Sectional golf tee

Abstract

A sectional golf tee is provided comprising a lower tee half which is made of a rigid material for penetrating the ground, and an upper tee half which is mechanically and / or magnetically mated to the lower tee half along a common longitudinal axis to elevate a golf ball with a loose cord keeping the halves within a retrieving distance. To an omnidirectional hitting impact at the ball the upper tee half is totally compliant by its physical separation from the lower tee half overcoming the mechanical and / or magnetic attraction with zero resistance to the club movement.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] A. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a golf tee. More particularly, the present invention relates to a component golf tee totally collapsible to have zero interference with a club swing. [0003] B. Description of the Prior Art [0004] A golf tee works to give a considerable advantage for drive shots by elevating a golf ball to a convenient height. The most common type of golf tee is a simple wooden peg with a flared top, which has been in use since the 1920s. Articulated golf tees were also introduced in search of a solution to damages to the tees from the clubs striking the same along with balls. [0005] U.S. Pat. No. 1,623,119 to Kearney discloses in its FIG. 6 embodiment a link 24 for connecting golf tee halves 10 and 11 flexibly secured at two eyes 25 and 26. The above patent suggested no dedicated means to positively hold the tee halves together but the upper part 11 rested flat on the lower part 10, and the flexibili...

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Benefits of technology

[0010] An object of the present invention is to provide a sectional golf tee having two distinctive states, a sustainable tee shape under normal handlings and split tee halves in compliance with a club movement with the distinctive states being repeatable perfectly and easily.

[0011] Another object of the present invention is to provide a conventional tee shape with the advantageous splitting feature for a low cost.

[0012] A sectional golf tee according to the present invention comprises a longitudinally extending tee base having a pointed tip at a bottom end and a latitudinally extending upper surface; a longitudinal tee top having a latitudinally extending lower surface opposing the upper surface of the tee base and a concave top surface for bearing a bottom area of a golf ball above a teeing ground; and a flexible linear member slidably threaded though the tee top and tee base for keeping them within a certain distance.

[0015] At a teeing position on the ground under the ball, the sectional golf tee is totally compliant to an omnidirectional hitting impact at the ball by its physical separation from the lower tee half overcoming the mechanical and / or magnetic attraction with zero resistance to the club movement.

Problems solved by technology

Thus, it lacks the convenience of handling a single piece of tee in its ground-penetration before the tee parts must be carefully aligned in preparation of propping up a ball to hit.

In view of this fact, the above tee fails to provide a solution to align component tees in exactly the same repeatable way when the tee is reused.

And manually realigning tee pieces in the field would be annoying.

Specifically, these pivotable connections might reduce the impact resistance when they are hit in a certain way yet do not eliminate the resistance to the golf swing and broken tees.

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