Putter Aiming Key Layout for Accurate Hole Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golfers often struggle to accurately aim their putts, leading to missed holes due to deviation from the desired path during the swing, as they focus on making contact with the ball rather than maintaining alignment with the hole.
Innovation Solution
An aiming key and putter design featuring a body with an aiming member and target, allowing golfers to align the aiming member with the hole and maintain focus on the target during the swing, enhancing alignment accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If golfers use a line etched in the putter to aim at the hole, then they can establish a desired line of sight, but the aiming accuracy is insufficient and the ball does not follow the desired path
Solution Approach 1:
The putter head is divided into functional zones: a first region with the face for striking the ball, and a second region with the aiming key featuring parallel sides and opening. This segmentation allows the aiming mechanism to be spatially separated from the striking mechanism, enabling independent optimization of each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The aiming key acts as an intermediary tool between the golfer's aim and the putter face. The parallel sides and opening provide a reference framework that mediates the alignment process, allowing the golfer to establish the desired line of sight more accurately before executing the putt.
2Ease of operation
If golfers concentrate on making contact with the ball during putting, then they can execute the swing, but they move the putter off the desired path and miss the hole
Solution Approach 1:
The aiming key enables preliminary alignment action before the swing execution. The golfer uses the parallel sides and opening to establish the desired line of sight and align the putter face with the target line before making contact with the ball, ensuring both proper alignment and successful execution.
Solution Approach 2:
The traditional mechanical alignment method (relying solely on the putter shaft and face) is replaced with an optical-mechanical system using the aiming key's opening and parallel sides as visual references. This substitution enhances the precision of alignment while maintaining the mechanical swing execution.
3Ease of operation
If golfers face the ball during putting, then they can focus on contact, but they cannot maintain alignment with the hole throughout the swing
Solution Approach 1:
The aiming key serves as an intermediary that preserves visual alignment information. By providing the opening and parallel sides as reference markers, it allows the golfer to maintain awareness of the desired line while facing the ball, preventing loss of alignment information during the putting motion.
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AI summary
A method for enhancing the accuracy of aiming while putting a golf ball with a putter is provided. A head of the putter includes a body having top and bottom surfaces separated by a distance, an interior opening extending part of the distance from the top surface to the bottom surface, a first end and a second end. The second end includes a target and the first end includes an aiming member extending into the opening and towards a center of the target. The method includes the steps of focusing on a pointed end of the aiming member and aligning the pointed end with a hole in the ground, executing a backswing while concentrating on moving the pointed end of the aiming member towards the center of the target, executing a forward swing towards the golf ball, and striking the golf ball to translate the golf ball along the alinement towards the hole.