Patent ID: 7435186

Claim:
An improved golf club grip coupled on a cylindrical golf club shaft, having a longitudinal axis, for use by a golfer, said grip comprising: an elongated body, having a longitudinal axis and having a top end and an open shaft end, said top end having a first diameter, approximately in the range of 0.77 inches-0.80 inches, and said shaft end having a second diameter, approximately in the range of 0.92 inches-0.95 inches, defining a reverse taper defined by progressively and uniformly increasing external diameter from said first diameter to said second diameter; a closed outwardly flared end cap coupled to said top end having outwardly disposed sides, such that the external diameter of said grip body progressively and uniformly increases from the flared cap end to the shaft end along the grip body; an inner surface having an elongated substantially cylindrical cavity disposed coaxially through said shaft end and disposed through the longitudinal axis of said grip body which is adapted to receive the golf club shaft; an outer surface having a substantially frusto-conical configuration throughout said grip body; one integrally coupled rib extending from the inner surface of said grip body when said grip is not coupled to a shaft in alignment with the longitudinal axis of said golf club shaft, a reminder rib extending outwardly from the outer surface of said grip produced when said grip is coupled to a shaft wherein said reminder rib intersects said outwardly disposed sides of the flared end cap, and wherein said reminder rib extends continuously from the top end to the shaft end of said grip body, wherein said reminder rib is adapted in cooperation with the increasing diameter of said grip body from said top end to said shaft end; and a Y-shaped structure, wherein the diverging arms of said structure form a twenty-five degree angle therebetween and intersect the outwardly disposed sides of the flared cap, wherein, the intersection of the reminder rib with the flared end cap provides the golfer with a type of finger rest, which provides a tangible and subliminal reminder to the golfer as to where the golf club grip should be positioned in the hands of the golfer.