A golf club having a head and a shaft defining an axis, the head having a heel, a toe, a top, and a bottom, an improved connection of the shaft to the head comprising a socket associated with the head, the socket having inner wall structure extending in the direction of the axis, and with annular wall portions relatively angled at axially successive locations in the direction, at least one of the wall portions providing a locally camming surface; the shaft having a lower end portion forcibly received endwise into the socket, and collapsed at least in part toward the axis in response to the forcible reception of the shaft lower end portion into the socket, and against the camming surface; the wall structure forming with the shaft lower end portion a clearance axially offset from-the camming surface for reception of adhesive to contact the shaft lower end portion and to cure and adhere the shaft lower end portion to the wall structure.