Patent ID: 6743116
Filing Date: 2004-06-01
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A golf club having a length, L, and a center of gravity comprising:a first graphite shaft member having a first end and; second end; a second graphite shaft member having a first end and a second end; a club head coupled to the second end of the second shaft member; a substantially hollow male connector having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion coupled to an exterior portion of the second end of the first graphite shaft member or to an exterior portion of the first end of the second graphite shaft member, and the second portion of the substantially hollow male connector having external treads; a substantially hollow female connector having a hollow first portion and a hollow second portion, the second portion having a threaded interior, the first portion of the female connector coupled to the exterior portion of the first end of the second graphite shaft member or the exterior portion of the second end of the first graphite shaft member; wherein the external Threads of the second portion of the substantially hollow male connector are sized and configured to mate with the threaded interior of the substantially hollow female connector to provide a releasable connection allowing the club to have an assembled configuration and a disassembled configuration; wherein the center of gravity of the golf club in the assembled configuration is within plus or minus 15% of the club length L of the center of gravity of a club that is identical except having an un-severed, integral shaft member and having no hollow male connector and no hollow female connector; and wherein the second end of the first graphite shaft member and the first end of the second graphite shaft member have an outside diameter of OD1 and wherein the first portion of the substantially hollow male connector has an interior diameter of ID1, and wherein ID1>OD1 and wherein the first portion of the male connector has an outside diameter OD2 and the second portion of the male connector has an inside diameter ID2 and wherein 60% OD22.