CN102046248A

CN102046248A - Golf putting training apparatus

Info

Publication number: CN102046248A
Application number: CN2009801202559A
Authority: CN
Inventors: S·J·史密斯
Original assignee: EASYWAY GOLF CO Ltd
Current assignee: EASYWAY GOLF CO Ltd
Priority date: 2008-04-24
Filing date: 2009-04-24
Publication date: 2011-05-04
Also published as: WO2009130514A1; US20110039629A1; JP2011518594A; KR20100137011A; GB0807471D0; GB0807535D0; EP2307109A1

Abstract

Golf putting training apparatus (1), for use with a putter (22), comprises a base (10) having a support (11) upstanding therefrom, and a guide (12) carried by said support (11). The guide (12) has an elongate guide surface (18) for the shaft (21) of the putter (22) to be slid along during putting. An indicator (17) extends laterally from the base (10), below the guide surface (18), to provide a golfer (19) with a visual indication of the alignment of the face of the putter head (23) with respect to a golf ball (24) positioned adjacent the indicator (17). In use, the golfer (19) practises a putting stroke by swinging the putter (22) so that the shaft (21) slides along the guide surface (18), whilst using the indicator (17) to align the face of the putter head (23) at an appropriate angle for striking the golf ball (24).

Description

The putter training device

The present invention relates to be used for the device of golf training.Particularly, the present invention relates to be used for by player (golfer) in exercise with promote the device that uses aspect its handling the ball.

Push rod (putting) can be described as most important technical ability when playing golf.When study or exercise golf sports, the player must improve the ability of brandishing golf clubs in correct mode in push rod hole district (green), and repeats correct handling the ball reliably again and again then.Although as if this may be flat-footed relatively mode in principle, reality is that many players (amateurish and specialty both) are because the low quality of its push rod and discouraged.

In the hole district, most of players use the specially designed golf clubs that is called as putter (putter), and this golf clubs has the bar head (head) that has straight club head face (face), come convenient golf to roll along the hole district.Importantly, to be retained as be straight to handling the ball as far as possible.Ideally, the bar head of putter in vertical plane should along basically with the positive path (path) of harmonizing of player's health.In practice, most of players go out this plane with the bar headband of club easily when batting beginning and end, but key is that when the club head face of putter bar head touched ball, club should be in this plane.In addition, for the club head face that reaches putter bar head impacts angle with respect to the best of golf, will be vertical for this club head face with this plane be necessary.Touch accurately for producing, it also is necessary impacting ball rather than impact ball at downward square stance concerning the player when upwards batting begins.

Therefore, the player that undergoes training that study is touched needs to be grasped the skill of control golf clubs, thereby the club head face that utilizes putter bar head is impacting ball with respect to meeting at right angles with the positive vertical plane of harmonizing of this player's health basically, and wherein impacts ball when the beginning of upwards batting.Next stage then be learn how as one man to repeat best handling the ball-or at least in acceptable error range very near optimal cases ground handling the ball.When on the golf course and even may be when taking part in game and bear under the situation of pressure extremely, the player needs to repeat such handling the ball again and again.Need training and the exercise of plenty of time, to realize the reliable reproduction of this best handling the ball.

For many years, various devices and equipment have been proposed to promote its handling the ball the auxiliary player of training period.Such equipment comprises the golf clubs that improves or increase the weight of, be used for correctly placing player's pin or leg device, be used to limit player's the arm or the device of upper body exercises, and complicated system, golf clubs is attached to the device that is used to guide or control its motion by connecting line (wire) or other devices in the system of described complexity.

Known Training Aids Facility (training aids) has been found that and is not acceptable fully.Many more complication systems are extremely expensive to amateurish player, and the effect that equipment reached that has proposed simultaneously also remains to be investigated.Further, although the use of the device in restriction player's push rod path or equipment can cause improving at training period on health, when participation did not allow to use the golf sports of assistive device, such effect might not easily be transferred to golf course and get on.

The present invention tries hard to by providing such putter training device to solve the problems referred to above, promptly cost all seldom, does not comprise the physical limitation of player's handling the ball and can realize the improved trainer of player's handling the ball that described improvement can be transferred on the golf course on making and buying.In addition, it is believed that device of the present invention can be reduced to raising significantly and as one man can reproduce the required exercise hourage of best handling the ball.

According to the present invention, provide to be used for the putter training device that uses with putter, comprising:

-bottom, described bottom have the support of upwards erectting from described bottom;

-guider, described guider are by described stent support and have an elongated guide surface of the shaft (shaft) of the putter that is used to be used to carry out push rod; And

-indicator, described indicator extend from described bottom transverse under described guide surface, and coming provides the range estimation indication of the club head face of described putter bar head with respect to the adjustment of golf for the player;

Thus in use, the player can practise handling the ball so that described shaft moves along described guide surface by brandishing described putter, use described indicator that the described club head face of described putter bar head is aligned to suitable angle simultaneously, to impact golf.

