made of lead.  
     
     
         9 . The golf club head of  claim 7 , wherein the metal dowel is made of tungsten.  
     
     
         10 . The golf club head of  claim 7 , wherein the metal dowel is made of steel.  
     
     
         11 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , wherein the angle between the striking face and a vertical plane in which the hosel of the golf club head is positioned in when it is in a substantially upright address position is between 45° and 60°, where the vertical plane is perpendicular to the ground level horizontal plane and parallel to the leading edge of the club head.  
     
     
         12 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , wherein the angle between the striking face and the sole is between 20° and 30°.  
     
     
         13 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , wherein the knife-like leading edge is straight.  
     
     
         14 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , wherein the knife-like leading edge is serrated.  
     
     
         15 . The golf club head of  claim 14 , wherein the distance between a pair of adjacent troughs of the knife-like leading edge is between 0.1875 inch and 0.250 inch.  
     
     
         16 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the metal blade between the striking face and a planar portion of the rear face positioned substantially parallel to the striking face is between 0.8125 inch and 0.875 inch.  
     
     
         17 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , wherein a distance from the leading edge to the trailing edge of the golf club head at a point where a set of grooves ends toward the toe end of the club head is between 2.375 inches and 2.5 inches.  
     
     
         18 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , wherein the angle at the point of the leading edge between ground level and the downward most point of the rounded protrusion of the sole is approximately 10° when the hosel of the golf club head is in a substantially upright address position in a vertical plane that is perpendicular to the ground level horizontal plane and parallel to the leading edge of the golf club head.  
     
     
         19 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , further including a shaft attached to the hosel and having a handle positioned at an end opposite the hosel.  
     
     
         20 . The golf club head of  claim 1 , wherein the striking face is abrasive.