EP0618827B1 - Gerät zur unterrichtung oder korrektur des standes eines golfers - Google Patents

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EP0618827B1
EP0618827B1 EP93921000A EP93921000A EP0618827B1 EP 0618827 B1 EP0618827 B1 EP 0618827B1 EP 93921000 A EP93921000 A EP 93921000A EP 93921000 A EP93921000 A EP 93921000A EP 0618827 B1 EP0618827 B1 EP 0618827B1
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René Edgadito Banc Agricol DE KNIGHT
Major Robert Briarclyst Haynes
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  • This invention relates to golfing apparatus, and particularly to apparatus for teaching golfers where their feet should be placed when hitting a golf ball in a specified direction with a known club.
  • the apparatus can be used to train tyro golfers, or to help experienced golfers to eliminate a stance or swing defect.
  • the present invention aims at providing a teaching aid to act as a visual guide, intended to be recalled from memory by the golfer when addressing a ball and used mentally to position the feet correctly when wishing to use a selected club.
  • US Patent Specification 4384718 discloses a device consisting of three flat strips variably positionable one with another to secure appropriate positioning of the golfer's feet and the ball.
  • a more popular approach to the problem involves the provision of a mat with markings on it on which the golfer is to stand.
  • US Specifications 4915387, 2606026 and 4023810, and British Patent Specification 1305710 are representative of this approach. Most involve complex markings for foot position and they do not address the importance of providing a visual guide corresponding to the desired line of flight of the ball when it is struck.
  • United States Patent Specification 4434983 discloses a mat having a T-bar guide secured to its surface with the horizontal portion of the T providing a plurality of possible positions in which a tee may be located.
  • the device shown in this specification does not allow for the positioning of the feet of the golfer such that the line joining the fronts of the golfer's feet when positioned on the mat runs at an angle to the intended line of flight of the ball. It is inflexible and visually cluttered.
  • improved mats may be designed which are simple in construction and effective in training by providing a mat having a flight line for the ball marked clearly on it generally near one edge, and provided with one or more means to define a stance line which can be adjusted both with respect to its distance from the flight line and with respect to its angle.
  • the present invention provides apparatus for teaching or correcting the stance of a golfer when addressing a golf ball, including a mat covering an area big enough to accommodate both feet of the golfer when adopting an addressing stance, in which the mat is marked with a ball line of alternative ball positions aligned with the intended line of flight of a golf ball, and in which the line has associated with it indicia indicating the positions along the line at which a golf ball should be placed when it is to be struck with a golf club of specified weight or number, and in which the mat has means defining at least one stance line which is at a preferably adjustable position from the ball line and which subtends an acute angle with the ball line.
  • the apparatus may include a suitable stand for the ball, designed to be placed on the line and to support the ball above the mat at a level corresponding to the optimum level above the ground of a teed-up ball.
  • the golf professional can identify for the trainee golfer the appropriate stance line for any particular wood or iron and this can be noted down and used subsequently by the trainee when he or she wishes to practice without the professional.
  • the ball line has three alternative ball positions designed to correspond with a comfortable position for placing the ball to be struck with woods, long irons and short irons respectively.
  • a flexible upstanding guide designed to be positioned such that it lies above the surface of the mat and extends from a planar section positioned adjacent to the side of the ball line remote from the user and substantially at the position of the ball on the tee to an arcuate section which extends to cross over the ball line so that its free end lies between the feet of the user and the ball line.
  • the guide thus serves to define an arcuate path which is the optimum path of the head of the club as it approaches the ball.
  • the guide is untouched and does not move. If, on the other hand, the club is swung such that the ball follows not the intended flight path or line of flight but a path angled towards the golfer, the club will hit the arcuate portion of the guide and give a clear indication to the golfer that the portion of the swing just before the contact of the head of the ball was too far away, so the ball will swing in.
  • the club will hit that part of the guide immediately adjacent the initial portion of the flight path.
