Golf Putting Training Apparatus with 6:4 Ratio Guide
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current golf putting training aids lack effective solutions for consistent alignment, proper distance control, and muscle memory development, particularly in preventing the putter from impacting the ground and maintaining a 90-degree angle with the golf ball.
Innovation Solution
A golf putting training apparatus with horizontal and vertical components, utilizing a 6:4 ratio for backswing and follow-through, and a pre-determined thickness to elevate the putter, ensuring proper alignment and preventing ground impact, while visual aids and additional components help maintain a 90-degree angle and create muscle memory for accurate strokes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional putting training aids are used, then basic alignment guidance is provided, but they fail to prevent ground impact and maintain proper putter angle
Solution Approach 1:
The training aid introduces an intermediary component (the raised platform or guide structure) between the putter and the ground. This intermediary physically prevents the putter from contacting the ground during the putting motion, thereby solving the ground impact problem while maintaining alignment guidance functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention adds a vertical dimension to the traditional 2D alignment aid by raising the platform or guide structure off the ground. This dimensional change creates physical space that prevents ground impact while the horizontal components continue to provide alignment guidance.
2Measurement precision
If visual alignment components are added to track putting stroke motion, then alignment tracking capability is improved, but the device becomes less easily attachable and removable
Solution Approach 1:
The training aid is divided into separate functional segments: the base platform, the visual alignment components, and the attachment mechanism. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, enabling precise alignment tracking while maintaining simple attachment and removal capabilities.
3Ease of operation
If the putter is allowed to swing freely, then natural putting motion is maintained, but the putter impacts the ground and creates inconsistent strokes
Solution Approach 1:
The training aid structure serves itself by using its own raised platform and guide components to automatically prevent ground impact and guide the putting motion. The structure's geometry itself provides the constraint and guidance, eliminating the need for additional active control mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
A golf putting training apparatus. Plural horizontal and vertical components with plural visual aid components are included that are used to properly align and properly swing a golf club putter. A 6:4 ratio is used with the plural horizontal and vertical components to provide a ratio for backswing and following through distancing and to help create muscle memory for a golfer. A pre-determined thickness is included allowing the golf club putter to be swing over the apparatus preventing the golf club putter from impacting a ground surface. The plural horizontal and vertical components help keep a face of the golf club putter in a proper alignment and at a ninety-degree angle to the golf ball when it is struck with the golf club putter.