Golf tee setting device

Abstract

A golf tee setting device including an elongated body and a retaining bracket affixed to the bottom of the elongated body. The retaining bracket includes a tee retaining foot for supporting the enlarged head at the top of a golf tee. The foot is provided with a keyhole slot for snugly receiving therein the enlarged head of the golf tee. A tee retaining shoe is positioned below the foot. The shoe has a channel aligned with the keyhole slot for loosely engaging the tapered bottom end of the golf tee. A retaining arm is slidably secured to the elongated body above the retaining bracket. The arm has a cup at its bottom for selectively pressing a golf ball, positioned atop a tee in said keyhole slot, toward the bracket.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates generally to games using a tangible projectile and, more particularly, to tee setting devices for playing golf. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] In executing some golf shots, a tee is used to elevate a golf ball above the ground for striking by the head of a club. Before the ball can be struck, however, it must be balanced atop the tee whose tapered bottom end is manually inserted a short distance into the ground. As golfers age, they frequently find themselves unable to perform this basic golfing task. Repeated stooping and crouching hurts their backs and knees too much. [0003] Noting this problem, devices for setting a tee into the ground have been proposed by some. For the most part, these devices have been cumbersome affairs with springs and catches for holding the ball on the tee making such almost as difficult to master as gripping and swinging a golf club. More importantly, these devices have tended to loosely grip...

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Benefits of technology

[0004] In light of the problems associated with the known tee setting devices including the need to take “Mulligans” while using them, it is a principal object of the invention to provide a golf tee setting device that permits a golfer to insert a golf tee in a manner that minimizes the likelihood that the tee will tip over and spill a ball positioned atop the tee onto the ground. The claimed device does this by engaging the tee at two spaced-apart locations for optimum stability while setting the tee in either hard or soft soils.

[0005] Still another object of the invention is to provide a golf tee setting device of the type described that features a ground-engaging shoe that assists a golfer in inserting a tee to the best depth into the ground. Thus, use of the tee setting device allows a golfer to repeat the positioning of a tee relative to the ground every time the device is used thereby allowing a golfer to strike the ball with greater precision than has heretofore been possible.

[0006] It is a further object of the invention to provide a golf tee setting device of the type described that permits a golfer to see a golf ball positioned atop a tee, as the tee is being set into the ground, so that the golfer can judge for himself whether the tee has been inserted to the most favorable depth into the ground.

Problems solved by technology

As golfers age, they frequently find themselves unable to perform this basic golfing task.

Repeated stooping and crouching hurts their backs and knees too much.

For the most part, these devices have been cumbersome affairs with springs and catches for holding the ball on the tee making such almost as difficult to master as gripping and swinging a golf club.

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