Putting Alignment Trainer With Spirit Level Eye Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing golf putting training devices fail to effectively align the player's eyes directly over the ball, leading to inconsistent putting strokes and suboptimal skill development.
Innovation Solution
A device comprising two stanchions with perpendicular rods and attached banners, a tubular spirit level, and a continuous loop of flexible material that aligns the player's eyes with the ball, ensuring a perpendicular stance and parallel alignment of the ball with the putting surface, optionally using bases for stability and leveling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional putting training devices use simple stakes with strings, then the device complexity is low, but the alignment precision of player's eyes over the ball is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into separate modular components: stanchions with bases, banners with spirit levels, and flexible material loops. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently for its specific function while maintaining overall alignment precision without excessive complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The spirit level attached to the banner serves as an intermediary tool that provides visual feedback to the player, enabling precise eye alignment over the ball without requiring complex mechanical guidance systems. The flexible material loop acts as another intermediary to define the putting line.
2Ease of operation
If stakes are driven into the putting surface to hold strings taut, then the device is easy to set up, but it may damage the green and lacks stability
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible material loop is designed as a reusable but replaceable component that can be easily removed and repositioned without causing damage. The stanchions with bases provide temporary stabilization without permanent alteration to the green.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible material loop replaces rigid strings or wires, allowing it to conform to the putting surface without penetrating or damaging the green. Its flexibility enables easy adjustment and removal while maintaining structural integrity for repeated use.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the device uses fixed rigid structures, then the alignment is stable, but it cannot adapt to different putting positions and angles
Solution Approach 1:
The stanchions can be positioned at various locations on the putting green, and the flexible material loop can be adjusted to create different alignment lines. This dynamic positioning capability allows adaptation to different putting positions and angles while the spirit level maintains stable vertical reference.
Solution Approach 2:
The device serves multiple functions: the stanchions provide vertical reference, the banners with spirit levels indicate proper eye position, and the flexible material loop defines the putting line. This multi-functionality allows a single device to adapt to various putting scenarios without requiring multiple specialized tools.
4Manufacturing precision
If the device provides detailed alignment guidance, then the putting accuracy improves, but the device becomes more complex and harder to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The spirit level on the banner automatically indicates when the player's eyes are correctly positioned over the ball, eliminating the need for complex adjustment mechanisms or skilled operation. The device self-regulates to provide accurate alignment feedback.
Solution Approach 2:
The spirit level uses visual indicators (bubble position) to communicate alignment status, providing intuitive feedback to the player. This simple visual system conveys complex alignment information in an easily interpretable format.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances the accuracy and consistency of putting strokes by aligning the player's eyes directly over the ball, improving the alignment and directionality of putts, thereby enhancing putting skills.
Implementation Method 1
A tubular spirit level is attached to or incorporated into the banner such that the tubular level extending substantially perpendicularly to the long axis of the rod
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AI summary
A device for training a putting stroke in golf. The device includes a first stanchion and a second stanchion, each stanchion comprising a rod having two ends, a banner and a tubular spirit level attached at one end of each rod, and a continuous loop of flexible material reversibly attached to the banner of each of the first and second stanchions. When the first and second stanchions are positioned in a separated configuration from each other, the continuous loop of material defines an upper run of the flexible material and a lower run of the flexible material substantially parallel to one another. The rods can be inserted directly into a penetrable surface or mounted in corresponding bases.