Abstract: A shaft and club head separation device for a golf club includes a base having padded shaft gripping members and a separation disk having at least two peripheral recesses into which the end of shaft is inserted; the gripping members are arranged to maintain the club shaft parallel to the axis of the separation disk; a plunger in slidably disposed in a bore in the base and an actuation device is provided to engage the plunger and move the plunger and disk away from the base so that, with the hosel of a club engaging a face of the disk, separation of the shaft and club head will occur.