Another Replaceable Face Club Head, Oy Vey; Wait, This is a Driver!
No explanation needed. Check out this Acushnet driver design disclosed in a patent application that published today.
The drawings come from US Pub. No. 20110111885 titled “Golf Club Head with Replaceable Face,” which describes the invention as:
Think we will ever see this design under a Titleist head cover?
Dave Dawsey - Keeping an Eye on Adjustable Golf Club Inventions
PS – check out more interesting posts on golf club shaft technology HERE
The drawings come from US Pub. No. 20110111885 titled “Golf Club Head with Replaceable Face,” which describes the invention as:
A golf club head having a replaceable striking face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention discloses a golf club head where at least a portion of the frontal striking surface of the face is detachable and replaceable to improve performance. A golf club head in accordance with the present invention may generally have a thinned striking face with a thickness of less than about 3.0 mm yielding a golf club head with a larger sweet spot that's greater than 6% of the frontal striking surface; defined as an area of the frontal striking surface having at least 99% of the maximum characteristic time between about 239 microseconds to about 257 microseconds.
Think we will ever see this design under a Titleist head cover?
Dave Dawsey - Keeping an Eye on Adjustable Golf Club Inventions
PS – check out more interesting posts on golf club shaft technology HERE
Posted by David Dawsey PE Esq at 5/12/2011 12:00 AM 
Categories: Woods, Published Patent App of the Week
Categories: Woods, Published Patent App of the Week
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