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Golf putting and training aidRelated Patent Categories: Games Using Tangible Projectile, Golf, Practice Swingable Implement Or Indicator Associated With Swingable Implement, Swingable Implement Swing Path IndicatorGolf putting and training aid description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20050261076, Golf putting and training aid. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] The present invention relates to devices and methods for the improvement of golf strokes and, more particularly to the improvement in consistency of a player's putting stroke. BACKGROUND [0002] Many factors influence the successful execution of a golf putting stroke. Amongst these is the recognized desirability for a player to maintain a position wherein his line of sight is vertically above the ball. A further desirable factor is the need for consistency of the height of a player's head above the ball and that his or her head remains still during the making of the stroke. In addition, it is important that a player makes a consistent stroke for a given desired initial velocity of the ball. [0003] Another desirable aspect of a putting stroke executed on a sloping green is to be able to recognize the "break point" or "break area", that is the approximate position from the point of impact at which the ball departs from an initial generally straight line due to its initial velocity, to curve away when the slope of the green becomes the predominant influence. [0004] Golf putting aids for training a player to become proficient in meeting some but not all of these conditions are known. Thus for example U.S. Pat. No. 5,913,732 discloses a putting teaching aid utilizing a raised string line defining a putting line with a reflective surface near ground level at a distal end. [0005] By placing a ball directly beneath the line and by a player sighting along the line so that the line and its image in the reflective surface appear coincident, at least the first but only the first desirable aspect of a putting stroke is realized. There are no means provided for maintaining the line of sight vertically above the ball both in the plane passing through the putting line and a plane through the ball at right angles to the line. [0006] Nor is there a provision for assessing the consistency of stroke length for a given impact velocity or of assessing a consistency of break point. [0007] It is an object of the present invention to address or at least ameliorate some of the above disadvantages. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION [0008] Accordingly there is provided in a first broad form of the invention a golf putting training aid comprising a raised putting line stretched between respective front an rear reference fixtures; said putting line provided with an adjustable reference marker. [0009] Preferably, said reference marker and a ball placed directly below said marker define a sighting line substantially normal to a putting surface; said line being a first determinant of the position of a user's head relative to said ball. [0010] Preferably, said respective front and rear reference fixtures each include a respective front and rear target object disposed directly under said raised putting line. [0011] Preferably, putting line is further provided with respective front and rear adjustable reference markers; each said reference marker adapted for positioning relative to each respective said target object so as to define a sloping front sighting line and a sloping rear sighting line such that said front sighting line and said rear sighting line intersect on said sighting line substantially normal to said putting surface to define a second determinant of the position of the head of a user. [0012] Preferably, said first and second determinant enable a user to maintain his or her head at a position directly above said ball and at a consistent height above said ball for repeated training strokes for a given ball position relative to said front and rear reference markers. [0013] Preferably, said training aid further comprising first and second side lines disposed on either side of and parallel to said putting line; said side lines stretched between said front and rear reference fixtures at a height above the putting surface so as to allow a golf ball to pass under said side lines. [0014] Preferably, each of said first and second side lines is provided with at least a pair of adjustable reference markers; said reference markers adapted to indicate a notional enclosing box having one end rearward of a golf ball and an opposite end forward of said golf ball so as to define the backswing and follow-through of a putting stroke. [0015] Preferably, each said first and second side lines is provided with at least one additional adjustable reference marker to said pair of adjustable reference markers adapted to indicate a notional transverse line for the aligning of a striking face of a putter at right angles to said putting line when said putter is in an address position relative to a ball. [0016] Preferably, a pair of adjustable reference markers is further adapted to be positioned on their respective side line forward of said golf ball in said address position so as to define a notional exit gate for a golf ball in a breaking putt when said training aid is used on a sloping surface. [0017] Preferably, said putting line and said first and second side lines are elastic lines stretched between respective support posts on each said respective front and rear reference fixture. [0018] Preferably, said reference markers are beads adjustably attached to said putting line and said first and second side lines. [0019] Preferably, said front and rear target objects are white discs. [0020] Preferably, said front and rear target objects are white hemispheres. [0021] Preferably, said training aid is further provided with at least one putting surface; said putting surface comprising a strip of flexible material adapted to stretch between and under said front and rear reference fixtures. [0022] Preferably, said putting surface is provided in a variety of textured surfaces; said variety of textured surfaces simulating different running characteristics of putting green surfaces. Continue reading about Golf putting and training aid... Full patent description for Golf putting and training aid Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Golf putting and training aid patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. 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