  • the guide is preferably made of resilient and impact resistant plastics so that it is not damaged by being hit by a club, but it is extremely easy for the trainee golfer to see whether he is swinging the club in such a way as to make the ball go to the left or the right of the intended line of flight.
  • This form of guide preferably has means enabling it to be secured relative to the ball line, for example by being traversed by a tee which passes through part of the guide and part of the ball line.
  • the apparatus shown in the drawings comprises a mat 2 of rubber or other non-slip material which is hard-wearing.
  • the mat has moulded into it, or applied to it, various indicia as described below.
  • the mat is preferably provided on one or both faces with ribs (not shown) extending parallel with the short edges of the mat to enable it to be easily rolled up for storage and laid flat for use.
  • the underside of the mat may have webbing strips attached which can be tied together or otherwise fixed, e.g., with a burr fastener, to hold the mat rolled up.
  • the strips may incorporate loops enabling the mat to be hung up flat on two speed hooks, if desired.
  • its main body 2 may be of plastics material with a surface of simulated grass.
  • the club labels and the stance strip(s) symbols could then be printed on plastics labels which could then be welded or otherwise adhered to the simulated grass.
  • the first indicium is a ball line 4, consisting of a stripe of contrasting colour near one short edge of the mat, to form a 'ball line' intended to be on or parallel to the intended line of flight or flight path of a golf ball positioned on a suitable tee set on the line at the time it is to be struck by a golfer having his or her feet on the body of the mat.
  • a ball line 4 In parallel with the ball line 4 is a row of numbers in three groups spaced-apart from each other by non-uniform distances. One group of numbers is intended to show where a golf ball is to be positioned on ball line 4 when the golfer is using any of four woods.
  • the respective numbers are applied to the surface of the mat 2 in a colour which a clear contrast therewith, such as red.
  • the legend 'woods' of which the letters may also be of the same colour.
  • any style of lettering may be used.
  • one group is dedicated to the longer irons, and is differentiated visually from the numbers associated with woods, as by the numbers themselves being printed on a background of yellow or contrasting colour, with the legend 'irons' being applied adjacent thereto in any convenient and permanent manner.
  • the position of the ball when being addressed by the shorter irons is indicated by the remaining group of numbers, which are shown in yet another contrasting colour, such as beige, with the associated legend 'irons' being printed in black on a rectangular background also of beige.
  • the letter 'W' is included with the shorter irons, as corresponding to where the ball is to be positioned on line 4 when intended to be hit with a wedge.
  • stance strips 12, 14 and 16 Permanently positioned on mat 2 are three stance strips 12, 14 and 16.
  • a golfer is intended to position the toes of his or her shoes in line with the axis of strip 12, or with one of its associated 'phantom' strips 12a.
  • the golfer is intended to use stance line 14 or its associated phantom lines when using the longer irons, and strip 16 or sub-strips 16a when using the shorter irons.
  • the particular line or axis to be used for aligning the tips of the golfers shoes is usually found pragmatically, either by the golfer himself, or when assisted by a professional.
  • the phantom strips in effect delineate a series of lines diverging at successive angles from the axis of the main strip.
  • the phantom lines may be provided with a series of references, so that when a golfer is using say a number 2 wood, he knows from his experience that he should position his feet aligned with say, line 12-5, in the case where the phantom lines are numbered from, say, 1 to 6.
  • the distances of the main stance lines 12 to 16 from line 4 are fixed, and correspond to where the feature be positioned of a golfer of average height, taller or shorter golfers may position their shoes so that they are forward of their respective stance line, in the case of shorter golfers, or further away from the respective stance line, in the case of taller golfers. In all cases, the tips of the golfer's shoes should be positioned on a line parallel with the respective stance line and at a distance from that line which has been found by experiment and/or tuition.
  • the ball line 4 is in the same position on the mat 2 as in Figure 1.
  • a minor change is that the numbers of the respective sub-groups of clubs are placed on labels 6, 8 and 10 of different colours which contrast with each other and with the green of the main body of the mat.
