A New Titleist Adjustable CG Driver Design

What would Titleist’s core market of “purists” think of this design?

The drawings come from a patent application that published this week as US Pub. No. 20140031141 titled “Golf Club Heads Having Adjustable Weighted Crowns and Soles to Move Center of Gravity,” which describes the invention as:

The present invention provides golf clubs and golf club heads that can be weight adjusted to move the center of gravity of the clubs and heads. The wood-type clubs have heads with crown and soles plates containing weighted and non-weighted sections. The crown and sole plates can be rotated or removed. In this manner, the weighted sections of the crowns and sole plates can be moved to a particular location, and this adjusts the center of gravity of the club head.

The application goes on to explain:

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0008] The present invention relates to golf clubs and golf club heads that can be weight-adjusted to move the center of gravity of the clubs and heads. In one embodiment, the wood-type golf club head includes a body having a heel end, a toe end, and a front ball-striking surface; a crown extending between the heel and toe ends and from a top edge of the front ball-striking surface, the crown having a front portion and a rear portion; and a sole extending between the heel and toe ends and from a bottom edge of the front ball-striking surface, the sole having a sole aperture therein; and a sole plate positioned within the sole aperture so that the body defines an interior cavity.

[0009] The sole plate has at least two sections of differing weight and is rotatably attached to the sole so the sole plate can rotate from a first position to a second position. In this manner, the center of gravity of the club is changed. For example, the weighted section(s) of the sole plate may comprise a first metal material is selected from the group consisting of copper, tungsten, steel, magnesium tin, silver, gold, and platinum; while the crown plate may comprise a second metal material selected from the group consisting of titanium and aluminum alloys. The golf club head also may contain a crown plate having at least two sections of differing weight that is rotatably attached to the sole so the sole plate can rotate from a first position to a second position. The weighted and non-weighted sections of the crown plate also may be made of the above-described metal materials. The first position of the sole plate/crown plate provides the club with a first center of gravity and the second position provides the club with a second center of gravity, whereby the first and second centers of gravity are different.

[0010] In another embodiment, a first sole plate is positioned within the sole aperture and this plate is removably attached so it can be removed and a second sole plate attached in place thereof. The first and second sole plates are of differing weight, whereby the first sole plate provides the club with a first center of gravity and the second sole plate provides the club with a second center of gravity, the first and second centers of gravity being different.

Place your bets; will this design ever become an actual Titleist product? My prediction; not a chance!

David Dawsey – The Golf Patent Lawyer

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