Patent ID: 8226497

Claim:
A golf club grip, comprising: a lining sleeve, which includes a sleeve body having top and bottom ends, a cap projecting radially from said top end, a protective rim projecting radially from said bottom end, a cavity configured to receive a larger end of a golf club shaft; and a single natural leather sheet layer, wrapped around and adhered to said sleeve body, said sheet layer having a bottom circumferential margin being in abutment with said protective rim, a top circumferential margin proximate to said cap, two axial margins which interconnect the top and bottom circumferential margins and which are pressed to form two L-shaped corners, an inner surface dimension tapered longitudinally from said top circumferential margin to said bottom circumferential margin, wherein said lining sleeve further includes a raised rib projecting radially from said sleeve body and extending axially from said cap to said protective rim and having a height from an outer surface of said sleeve body being lower than the thickness of the two axial margins, wherein said raised rib has a integral connected area connected with said sleeve body, wherein said outer surface of said sleeve body excludes said integral connected area of said raised rib, and has a dimension tapered longitudinally from said cap to said protective rim wherein the inner surface dimension of said sheet layer is longitudinally narrower than the outer surface dimension of said sleeve body, wherein said sheet layer has the two axial margins which are toward each other along each side of said raised rib to form an axial gap with said raised rib between the two axial margins and from said top circumferential margin to said bottom circumferential margin and to form a receiving groove between said two L-shaped corners from said top circumferential margin to said bottom circumferential margin; and a seam strip, covering said axial gap and said raised rib, and inset bonded onto each of the two axial margins within said receiving groove to finish an axial seam structure.