  • the sight lines 22 are of use in helping the golfer to ensure that the face of his club is always parallel with a sight line 22 when approaching and contacting the ball at the respective point on line 4. It has been found that the golfer is able to detect any divergence between the club face and the respective sight lines as the club comes in focus when approaching the ball. This serves to help the golfer to perfect his or her grip on the club to reduce or remove any tendency to hook or slice.
  • each stance line 12 to 16 are adjustable.
  • each stance line is formed from a strip of tough plastics material, such as of polymethylmethacrylate, having its main body coloured white, but having a transparent end portion 19 with a centre line 20 extending along the axis of the strip.
  • a stud 23 At one end of the strip, and projecting from the underface thereof, is a stud 23 which is able to be inserted into any of a line of metal sockets 18 embedded in the material of the mat.
  • the sockets 18 are aligned perpendicularly to line 4, and each has a reference letter positioned alongside it to identify it. As shown, letters are used, but of course numbers or other symbols could be used similarly.
  • a strip 21 of a colour contrasting with the background colour of the mat Positioned in parallel with the line of sockets 18 is a strip 21 of a colour contrasting with the background colour of the mat.
  • a series of marks or references On the strip 21 is a series of marks or references. If marks are used, then alongside the strip is a series of symbols, so that the marks are uniquely identified and enable the line of sockets 18 and the strip 21 to function as a coördinate system by means of which the strip 16 may be reliably repositioned on the mat surface in exactly the same position as it was on a previous occasion when its coördinates were noted.
  • the sockets 18 may take the form of hollow rivets extending through the body of the material of the mat 2, in which case the rivets would form a series of sockets on the other face of the mat.
  • the markings shown in the Figures is intended to be reproduced on the other face of the mat 2, but orientated to accommodate a left-handed golfer.
  • the sockets appearing on the 'wrong face of the mat can be ignored by the golfer as they will have no references associated with them, thus indicating that they are not to be used, whereas it will be clear to such a golfer which line of sockets and which respective reference line 21 he would be intended to use.
  • the weight-bearing surfaces of the mat may be covered with a tough looped-pile fabric, while the undersurface of most of the length of each strip is covered with a fabric presenting resilient hooks, to provide two fabrics able to act as burr-fastening material of the type sold under the trade mark VELCRO.
  • the line of sockets 18 would be replaced by a line of reference symbols, similar to line 21 of Figure 2, to indicate unambiguously with what the respective end of the stance strip should be aligned.
  • the strip After the strip has been so aligned with the reference symbols at both ends thereof, the strip is pressed down on top of the mat, as by the golfer's feet, to cause the hooks to become embedded firmly in the looped-pile fabric, thus holding the stance strip firmly in position against accidental displacement by the golfer's feet when addressing and striking the ball.
  • the mat 2 may have permanently secured to it three pairs of parallel strips of looped-pile fabric extending substantially perpendicular to ball line 4.
  • Each stance strip may have two patches of hooked-pile fabric secured to its underside, so that each strip may be secured to its respective pair of looped-pile strips to extend between them at a desired angle to the ball line, and at a chosen distance therefrom.
  • the mat may be divided either physically or notionally into a graticule permitting small areas of its surface to be identified by some coördinate system, such as (x,y) or (r, ⁇ ).
  • Each mat may be sold with a look-up table setting out the coördinate positions of where both ends of a strip should be located to mark the toe-line of a golfer of known height and stance, when using a club associated with that strip.
  • the two points or areas indicated by the table are identified or marked, and the marks on the respective strip are aligned with them before the strip is pressed down into position, from which it can be removed by force when it needs to be re-positioned for use by a golfer of different height and/or stance.
  • the mat may be sold with a look-up table devised by the manufacturer, it is preferred for the golfer to produce his or her own look-up table, based on his club professional's advice and/or his or her own experience.
  • the golfer selects a particular club and positions his or her ball on a suitable support stand which is placed on line 4 in line with the symbols corresponding to that club.
  • the golfer positions on the mat at least that stance strip corresponding to the club intended to be used.
  • the golfer positions the strip with its ends at the two points indicated by his or the manufacturer's look-up table, and then presses the stance strip firmly into place.
