Patent ID: 8181681

Claim:
A golf club head cover comprising a body having an open condition enabling the body to receive the head of a golf club and a closed condition substantially enclosing said head therein, said body including a pair of cover sections each with a predetermined configuration and each including a perimeter, said perimeters abutting when the body is in the closed condition, and a clip member connecting the cover sections and having an open position and a closed position, said clip member including a pair of arms hinged together and a spring element connected to the arms to normally bias the clip member into the closed position, each arm including a mounting element and a handle element, one cover section being connected to the mounting element of one arm and the other cover section being connected to the mounting element of the other arm, said handle elements projecting from the connected cover sections and positioned opposite each other along a portion of the abutting perimeters and oriented so that manually gripping and depressing the handle elements using only one hand overcomes the bias of the spring element to move the clip member to the open position by pivoting the hinged together arms to separate the cover sections to form the open condition of the body so long as the handle elements are manually depressed and, upon release of manually gripping the handle elements, said spring element moving the separated cover sections together to rejoin said cover sections along said perimeters to form the closed condition of the body, each cover section including a rigid frame forming a substantial portion of the perimeter of the frame's corresponding cover section and each frame having attached thereto sheet material covering the frame, each said frame having a substantially flat upper curved portion with a substantially uniform rectangular cross-section, the sheet material has an open section that allows the handle elements to extend through the sheet material upon wrapping the sheet material around the frame, said sheet material having hook and fabric two components connectors positioned to enable outer edge portions to be wrapped around the frame to hold the sheet material to the frame, and including a moveable flap attached on an inside portion of the sheet material that covers the open section upon attaching the sheet material to the frame.