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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2017
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Kobe-shi, Hyogo, JP;
Masahide Onuki, Kobe, JP;
Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kobe, JP;
Naruhiro Mizutani, Kobe, JP;
Yuki Motokawa, Kobe, JP;
SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD., Kobe-Shi, Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
A golf club includes a head, a shaft, and a tip engagement part RT having a reverse-tapered shape and being disposed at a tip end portion of the shaft. The tip engagement part RT includes a sleevehaving a reverse-tapered shape and being fixed to the tip end portion of the shaft, and a spacerhaving a reverse-tapered shape and being externally fitted to the sleeve. The spacerhas a divided structure. The hosel partincludes a hosel hole. The hosel holeincludes a reverse-tapered holecorresponding to the shape of the outer surface of the tip engagement part RT. The hosel holeallows the sleeveto pass through the hosel hole. The tip engagement part RT is fitted to the reverse-tapered hole, and the sleeveis fitted inside the spacer