Guider can only be used to provide the range estimation indication at the optimal path of putter shaft and bar head, but preferably can be used as physics guider (physical guide), thereby in use the player is along the shaft of this guide surface slip putter.By this way, this guider is not intended the action of restriction putter on entity, but only provides the putter shaft can slide with the face of auxiliary player's maintenance at the optimal path of putter bar head thereon.This guider can have any the arc profile of track on the shaft that is similar to the putter of being brandished in vertical plane.

Guide surface in horizontal plane can be for straight line, keeps straight line path at putter with auxiliary player.Replacedly, guide surface certainly can be for arc, so that the player can be along arc push rod path in horizontal plane.In this a kind of embodiment in back, in batting beginning with finish putter and taken out of basically and the positive vertical plane of harmonizing of player's health.In a preferred embodiment of the invention, guide surface is adjustable between straight line and arc profile in horizontal plane.

For the shaft that makes putter can slide along guide surface, guider need be placed on the suitable height that leaves the bottom.In addition, contact with the anything unexpected of support or bottom in order to prevent putter, preferably, guide surface is spaced apart from support and bottom water level land.For this purpose, support can comprise the lower part of upwards erectting from the bottom and be divided into 90 ° of horizontally extending tops with the bottom basically.

Guider should be placed like this with respect to support, to guarantee that the player has enough spaces and comes to brandish (full swing) putter with all strength.Preferably, guider laterally extends from the top of support, and wherein guide surface is in the vertical plane.By this way, the player may stand in the support dead astern, and wherein guider is placed as adjustment player health front.

Indicator is intended to come at being provided than the range estimation indication of the club head face angle of the putter bar head of perfect condition for the player by the putter of brandishing along guider.Ideally, indicator is arranged to guide surface and meets at right angles.Preferably, indicator extends from the bottom with the direction identical with the top of support, and is arranged to perpendicular and aims at this top.By this way, the player can estimate the handling the ball of sensing optimal.

In principle, can be that support and adjustment indicator are mounted thereon plate body according to the bottom of device of the present invention.Preferably, the bottom can comprise the plate body that is generally the plane.

In a preferred form of the invention, the bottom plate body has two relative long limits and two relative minor faces.Minor face can be the arc shape of semicircle.Plate body can be further provided suitable mark alternatively, and player's both feet can be aimed at this mark in bottom rear and reach best push rod position.

In practice, the player is put into plate body rear, bottom with its both feet, in each side of support a pin is arranged respectively.In this position, player's head will be directly over indicator, and wherein its health is positive meets at right angles with indicator, thereby the player can be clear that the angle of putter bar head with respect to the indicator outstanding from the bottom.

Preferably, the basically centre of the lower part of support between relative minor face extends upward from the bottom plate body.Under this arrangement, preferably guide surface is arranged essentially parallel to the long limit extension of bottom plate body.Guaranteeing like this that support is positioned at along the length of bottom is provided with between two parties, thereby and gives the interval that each side of support equates.

Indicator is preferably flatly outstanding from one along the long limit of bottom plate body middle basically point.By this way, indicator is the top of alignment bracket and the mid point of guider vertically, thus the range estimation perception of convenient best handling the ball.

Certainly, although can use any material with necessary physical characteristic, device can be most of or be fully formed by metal.Preferably, support element, guider member and adjustment indicator are made by the metal bar of circle or elliptic cross-section.

Especially for the player who begins to learn, at some exercise square stances, putter bar head may impinge upon on the indicator.Such bump is represented the incorrect or not good enough perpendicular alignmnet of putter bar head with respect to golf, and wherein putter bar head was in low position.Ideally, in handling the ball, when upwards batting begins, impact golf, and the vertical height of indicator can be selected to the supplemental training player to reach this point.

The repetition training course that uses this device to brandish putter will make player's handling the ball be improved.After some such courses, even if at (for example on golf course time) under the situation of this device not, the player will begin the best handling the ball of imagination (visualise).Player's muscle also will be got used to brandishing putter by the handling the ball that is optimized, and make to be easier to reproduce consistent handling the ball.The common passive movement scientist of this phenomenon is called " muscle memory ".

For complete understanding the present invention, only describe the preferred embodiments of the invention in detail now with reference to following accompanying drawing in the mode of embodiment, wherein:

Fig. 1 is the stereogram according to putter training device of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the vertical view according to putter training device of the present invention; And

Fig. 3 illustrates the stereogram of use according to the player of putter training device of the present invention.

