Patent ID: 7517288

Claim:
A golf club shaft composed of a laminate of prepregs each containing a matrix resin and reinforcing fibers impregnated with said matrix resin, wherein said matrix resin of at least one of said prepregs contains a fullerene or/and a fullerene compound, wherein in a longitudinal direction of said golf club shaft, a length of each of said prepregs containing said fullerene or/and said fullerene compound is set to not less than 2% nor more than 90% of a full length of said golf club shaft, and wherein said prepreg containing said fullerene or/and said fullerene compound is disposed in an intermediate layer sandwiched between an inner layer and an outer layer wherein said inner layer and said outer layer are composed of said laminate of prepregs and do not contain said fullerene or/and said fullerene compound.