Contoured Putting Training System With Adjustable Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golfers lack confidence when putting on contoured surfaces due to inadequate practice methods that fail to replicate course conditions, leading to guessing and compromised skills in alignment and distance control.
Innovation Solution
A putting training system with strategically positioned alignment components and a frame that allows a golf ball to track along a contoured surface towards a golf hole, enabling consistent practice on non-flat surfaces by adjusting the spacing between alignment components to mimic real-course conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If golfers practice straight putts on flat surfaces, then alignment and distance control skills are improved, but confidence when putting on contoured surfaces deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a portable replica of contoured green conditions using a contoured base plate that mimics the slope and contour characteristics of actual golf greens. This allows golfers to practice and internalize ball path visualization on surfaces that replicate course conditions, transferring skills from practice to actual play without requiring travel to the course.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables golfers to perform preliminary practice sessions on contoured surfaces before actual play. By practicing on a contoured base plate with aligned targets positioned to simulate real green contours, golfers pre-condition their stroke and visualization skills specifically for contoured conditions, eliminating the need to guess during actual play.
2Productivity
If golfers use conventional practice methods, then simple stroke repetition is achieved, but purposeful repetition on contoured surfaces is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The contoured base plate serves as a portable model of actual green conditions, allowing golfers to replicate specific course contours in their practice environment. This copying approach enables purposeful repetition that directly translates to course performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines multiple practice functions in one device: contoured surface simulation, alignment target positioning, and stroke repetition capability. This multi-functional design allows a single practice session to address multiple aspects of putting performance that would otherwise require separate practice activities.
3Device complexity
If alignment components are fixed in position, then structural simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to different contoured conditions is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The frame incorporates adjustable mechanisms that allow the alignment components (first and second aligned components) to be repositioned along the frame structure. This dynamic adjustment capability enables the system to adapt to various contoured green conditions and putt distances while maintaining a relatively simple overall frame design.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame is divided into segments or sections with movable alignment components that can be independently positioned. This segmentation allows flexible configuration of the alignment components to match different contoured conditions without requiring complete redesign of the entire frame structure.
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AI summary
A putting training system having: a) an alignment component; b) at least one frame configured to maintain the alignment component in a spaced relationship to a golf hole on a contoured putting surface with the at least one frame in an operative state upon the contoured putting surface; and c) at least one support configured to maintain the at least one frame in the operative state. The alignment component configured to be strategically spaced and located relative to a golf hole whereby a golf ball putted from a starting location spaced from the golf hole towards the alignment component will tend to track along the contoured putting surface towards the putting hole.