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If You Record Your Swing at the Course or on the Range, I Bet You Would Buy This Product!

By David Dawsey PE Esq

Are you one of those golf nuts that records their swings and analyzes every last aspect of it? If so, you will love this little product. The drawings from a patent application that published this week do a better job of describing the invention and I can do with words. Check it out!

The patent application published as US Pub. No. 20090057503 titled ?Golf Club Stand Assembly? and describes the invention as:

[0002] A variety of different devices and systems for helping a golfer to improve his or her golf game exist. With the arrival of relatively inexpensive video-recording devices, such as camcorders, more and more athletes have been recording their performance (or having their performance recorded) for later evaluation, either by themselves or by a coach. However, the present inventor has discovered that recording one's own performance when golfing alone often is difficult and cumbersome.

[0003] The present invention addresses this problem by, among other things, providing devices and methods with which a golfer can assemble a stand from several golf clubs. In the preferred embodiments, such a stand is implemented as a camera tripod, having legs that predominantly are golf clubs.

[0004] Thus, in one aspect the invention is directed to systems, methods and techniques for assembling an elevated stand, in which is obtained a platform assembly having a number of legs and a number of golf clubs, each golf club having a distal end for a golf club head and a proximal end that includes a small opening. A stand is constructed by inserting each of the legs into the small opening in a different one of the golf clubs, and the stand is positioned so that the distal ends of the golf clubs rest on a supporting surface.

[0005] By virtue of the foregoing arrangement, it often will be possible for a golfer to quickly and easily set up an elevated stand with the use of a relatively small device and several golf clubs that already are present in his or her bag. As a result, an elevated stand can be assembled without having to carry around a large additional device, such as a tripod. As noted above, in the preferred embodiments of these stand is used as a camera tripod. However, such a stand can be used for a variety of other purposes, such as for holding a towel.

Now, if that little gadget was priced right, it would sell!

Dave Dawsey  - Watching Golf Swing / Training Inventions

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Full post as published by Golf Patents on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).