Golf club, shaft, and head

Claim 1

A conventional golf club comprising: a golf club shaft formed as a continuous, homogenous metal tube having a longitudinal axis, a circularly sectioned inner wall and a circularly sectioned concentric outer wall extending axially from a head end to a handle end of said shaft, both of said walls, throughout a tapered head end portion extending from the head end to a sUbstantial axial distance therefrom, and throughout a tapered handle end portion extending from a point adjacent to the handle end to a substantial axial distance therefrom, being continuously tapered, smooth and uninterrupted, and increasing in diameter, the wall thickness of the shaft thereby increasing in both of said head end portion and of said handle end portion as the shaft extends toward the head end, the shaft having throughout its entire length a substantially constant cross section area in planes normal to the longitudinal axis, thereby providing uniform linear distribution of the shaft weight throughout its length, the wall thickness at the head end being at least 250 percent that of the wall thickness adjacent to the handle end; a golf club head comprising a body, a striking face on said body having an upper margin which in elevation is sensibly straight in elevation view, and a hosel having a tapered bore with an axis extending transverse to an imaginary extension of the said upper margin, the top of the bore standing above said extension, and the bottom of the bore being closed and terminating above the bottom of the club head and below said extension, the walls of the bore and of the outer wall of the shaft adjacent to the head end being identically tapered, and the head end of the shaft being tightly fitted into and retained in said bore, a ribbonlike, flexible, thin, and lightweight wrapping wound around and upon the handle end portion, the diameter of the outer wall of the handle end portion being at least 225 percent that of the diameter of the outer wall at the head end.