摘要 |
A two piece metallic and composite golf shaft utilizing metal for the construction of its lower tip section, and fiber/resin composite for the construction of its upper butt section, creating a hybrid golf shaft which retains the major characteristic advantages of these two shaft materials, while being largely free of their respective disadvantages; the shaft consisting of a tubular lower metallic tip section, comprising approximately one-third of total shaft length, having parallel or tapered sides, and a plurality of diametrally expanding steps at its upper terminal end where it joins a tubular upper composite butt section of larger diameter, having a lower end which telescopingly fits into and is bonded to the inside wall of the last elongated step of the lower metallic tip section, the junction between the two sections being flush, and from whence the upper composite butt section progressively tapers outwardly to its upper terminal end.
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