Patent ID: 6394909
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A golf club comprising:a handle with a cavity having an upper portion and a lower portion; a hollow shaft upper portion terminating in an upper end closely received within the cavity lower portion and symmetric about a longitudinal axis; a hollow flexible shaft portion, symmetric about said axis, attached at an upper end to the shaft upper portion and attached at a lower end to a hollow shaft lower portion symmetric about said axis, the shaft lower portion terminating in a lower end; a cap member having an inner thread and an outer surface, said outer surface closely received within the handle cavity upper portion; a wire-end clamping member having therethrough a longitudinal bore of a predetermined cross-section, the clamping member having opposed generally planar upper and lower ends, the clamping member radially compressible, the cap member superposed upon the compressed clamping member; a tension support member having a generally cylindrical lower portion closely received within the shaft upper portion, a generally cylindrical upper portion having an outer thread, and an annular flange having opposed generally planar upper and lower surfaces, the flange disposed between and attached to said upper and lower portions, the flange lower surface contacting the upper end of the shaft upper portion, the cap member inner thread in threaded combination with the outer thread of said upper portion; and a metallic wire having opposed upper and lower wire-ends and disposed along said axis, the upper wire-end maintained within said clamping member, the lower wire-end attached to the lower end of the shaft lower portion, the wire maintained at a preselected constant tension.