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ideas. If we want to have as broad and long of a club as possible, then the maximum the clubhead could be is our 5" by 5" base. If we wanted a 460cc volume (28.05 in^3), then the maximum height could only be 1.12” (2.85cm) tall. Obviously this is much shallower than a typical driver which is roughly half the dimension to the top of the crown of a modern 460cc driver. Assuming the solid block was made from the same material throughout, this would mean that the block would have a center of gravity that would be both low and rearward from the striking surface.

 
In the other case of the maximum limits using face height, the face plane would measure 5" wide by 2.8" tall. If we wanted to create the same 460cc volume (28.05 in^3), then the maximum width could only be 2” (5.09cm) wide. This would be dramatically narrower than modern 460cc titanium driver by half again. This time though, this block would exhibit a center of gravity that would be very high and
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