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What Would You Think if a Playing Companion Pulled Out This Invention to Help Them Get Aligned to the Target?

By David Dawsey PE Esq

I don?t know what I would do if a playing partner pulled this invention out and started lining up shots. Well, yes I do. First, I would laugh and ridicule them a bit, and then I would probably end up trying it and asking to borrow it. This interesting alignment tool is found in a patent that issued today as USPN 7607988 titled ?Golf Alignment and Targeting System.? The patent describes the invention as:  

A golf alignment and targeting aid is a simple, durable, lightweight and easily portable device which provides golfers with a straight, clear and accurate view of their target by allowing the golfer to visualize the target several feet in front of the golf ball, eliminating the need for the golfer to visualize targets that vary in great distances, and enabling the golfer to keep his/her head down without the need to look up toward the target.

Check out this tool and description of how to use it.

FIGS. 2-6 illustrate the method of using the golf alignment and targeting aid to align and aim a golf shot. As shown in FIG. 2, the target sight disc 18 is first removably attached to the tip 14 through the magnetic attraction between the embedded magnet 36 and the magnetic material comprising the tip 14. As shown in FIG. 3, a golfer 24 then positions him/herself on a ground behind a golf ball 22 so as to establish a straight and unobstructed sight line 26 to a target 20. Next, the golfer 24 grasps the shaft 10 by its proximal end and raises it so that the sight 12 is aligned with the sight line 26 to the target 20.

As depicted in FIG. 4, the golfer 24 then lowers the shaft 10 through the plane formed by the sight line 26 and the golf ball 22, which plane intersects the ground to form a target line 28 between the target 20 and the golf ball 22. The golfer 24 lowers the shaft 10 to the point at which the target sight disc 18 rests on ground along the target line 28. As depicted in FIGS. 5A, 5B and 5C, the target sight disc 18 is next detached from the tip 14 by sliding the tip 14 downward along the surface of the target sight disc 18 until it reaches the ground and separates from target sight disc 18 and is clear of the attraction of the embedded magnet 36.

As seen in FIG. 5B, during the process of sliding 34 the tip 14 off the top and down the side of the target sight disc 18, the golfer 24 must apply a light downward pressure 32 onto the target sight disc 18 so that the target sight disc 18 will stay in its proper position on the ground along the target line 28 while being detached from the tip 14. The pressure 32 is applied by pushing down on the shaft 10, which in turn applies pressure 32 down the shaft 10 to the tip 14 and onto the target sight disc 18, such that the target sight disc 18 is held in its proper position on the ground, while allowing the tip 14, as seen in FIG. 5C, to slid 34 away free and clear from the magnetic attraction 38 of the embedded magnet 36 within the target sight disc 18.

It?s just a matter of time before we see one of these used on tour.

Dave Dawsey  - Keeping an Eye on Golf Inventions

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Full post as published by Golf Patents on October 27, 2009 (boomark / email).