Patent ID: 6966847

Claim:
A golf club comprising: a shaft having a wall defining a hollow interior, the shaft having a tip end and a butt end; a club head having a body with a heel end and a toe end, the body having a hosel extending outward, the hosel located at the heel end, the hosel having an open end and a hollow interior; locking sleeve for securing the tip end of the shaft to the hosel, the locking sleeve engaging an exterior surface of the tip end of the shaft and an interior surface of the hosel, the locking sleeve having a body with a wall defining an aperture extending from a first opening to a second opening, the body having a first slot in the wan extending from the first opening to the second opening and the body having a second slot in the wall extending from the second opening along the wall and ending prior to the first opening, the body tapered in diameter from the first opening to the second opening.