Patent ID: 6112895
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: A63B,Y10T

Abstract:
A locking golf club bag apparatus for locking a plurality of golf clubs in the bag, the golf clubs having shafts which include a smaller diameter portion and a larger diameter portion the apparatus comprising:a golf club bag having an open mouth;a continuous side wall circumscribing the mouth;at least one divider spanning the mouth and having opposed first and second ends attached to the side wall;the side wall further having a first pair of side wall holes defined therein, the first pair of side wall holes including a first hole disposed in the side wall proximate the first end of the divider and a second hole disposed in the side wall proximate the second end of the divider, the holes being transversely spaced from the ends of the divider in a common transverse direction by a distance greater than the smaller diameter portion of the shafts of the clubs and less than the larger diameter portion of the shafts of the clubs; anda first locking bar slideable relative to the bag in a direction parallel to the divider between an unlocked position and a locked position, in the locked position the locking bar penetrating the first pair of side wall holes, and spanning the mouth of the bag substantially parallel to the divider, and being transversely spaced from the divider by a distance greater than the smaller diameter portion of the shafts of the clubs and less than the larger diameter portion of the shafts of the clubs so that the clubs may be locked between the locking bar and the divider.