Patent ID: 8449404

Claim:
A golf club comprising: a shaft adapter having a first end and a second end along a first axis, the shaft adapter further comprising a shaft adapter bore along a second axis configured to attach to a shaft member on the second axis, and wherein the second end of the shaft adapter is configured to engage a head adapter, wherein the first axis is off-set from the second axis, thereby creating an off-axis bore in the shaft adapter, and wherein an exterior surface of the second end of the shaft adapter has a cross-sectional shape of a regular polygon and an outer surface of the shaft adapter between the first end and the second end is tapered in an axial direction along the shaft adapter; a head adapter having a first end and a second end along a first axis, the head adapter further comprising a head adapter bore having a shape of a regular polygon along a second axis that is shaped to receive the second end of the shaft adapter in a plurality of different orientations, wherein the first axis is off-set from the second axis, thereby creating an off-axis bore in the head adapter, and wherein an exterior surface of the second end of the head adapter has a cross-sectional shape of a regular polygon that engages a polygonal bore of a hosel area of a club head, wherein at least one of the head adapter bore or the exterior surface of the shaft adapter has a different quantity of sides than the other of the head adapter bore or the exterior surface of the shaft adapter; and a shaft member, wherein the shaft adapter is permanently engaged with the shaft member or is releasably engaged with the shaft member; a club head having a hosel area, and wherein the second end of the head adapter is able to be received within the hosel area of the club head in one of a plurality of different possible orientations, wherein a face angle, a lie angle, and a loft angle of the club head relates to at least one of different orientations of the shaft adapter and the head adapter with respect to one another and different orientations of the shaft adapter and the head adapter with respect to the hosel area of the club head.