Set of golf clubs and means for carrying same

Claim 1

In combination, a portable hand-carried container, simulating an attache case and having a compartmented interior, a plurality of different golf club heads includIng iron heads and wood heads so as to form a complete set, with each of said golf club heads having a hollow shank portion, said plurality of different golf club heads all removably supported for storage and ready access and for removal in said portable container, means in said container for removably and spacedly supporting each of said golf club heads separately in a fixed position in said container whereby said heads are each independently removable from said container without affecting the fixed position of any of the remaining heads, a shaft formed of a plurality of telescoping permanently connected sections adapted when in extended position to form a shaft for each of said golf club heads, said shaft having an innermost section, an intermediate section and an outermost section, which outermost section forms the handle of said shaft, with said innermost section received in said hollow shank portion, first means located in said hollow shank and second means located in said innermost section, said first and second means cooperatively automatically interengaging for detachably locking said innermost section in said hollow shank when said innermost section is inserted into said hollow shank, said telescoping sections when detached from any of said golf club heads adapted to be telescoped within each other so that all of said telescoped sections remain connected and when thus connected are collapsed to a relatively short length to be readily supported in said portable container, means in said container for removably retaining said telescoped sections in telescopic position in said container, said single shaft and plurality of different detachable heads forming the equivalent of a complete set of different golf clubs which are transportable in said portable container.