Patent ID: 7309294

Claim:
A club shaft, comprising a club shaft body and a single- or multi-layered coating film covering said club shaft body, wherein said coating film includes a coating layer having good scratch or scuff resistance and high resilience, wherein the coating layer having good scratch or scuff resistance and high resilience is applied to the outermost surface of the club shaft body and is one which is formed from any of a coating compound containing polydimethylsiloxane copolymer, polycaprolactone, and polysiloxane, a coating compound containing polydimethylsiloxane copolymer whose main chain skeleton has polycaprolactone and polysiloxane introduced thereinto, a coating compound containing polydimethyisiloxane copolymer whose main chain skeleton has polycaprolactone introduced thereinto and polysiloxane, and a coating compound containing polydimetylsiloxane copolymer whose main chain skeleton has polysiloxane introduced thereinto and polycaprolactone, and wherein the coating layer has a thickness no smaller than 10 μm and no larger than 20 μm.