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Method to allow simple selection and interchangeability of golf putters and shafts

Method to allow simple selection and interchangeability of golf putters and shafts description/claims

1. Technical Field

This application relates to a method to allow simple selection and interchangeability of golf putters and shafts.

2. Background Information

A golfer is confronted with many choices when selecting a new putter, such as the look, the feel, and the weight of the putter. A golfer may like a certain kind of head on a putter, but not the shaft that comes with it. It is also possible that a putter may have a shaft that a golfer likes, but not the right putter head. A golfer may even like both the putter head and the putter shaft, but not the lie angle or face angle of the putter.

Even if a golfer likes everything about a putter, he or she may not like the color or the length of the shaft. It could be too long or it may be too short. It may have a handle that does not have the right grip for that individual. There are so many choices, and yet a person often may just settle for something that is not right for him or her.

Common existing methods join a putter head and a shaft with a two part epoxy to create a solid joint when cured together, and the two parts become one unit: the finished putter. There are many variations of putter styles, and they often use a male or female fit with a joining compound such as epoxy to assemble them. Although some putters allow a slight adjustment to be made to the shaft by bending it to change the angle of the shaft or the face angle of the putter head, generally once these putters are assembled, very little can be done to change their characteristics. Hence, a buyer is stuck with the putter that the club manufacturer has made. With this type of “fixed” putter, a golfer could look at and try numerous putters before ever finding one to purchase that meets the preferred look, feel, and weight. It is also entirely possible that a golfer may still be dissatisfied with a putter even after purchasing it.

Having the flexibility to select a putter that has all of the desired features previously mentioned can greatly increase the ease of selecting a putter and even more importantly improve a golfer's game. If a golfer has the ability to mix and match a putter head with a putter shaft, and at the same time be able to adjust any of the other variables, selecting and purchasing a putter would be much easier. Even if a golfer has the ability to essentially custom build a putter, the putter must meet certain requirements to be considered “legal” according to the United States Golf Association (USGA).

An object of at least one possible embodiment of the present application is to teach a method to allow simple selection and interchangeability of golf putters and shafts.

At least one possible embodiment of the present application teaches a method to allow simple selection and interchangeability of golf putters and shafts, in which a person searching for a new putter has an opportunity to select a putter head and a putter shaft and make adjustments to suit individual preferences.

The above-discussed embodiments of the present invention will be described further hereinbelow. When the word “invention” or “embodiment of the invention” is used in this specification, the word “invention” or “embodiment of the invention” includes “inventions” or “embodiments of the invention”, that is the plural of “invention” or “embodiment of the invention”. By stating “invention” or “embodiment of the invention”, the Applicant does not in any way admit that the present application does not include more than one patentably and non-obviously distinct invention, and maintains that this application may include more than one patentably and non-obviously distinct invention. The Applicant hereby asserts that the disclosure of this application may include more than one invention, and, in the event that there is more than one invention, that these inventions may be patentable and non-obvious one with respect to the other.

The invention is explained in greater detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIGS. 1-3 show traditional “fixed putters”;

FIG. 4 shows one possible embodiment of an interchangeable putter and shaft;

FIG. 5 shows a simplified drawing of a human hip joint;

FIG. 6 is a schematic drawing of one possible embodiment of an interchangeable golf putter head and golf putter shaft;

FIG. 7 is an overhead view of one possible embodiment of a golf putter shaft in a set position;

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