Patent ID: 7699083

Claim:
In a golf club head cover having an essentially flexible, non-rigid material construction forming a cavity therein, said construction having at least a first panel and an adjacent panel connected together by seams and an opening between the first panel and the adjacent panel for receiving the golf club head therethrough for storage in the cavity, said opening having an elongate configuration and a closure for the opening, the improvement comprising: the closure formed from a single flexible magnetic strip enclosed in a seam at one edge of the opening and another single flexible magnetic strip of opposite polarity enclosed in an adjacent seam at the other edge of the opening, wherein each of the single flexible magnetic strips is flexible to follow the elongate configuration; and wherein the first panel is a back panel and the golf club head cover has a bottom section and a pair of side panels and the bottom section is connected to the back panel at a first seam, wherein the opening is located between the back panel and the pair of side panels, and wherein the back panel pivots about the first seam to move between an open and closed position.