Scale mark mat for putting practice

Abstract

The present invention relates to a rectangle mat for putting practice. The mat includes a cylindrical stopper, an imitative hole cup mark thereon, and a putting line straightly drawn along the center on the mat and divided by the square scales for eye measurement. According to the present invention, three requisites of putt for hitting the golf ball to the intended direction and distance; a) the putter is swung straight along the putting line; b) the golf ball is stroked with the putter face square to the putting line; and c) the backswing length is accurately determined according to the condition of the putt; are practiced by; first, numerating and calculating the backswing length for the putt by the number of the scales, second, by objectifying and determining the backswing spot and throughswing spot on the putting line, then, by putting straight from the backswing spot to the throughswing spot for one second by the seesaw movement of the shoulders, keeping and stopping the putter face square to the putting line at each of the two spots. And the putting techniques are checked and improved by observing the speed and trajectory of the ball passing the imitative hole cup mark.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims priority to and the benefit of Korean Utility Model Application No. 20-2004-0024001 filed on Aug. 23, 2004 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] (a) Field of the Invention [0003] The present invention relates to golf practice apparatus. More specifically, the present invention relates to a putting practice mat for improving putting techniques in the room. [0004] (b) Description of the Related Art [0005] Golf is a game in which players hit a ball from the teeing-off ground into the hole on the green through a fairway with three types of golf clubs; the Wood, the Iron, and the Putter. It has been a highly popular sports game. [0006] One round of a golf game consists of 18 holes, and the par strokes are 72 for the 18 holes. Almost half the strokes in a round of golf are likely to be putts, and accordingly, the pu...

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Benefits of technology

[0043] In addition, the rectangular mat is non-woven fabric with turfy effect.

Problems solved by technology

In addition, various factors such as length and kind of the turf, weather conditions, and optical illusion caused by surroundings affect adversely in determining the direction and speed of the golf ball.

As described, assessing the green is very difficult.

However, while playing a game of golf, you may not measure the green conditions by tools according to the golf rules, and it can only be studied by yourself with your own experience and senses.

Secondly, you must have the ability to stroke the golf ball accurately to an intended direction at an intended initial speed.

No matter how accurately you assess the green conditions, if you don't actually hit the ball to the intended direction at the intended speed like a robot without delicate errors, the putt will fail.

However, the putting by the arc trajectory is a little inconsistent as mentioned later, and when basing on such feelings of the hands which can be ambiguous and subjective, putting cannot be finely controlled, and therefore the putting is usually not so consistent nor repeatable.

When a putting trajectory is in the shape of an arc, the hands or arms will manipulate the putt unconsciously to compensate the centrifugal force of the putter head at the time hitting the ball, and therefore, the arc trajectory of the swing is unstable and the length of the swing is inaccurately controlled.

Furthermore, an opening and closing of a putter face is caused.

As a result, the accuracy of the direction of the ball is reduced at the time of impact.

However, according to the conventional arc trajectory putting method, putting stroke is apt to become unstable because it is difficult to manipulate the putter face to be precisely square at the time of the impact with the feeling of the hands.

In addition, the putting stroke based on feeling of the hands is not consistent nor repeatable since it is difficult to precisely control the impact strength.

When the wrists, hands, and / or fingers are used together with the shoulders, the putting stroke may fail because power become unbalanced and unexpected motion can be resulted.

It is difficult to control the backswing length when the backswing length is controlled by the feeling of the hands.

Specifically, it is more difficult to concurrently control the backswing length and the direction of the ball.

However, there isn't any thing adequate to practice the objectified three requisites of putt.

If the putting line on the mat is not equally divided, it is difficult to learn definitely the sense of the backswing length.

More specifically, it is impossible to utilize the system of evaluating of the backswing length in numerical value (number of scales) that is later described in detail.

The conventional of putting practice mats have been made to emphasize the practice of putting the ball into the hole cup, so it is not suitable for practicing long or medium distance putting.

But every part of the straight putting line of this mat points to the target mark, saving you the trouble of aligning the line-up line of your ball toward the target mark by just placing the ball centrally on the lineup line every time you practice.

However, the conventional putting practice mat does not provide a function for such situation.

In addition, the conventional of putting practice mat does not provide means to check whether the putter face is square to the putting line while addressing and swinging the putter, and therefore it has been difficult to find and correct the errors in keeping square putter face.

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