  • the golfer positions his or her feet on the mat at a comfortable distance apart and in the appropriate position relative to the stance strip. If his or her natural stance places his or her feet at a distance apart less than the length of the respective stance strip, then his or her feet are positioned equal distances from both ends of the respective strip.
  • Teeing up may be effected by using a modified tee having a foot backed with a hook-pile fabric to mate with a strip of looped-pile fabric extending along the line 4.
  • the ball line 4 may also be used to improve putting performance. Placing his ball on the line, the golfer would adjust the position of his feet relatively to the line until the ball travels along the line consistently when struck. Ultimately, when doing so, the golfer's feet are able to be positioned relative to a stance strip so that, although that stance strip is intended to be used with another golf club, its coördinates may make it useful when the golfer is using a putter.
  • the ball is intended to be positioned on one of only three positions when using any of the regular clubs. Each of these positions is indicated by a rectangular area 24 extending perpendicularly to line 4. Each area 24 has associated with it a label 30 of beige or other contrasting colour having on it the numbers and types of the clubs which are to be used when a ball is positioned at the intersection of area 24 and ball line 4. Each area 24 may be of the colour associated with the particular sub-group of clubs, as already discussed in connection with the previous embodiments, leaving the line 4 white to make a stronger visual impression on the golfer.
  • a reference line 26 Extending perpendicularly to line 4 from each area 24 is a reference line 26, likewise of a colour which contrasts with the visible surface of mat 2.
  • the lines 26 end short of line 4, so as not to reduce its visual impact, although the centre line is longer to act as a pointer to the central ball spot 32.
  • the surface of the mat is provided with two lines of patches 28 of looped-pile fabric.
  • the under surface of the stance strip 12 has its ends covered with patches 29 of hook-pile fabric.
  • Each line of patches 28 has reference symbols associated with it so that the stance strip 12 may be arranged to be pressed into contact with any patch 28 in each series, so as to ensure that the strip 12 extends at any desired angle to the axis of ball line 4, and at an appropriate distance therefrom.
  • the strip 12 would have the coördinates C5.
  • the strip 12 is held in position on the mat against accidental displacement does not form part of the subject-matter of this invention.
  • the hollow rivets and studs may be replaced by VELCRO fasteners.
  • the strip 12 may even have a stud at one end and a VELCRO patch at the other, to cooperate with a line of rivets and a line of patches.
  • a right-handed golfer will place his left foot with his toe against strip 12 and the inner side of his shoe at a tangent to the left-most reference line 26. His right foot would then be positioned at any other area of the mat surface at which his stance is of the appropriate width for the club being used and with strip 12 being tangential to the toe of his shoe.
  • the mats would be sold by or through professional golfers.
  • a look-up table could be dispensed with.
  • the pro could adjust the position of the feet of the tyro on a pragmatic basis for all the clubs that he or she would use.
  • the coördinates of its ends would be noted in a personal look-up table, to permit the strips to have their positions changed for use with different clubs, and perhaps by different golfers, and later reattached to the mat.
  • FIG 4 shows in plan view a further form of mat in accordance with the invention
  • the mat consists basically of a rectangular area of plastics simulated turf material (for example that sold under the Registered Trade Mark ASTROTURF). Adjacent the top edge of the mat as shown in the drawing is an inset white strip for defining the desired line of flight line. This is inset from the upper surface of the plastics "grass" on the mat and has three circular apertures 40 which register with apertures in the base of the mat itself.
  • inset in the simulated grass are three short labels 42 which bear printing (not shown in the drawing) identifying the relevant club to use with the associated hole 40.
  • the left hand label may read 1, 2 3 & 5 woods and the centre and right hand labels refer to appropriate numbers and long irons and short irons respectively.
  • the upper surface of simulated plastics grass mats consists essentially of the ends of a set of upstanding strips or bristles. Such a surface presents a high friction surface both for someone standing on the mat and also for anything placed on the mat.
  • the stance line is defined by a bar 50 which is simply laid on the top of the mat.
