Part of golf club, feather or sunlight (5)

I believe the answer is:

shaft

(Other definitions for shaft that I've seen before include "Ray (of sunlight)" , "Vertical excavation" , "Long slender part or deep vertical opening" , "Vertical passageway, into a mine say" , "An arrow or a mine passage" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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