CA2160932C - Golf tee - Google Patents

Abstract

This invention is a new golf tee device to produce a straight trajectory for the driving of a golf ball from the tee area by means of an elevated, angled tube.

Description

SPECIFICATION
This invention relates to the game of golf. The specific area is the start of a hole where a wooden or metal-wood club is used for the driving of a golf ball resting on an elevated tee device.

2. There are approximately 28 million golfers in North America and about 80%
of them (myself included) have trouble properly hitting a golf ball resting on a standard tee. The main problem is that the club face puts unwanted side spin on said ball causing said ball to land in undesirable areas on either side of the safe fairway. This leads to higher scores which mean disappointment and/or frustration.
My golf tee solves the problem of unwanted side spin thusly:
(a) A golf ball is placed into the upper, open end of the tube and falls by gravity to the lower, closed end of the tube.
(b) The closed end of the tube, where the driving club face makes contact through the swing, shields the golf ball from direct contact with the club face.
(c) The length of the tube causes the golf ball to be propelled in a virtually straight trajectory, similar to a bullet fired inside a gun barrel, thereby allowing said ball to land on the safe fairway a good distance from the tee area.
(d) The disk provides weight distribution and an optimum height for striking the tube with a golf club.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure 1 is a side elevation view of the present invention.
Figure 2 is a front view of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
A tube 1, 75mm in length with an inside diameter of 46mm and wall thickness of lmm, which has an open end and a spherically closed end.
A post 2, SSmm in length which has a thickness of l2mm at the top end tapering to a point at the other end, said pointed end to insert vertically into the ground.
A disk 3, having a diameter of 40mm and a thickness of 2mm.
The horizontal plane 4.
An elevated plane 5 which rises 22° from the centre line of the post 2 and the horizontal plane 4.
The tube 1 is attached to the top end of the post 2 at an angle of 22°
from the horizontal plane 4 and at a point SSmm from the open, higher elevated, end of the tube and the centre line of the post.
The disk 3 is attached to the post 2 at a point 24mm from the pointed end of the post and on the centre line of the post and the centre point of the disk and parallel to the horizontal plane 4.

Claims (6)

1. A golf tee which is comprised of:
(a) a hollow tube 75mm long, having one open end and a second spherically closed end with an inside diameter wide enough to allow insertion of a standard golf ball with 1mm clearance around its circumference;
(b) a cylindrical tapered post which is 55mm in length, having a point on one end and a diameter of 12mm at the second end, the second end attached to said tube at an angle so that when said post is inserted pointed end in ground vertically, the open end of the tube is higher above the ground than the closed end, allowing the tube to rest at an angle of 22° from the horizontal, whereby the face of a golf club, striking the spherically closed end of the tube, will cause a golf ball inside said tube to be propelled out of the open end upward and forward in a straight trajectory.

2. The tee from claim 1, having a disk attached to the post 24mm from the point of the post to keep the closed end of the tube from making contact with the ground.

3. The tee from claims 1 and 2, whereby the second end of the post is attached to the tube at a point 55mm from the open end of the tube and centre line of post.

4. The tee from claims 1 to 3, whereby the tube wall thickness is 1mm.

5. The tee from claims 1 to 4, whereby the tube is made from high impact-resistant plastic.

6. The tee from claims 1 to 5, whereby the disk has a diameter of 40mm and a thickness of 2mm to distribute the load of the tube with a golf ball inside it.