Referring to Fig. 1 and 2, illustrate and generally be denoted as 1 putter training device, this device comprises planar base 10, from the support 11 that planar base 10 is extended, support 11 is used for guider 12 is connected to bottom 10.Support 11 comprises lower part 13 and the top 14 of vertically extending with lower part 13, so that guider 12 and bottom 10 is spaced apart.Guider 12 is crooked slightly in vertical plane, to be similar to any the track on the putter shaft (not shown in Fig. 1 and 2) that is used to touch in conjunction with putter training device 1.Bottom 10 has two relative long limits 15 and two relative minor faces 16.One mid point horizontal expansion from the long limit 15 of bottom 10 be indicator 17, the range estimation indication of the adjustment of the golf (not shown in Fig. 1 and 2) that the club head face (not shown in Fig. 1 and 2) that indicator 17 is used to provide putter bar head is placed with respect to adjacent indicator 17.

As can finding out in Fig. 2, guider 12 is a long limit 15 of 10 flatly be shifted (displace) from the bottom.Guide surface 18 is provided by guider 12, and along guider 12, the shaft of putter (not shown in Fig. 1 and 2) can slide.Guide surface 18 as shown in Figure 2 forms outline of straight line in horizontal plane, keep the line handspike path with auxiliary player.In replaceable embodiment (not shown) of the present invention, guide surface 18 can form arc profile on the contrary in this horizontal plane, perhaps can be adjustable between straight line and arc profile.The top 14 of support 11 is vertically on indicator 17.

Referring now to Fig. 3,, the putter training device 1 in the use is shown, player 19 is for exercise and improve the purpose of its handling the ball and use this device.Player 19 stands with each pin of each side that its both feet 20 are placed on 10 rears, bottom and support 11, and the shaft 21 of putter 22 is placed on the guide surface 18 of guider 12.Then, player 19 brandishes putter 22, thereby shaft 21 moves along guide surface 18.Replacedly, particularly along with the enhancement of player's skill, player 19 can select not exclusively to depend on guider 12 provides entity auxiliary, and can use guider 12 only to provide the range estimation indication of best handling the ball.

It is auxiliary that indicator 17 is used for being provided at the further range estimation that reaches best handling the ball aspect to player 19.Ideally, the club head face of putter bar head 23 will meet at right angles with guide surface 18, thereby and by the point before being about to impact the golf 24 that adjacent indicator 17 places the time alignment markers 17.

Concerning player 19, touch accurately for forming, it is necessary impacting ball 24 when the beginning of upwards batting.If player 19 brandishes putter 22 so that bar head 23 is got to adjustment indicator 17, the upright position of the bar head 23 of this indication putter 22 was low with respect to golf 24.Especially, wherein install when being begun to learn player's 19 uses, will occur some bumps frequently between putter bar head 23 and the adjustment indicator 17.It is necessary that this bump will indicate player 19 further to improve, and player 19 will correct the minimizing possibility that action makes further bump automatically.

By using trainer 1 in the mode of intention repeatedly, player 19 will become very soon on health and be subjected to consistent training mentally, closely meet the handling the ball of optimal cases with reproduction.

Claims

1. one kind is used for the putter training device that uses with putter, comprising:

-guider, described guider are by described stent support and have an elongated guide surface of the shaft of the putter that is used to be used to carry out push rod; And

2. putter training device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said support comprise from described bottom the lower part of upwards erectting and the top that becomes 90 degree to extend basically with described lower part.

3. putter training device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said guider be from the described top horizontal expansion of described support, and wherein said guide surface is in being essentially vertical plane.

4. as claim 2 or the described putter training device of claim 3, wherein said indicator extends from described bottom with the direction identical with the described top of described support, and perpendicular is aimed at the described top of described support.

5. each described putter training device in the claim as described above, wherein said bottom comprises the plate body that is typically the plane.

6. putter training device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said bottom plate body have two relative long limits and two relative minor faces.

7. putter training device as claimed in claim 6, the described lower part of wherein said support from the long limit of described bottom plate body between the described relative minor face basically in the middle of point extend upward.

8. as claim 6 or the described putter training device of claim 7, wherein said guide surface is arranged essentially parallel to the described long limit of described bottom plate body and extends.

9. as each described putter training device in the claim 6 to 8, one the mid point substantial horizontal of wherein said indicator from the described long limit of described bottom plate body is outstanding.

10. each described putter training device in the claim as described above, wherein said guider has arc profile in vertical plane, and described contour approximation is in any the track on the described shaft of the putter of being brandished.

11. each described putter training device in the claim as described above, wherein said guide surface has outline of straight line in horizontal plane.

12. as each described putter training device in the claim 1 to 10, wherein said guide surface has arc profile in horizontal plane.

13. as each described putter training device in the claim 1 to 10, wherein said guide surface is adjustable between outline of straight line and arc profile in horizontal plane.