Patent 8376877 was granted and assigned to Callaway Golf Company on February, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for creating a face of a golf club head with a preferred surface texture is disclosed herein. The method includes etching a non-scoreline portion of a face using a photosensitive coating that is activated with light to etch the face. The scorelines are protected from the etching process to maintain the well-defined geometries of the face.