(19)
(11) EP 0 255 324 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
19.10.1988 Bulletin 1988/42

(43) Date of publication A2:
03.02.1988 Bulletin 1988/05

(21) Application number: 87306625

(22) Date of filing: 27.07.1987
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR SE

(30) Priority: 26.07.1986 GB 8618300

(71) Applicant: Wilson Sporting Goods Company Limited
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(72) Inventor:
  • Swash,Harold
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(54) Golf clubs


(57) A golf club head (3) and shaft (1) connection to provide a feel different from that provided by the all steel golf club wherein a material different from that of the head and shaft is interposed there between. The material is in the form of a ferrule (2, 12) of plastics material having a spigot formation (2A, 12A) at one end to fit a socketed golf club head (3,13), and a deep socket or through-bore at or from its other end to take a golf club shaft (1,11) then capable of extending into said spigot formation. In one embodiment the shaft is accommodated wholly in the ferrule, in another the end of the shaft extends through the ferrule and is received in a bore 15 in the golf club head.










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