Patent ID: 7658682

Claim:
A grip for a golf club, the grip comprising: an elongate gripping handle defining a cavity sized to surround an end of a shaft of a golf club, said handle having a first end having an opening to the cavity sized to accept the end of the shaft of the golf club; and a second end having an end surface; a magnet recessed into the end surface of the grip and operative to magnetically hold a ball marker having a magnetic material in place on the end surface of the grip, the magnet being annular and having an aperture therethrough which will substantially mate with an aperture in the end surface of the grip, wherein the aperture in the magnet and the aperture in the end surface of the grip form a passageway into the cavity in the grip; an elongate member extending below the bottom surface of the magnet with a flared flange positioned at the end thereof, an elongate hollow extending through the elongate member and the flange and also through the aperture of the magnet, whereby the elongate member passes through the aperture in the end surface of the grip and the magnet is held in place in the recess on the end surface of the grip by the elongate member and the flange; and a ridge at least partially enclosing a contact area on the end surface such that the ridge abuts a portion of an edge surface of the ball marker when the ball marker is positioned on the end surface.