Patent ID: 7972223

Claim:
A graphite golf club shaft which is formed on a mandrel, the graphite golf club shaft comprising: a coupling unit suitable to be coupled with a club head designed to strike a golf ball and a main body unit extending from the coupling unit, the golf club shaft being formed upon a mandrel with a generally cylindrical configuration having mandrel joint segments which are formed as mandrel steps that decrease in diameter from one end of the mandrel to the other end of the mandrel, the golf club shaft main body unit includes a lower sheet layer having embedded fibers, said lower sheet layer contacting and overlapping the mandrel and an upper sheet layer overlapping the lower sheet layer, at least the lower sheet layer being cut in segments and forming sheet joint units which conform with sheet steps decreasing in diameter corresponding to the mandrel steps, the direction of fibers of at least the lower sheet layers being cut such that lower sheet joint units have a different direction of fibers with respect to neighboring lower sheet joint units, and at least one of the lower sheet joint units being formed in segments where the direction of fibers sequentially crosses at 45 degrees and another one of the lower sheet units has fibers where the direction of the fibers is 90 degrees with respect to the longitudinal axis of the golf club shaft.