Tetherable Golf Tee System for Anchor Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golf tees often become dislodged during a stroke, leading to potential safety hazards and loss, especially in shared practice facilities, as they can relocate to undesirable positions or interfere with other players.
Innovation Solution
A tetherable golf tee system where each tee includes a hollow portion with apertures for securing a tethering apparatus, allowing multiple tees to be connected, ensuring they remain anchored even if one is dislodged during a stroke.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a traditional golf tee is used without tethering, then the tee structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the tee becomes dislodged during strokes and causes safety hazards
Solution Approach 1:
The tee system is divided into multiple independent tees, each with its own hollow body and aperture. The tees are segmented but connected through tethering, allowing individual tees to be simple while the system provides stability through multiple anchored points.
Solution Approach 2:
The tethering apparatus is nested within the hollow body of each tee, with the tether passing through the aperture and anchoring inside the hollow cavity. This nested configuration keeps the external tee structure simple while providing internal tethering mechanisms for enhanced stability.
2Reliability
If multiple tees are tethered together to prevent loss and safety hazards, then tee reliability improves, but the device complexity increases due to additional apertures and tethering mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
Each tee is designed with universal features (hollow body and aperture) that enable it to function both as a standalone tee and as part of a tethered system. The same basic tee structure serves multiple purposes, reducing the need for entirely different components for tethering.
Solution Approach 2:
The tether acts as an intermediary element that connects multiple tees together. Rather than modifying the tees extensively, the tether serves as the mediating component that provides the connecting function, keeping the tee structures themselves relatively simple.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If a tee is dislodged during a stroke, then the tee structure remains simple, but the tee relocates to undesirable positions and interferes with other players
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple tees are merged into a single tethered system, so that when one tee is struck, the tether connects it to other anchored tees, preventing complete dislocation. The combined system distributes the impact and maintains overall position stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The tees are pre-tethered together before use, creating a connected system in advance. This preliminary tethering ensures that when a stroke occurs, the tees are already linked and cannot relocate independently to hazardous positions.
Data Source
AI summary
A tetherable golf tee and teeing system are disclosed herein. One golf tee includes a body including a first end for inserting into an external surface and a second end opposite the first end and a crown located on the second end, the crown configured for resting a golf ball thereon. The body further includes a hollow portion and a first aperture located between the first end and the second end to access the hollow portion and for tethering the golf tee to another object. The crown includes a second aperture to further access the hollow portion. A golf tee system includes at least two of the above golf tees tethered together via a tethering apparatus.