Adjustable golf club

Claim 1

An adjustable golf club for simultaneously adjusting the length, loft, and lie angles of the club thereby being adapted to serve the functions of a set of successively numbered golf clubs wherein these clubs decrease in length and increase in loft and lie angles from the lowest numbered club to the highest numbered club, said adjustable golf club comprising an elongated shaft, a hand grip on one end of the shaft, a fitting on the other end of the shaft having a curved passage therethrough substantially coplanar with the shaft axis and rearwardly directed relative to the shaft, a club head having a striking face, a rear surface, a top surface, a sole surface, a toe end and a heel end, an elongated curved hosel extending from the heel end of the club head upwardly and rearwardly therefrom and defining an acute lie angle and with its curvature being in a plane of curvature inclined relative to a vertical plane perpendicular to the plane of the striking face of the club head, said hosel being slidably mounted in said curved passage of the fitting, means on the fitting for locking the hosel in fixed position in said passage, said hosel length and said curvature of the hosel being such as to simultaneously change the effective length of the club, the lie angle of the sole relative to the axis of the shaft and the loft angle of the striking face of the club head to reproduce the club lengths, lie angles, and loft angles of said set of golf clubs when said fitting is locked to the hosel in the appropriate position.