A golf club shaft composed of a laminate of prepregs each containing a matrix resin and reinforcing fibers impregnated with the matrix resin. The matrix resin of at least one of the prepregs contains a fullerene or/and a fullerene compound. The content of the fullerene or/and the fullerene compound contained in the prepreg is set to not less than 0.002 wt % nor more than 1 wt % of an entire weight of the prepreg. The length of the prepreg containing the fullerene or/and the fullerene compound is set to not less than 2% nor more than 90% of the full length of the golf club shaft.