  • the bar 50 has a cross section consisting of a lightly arched base with an upstanding rib on it. The edges of the base tend to dig in very slightly to the surface of the simulated turf and render the bar resistant to movement once it has been placed in position by the user.
  • the placement is, as explained above, effected in accordance with the advice of the teacher having regard to the particular club proposed to be used by the golfer and, of course, having regard to the golfer's height and build.
  • the position of bar 50 may simply be designated as "C5".
  • the mat cooperates with an indicator to assist the user perfecting his swing.
  • the indicator consists of a base member 60 having an aperture 62 and a short mounting rail 63 for receipt of the swing indicator strip described below.
  • the base member 60 may be hinged at 61 to enable it to be folded to a convenient size for being kept inside the rolled up mat, but is preferably of the extent shown so that it sits underneath the mat and is firmly held in position.
  • aperture 62 is registered with one of the apertures 40 and movement is prevented in a translational direction parallel to strip 4 by the tee which is inserted through aperture 62 and then aperture 40 when the mat is first set up.
  • Aperture 62 is elongate so enabling the swing guide member to be positioned with mounting rail 63 adjacent the top edge of mat 2 as shown in Figure 4 or slightly spaced therefrom. When it is slightly spaced therefrom, there is also a certain small rotational freedom of movement about the axis of the tee which passes through aperture 62.
  • a guide blade 64 which consists of a strip of tough preferably transparent plastics material, most conveniently a tough polycarbonate material such as those sold under the trade mark LEXAN. As can be seen, this has a straight section bearing a rail 65 which is a press fit with rail 63 and an arcuate section which extends, when rail 65 is set into rail 63, over base 60.
  • the arcuate portion of the blade 66 extends above the surface of mat 2 and curves across the edge of the mat and then across strip 4. The arcuate portion 66 is preformed to a shape corresponding to the desired path of the head of the club as it approaches a ball seated on a tee set in one of the apertures 40.
  • the swing guide provides an easily detectable indication of whether the user of the mat has, on any particular occasion, swung the club to pass substantially along the desired path (in which case the club will not touch any part of the upstanding blade 64, or whether the swing was rotated, relative to a notional vertical axis passing through the user, slightly clockwise as seen in Figure 4 (in which case the end of the blade 64 adjacent the rail 65 will be impacted by the club head) or slightly anti-clockwise (in which case the arcuate blade 66 will be struck.
  • This provides an easy visual indication of the correctness or otherwise of the user's swing.
  • the present invention provides a mat by means of which golfers may be enabled to place their feet relative to a ball in a position projected mentally from the mat of this invention and known to be appropriate to the club to be used to hit the ball.

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  1. Vorrichtung zum Unterrichten oder Korrigieren des Standes eines Golfere beim Anspielen eines Golfballes, mit einer Matte (2), die eine ausreichend große Fläche abdeckt, um beide Füße des Golfers aufzunehmen, wenn er einen Stand zum Anspielen einnimmt, wobei die Matte mit einer Ballinie (4) aus alternativen Ballpositionen markiert ist, die auf die beabsichtigte Fluglinie eines Golfballs ausgerichtet ist, und wobei der Linie Zeichen zugeordnet sind, welche die Positionen entlang der Linie angeben, an denen ein Golfball angeordnet werden soll, wenn er mit einem Golfschläger mit einem speziellen Gewicht oder einer speziellen Nummer abgeschlagen werden soll, und wobei die Matte ein Mittel aufweist, das mindestens eine Standlinie (12, 14, 16) festlegt, die von der Ballinie beabstandet ist und mit ihr einen spitzen Winkel bildet.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, bei der die Matte (2) aus zwei Teilen hergestellt ist, die einstellbar aneinander befestigt sind, wobei ein Teil die Ballinie (4) und der andere Teil mindestens eine darauf festgelegte Standlinie (12, 14, 16) aufweist.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, bei der auf der Mitte (2) drei Standlinien (12, 14, 16) festgelegt sind, von denen jede in einem anderen Abstand von der Ballinie (4) und unter einem anderen Winkel hierzu angeordnet ist.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, bei der die Standlinie oder die Standlinien (12, 14, 16) an einer Oberfläche der Matte (2) abnehmbar befestigt werden kann, so daß sie sich darauf zwischen vorgegebenen Punkten erstrecken.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, bei der die Ballpositionen auf der Ballinie (4), die benutzt werden sollen, wenn der Golfer ein Holz verwendet, visuell von jenen Ballpositionen unterscheidbar sind, die benutzt werden sollen, wenn der Golfer Eisen verwendet.
