Abstract: A locking device is provided which releasably secures a plurality of golf clubs therein. Each golf club has a head disposed at an end of a shaft which has a narrow region near the head and a wider region further from the head. The locking device comprises a plurality of elongated shackles each having parallel limbs extending from a bight portion and which are separated from one another by a distance greater than a club's narrow region and less than a club's wider region. The limbs of each shackle are lockingly receivable by a receiver to secure a plurality of club shafts therein. A lightweight polymeric retainer retains the receivers in slidably spaced relation therein, whereby the receivers, as well as said shackles, when lockingly received therein, may be aligned with individual compartments of a golf bag.