Golf equipment carrier

A golf equipment carrier for securely holding a plurality of golf clubs, comprising:

• a circular bottom member having a plurality of upwardly facing sockets arranged in at least one socket circle of predetermined radius concentric with said bottom member to receive the handle ends of inverted clubs;
• a circular top member having a plurality of pockets corresponding in number to said sockets and arranged inwardly of the periphery of said top member in a pocket circle of approximately the same radius as said socket circle for receiving the shank portions of the clubs, said top member also having slots extending inward from its periphery to adjacent one side of said pockets and a corresponding plurality of narrow passages connecting said slots to said pockets to form passages for inserting and removing the shank end of a club shaft with respect to the related pockets;
• a tubular shaft centrally interconnecting said top and bottom members and spacing said top and bottom members from one another to form an elongated club receiving frame;
• shaft retaining means comprising a disc member mounted on said shaft and having a resilient rim of a radius slightly greater than the radius of at least one of the socket circle and pocket circle so as to exert an outward force against a central part of the club shaft, thereby holding the end and shank of the shaft in the corresponding socket and pocket and positively retaining the club in said frame, and
• a base including a turntable supporting said club receiving frame in a vertical position and for rotation about the axis of said shaft.

In a golf equipment carrier for securely holding a plurality of golf clubs, a club-holding frame comprising:

• a bottom member having a plurality of upwardly facing sockets arranged in at least one socket circle of predetermined radius to receive the handle ends of inverted clubs;
• a top member having a plurality of pockets corresponding in number to said sockets and arranged inwardly of the periphery of said top member in a pocket circle of approximately the same radius as said socket circle for receiving the shank portions of the clubs, said top member also having slots extending inward from its periphery to adjacent one side of said pockets and a corresponding plurality of narrow passages connecting said slots to said pockets to form passages for inserting and removing the shank end of a club shaft with respect to the related pockets;
• a shaft centrally interconnecting said top and bottom members on the axis of said circles and spacing said top and bottom members from one another to form an elongated club receiving frame;
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• shaft retaining means comprising a disc member mounted on said shaft and having a resilient rim of a radius slightly greater than the radius of at least one of the socket circle and pocket circle so as to exert an outward force against a central part of the club shaft, thereby holding the end and shank of the shaft in the corresponding socket and pocket and positively retaining the club in said frame.