  6. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 5, bei der die Positionen, welche den Eisen mit niedrigeren Nummern zugeordnet werden sollen, visuell weiter unterscheidbar sind von jenen, die den Eisen mit höheren Nummern zugeordnet sind.
  7. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 3 oder einem der davon abhängigen Ansprüche, bei der jede Standlinie (12, 14, 16) die gleichen ihr zugeordneten sichtbaren Zeichen aufweist wie die Zahlen, die den Ballpositionen für den entsprechenden Teilsatz der Schläger zugeordnet ist.
  8. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, bei der sich die Ballinie (4) über die kürzere Breite einer Matte (2) erstreckt, die einen Boden aus Gummi oder einem ähnlichen elastischen Material aufweist, wobei die Ballinie vom Rest der Mattenfläche und von der oder jeder Standlinie visuell unterscheidbar ist.
  9. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4 oder jedem davon abhängigen Anspruch, bei der jeder Streifen, der eine Standlinie (12, 14, 16) bedeutet, eine Rückechicht aus einem Material aufweist, das durch Anwenden von Kraft auf die freie Seite des Streifens an einer Oberflächenschicht der Matte abnehmbar befestigt werden kann.
  10. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, bei der die Ballinie (4) von einer Mehrzahl von Sichtlinien gekreuzt wird, die sich senkrecht zur Achse der Ballinie erstrecken, wobei die Sichtlinien von der Ballinie visuell unterscheidbar sind, um als Orientierungshilfe für die Köpfe von Golfschlägern zu dienen.
  11. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4 oder einem davon abhängigen Anspruch, bei der die Matte (2) eine Reihe von Steckhülsen (18) in Längsanordnung aufweist, die jeder Standlinie zugeordnet ist, und bei der von einem Ende jedes Standetreifens ein Stift (23) vorsteht, der in irgendeine Steckhülse eingesetzt werden kann, um als Drehpunkt für den Streifen zu dienen.
  12. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, bei welcher in dem Bereich der Matte (2), auf dem eine Standlinie einstellbar positioniert werden soll, ein Streifen aus einem lösbaren Befestigungsmaterial angebracht ist, der mit einem Ende eines Standetreifens in Eingriff gebracht werden kann, wobei sich der Bestigungsstreifen im wesentlichen senkrecht zur Ballinie erstreckt.
  13. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 12, bei der in jedem Bereich ein Paar paralleler Streifen aus einem lösbaren Befestigungsmaterial angebracht ist, so daß das Ende jedes Standetreifens an irgendeiner Stelle entlang der Länge des Befestigungestreifens befestigt sein kann, so daß sich der Standstreifen zwischen dem Paar der Befestigungsstreifen in irgendeinem gewählten Winkel bezüglich der Achse der Ballinie erstreckt.
  14. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, die ferner eine Golfschlagführungsvorrichtung mit einem Bodenelement (60) und einer nach oben stehenden flexiblen Führung (64, 66) aufweist, wobei die Führung derart einteilbar ist, daß sie oberhalb der Oberfläche der Matte liegt und sich von einem ebenen Abschnitt (64), der neben der Ballinie von dem Benutzer entfernt und im wesentlichen an der Position des Balls auf dein Tee-Stück angeordnet ist, bis zu einem bogenförmigen Abschnitt (66) hin verläuft, der sich derart über die Ballinie hinweg erstreckt, daß sein freies Ende zwischen den Füßen eines Benutzers und der Ballinie liegt.
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