Triangular Wedge Golf Cup for Breaking Putt Training
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current putting training aids primarily focus on straight putts, failing to adequately address the need for devices that allow golfers to practice putts that break left to right, right to left, and straight, which are essential skills for improving golfing performance.
Innovation Solution
A triangular wedge-shaped golf training device with a hole through both largest surface area faces, allowing the golfer to practice putts that break left to right, right to left, and straight by adjusting its orientation to simulate various slope directions, ensuring the ball lands in a hole similar to a regulation golf hole.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional flat or simple cup design is used, then the device is simple and inexpensive, but it only allows practice of straight putts and cannot simulate breaking putts
Solution Approach 1:
The cup is designed with a removable insert that can be rotated to different orientations. This dynamic element allows the same basic structure to simulate different green conditions (straight, left-to-right breaking, right-to-left breaking putts) without requiring multiple separate devices, thus improving versatility while maintaining structural simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The triangular wedge-shaped insert serves multiple functions: it can be oriented to create straight putting surfaces, left-to-right breaking surfaces, and right-to-left breaking surfaces. A single device structure accomplishes what would traditionally require multiple specialized training aids, achieving multi-functionality without proportionally increasing complexity
2Reliability
If a device that simulates real green conditions with breaking putts is created, then training effectiveness improves, but the device becomes more complex and expensive
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of making the entire cup complex, only a localized insert element is designed with the breaking surface geometry. The insert contains the complexity needed to simulate green breaks, while the rest of the cup structure remains simple and familiar, thus achieving training effectiveness without overall structural complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The insert replicates the essential breaking characteristics of real putting greens in a simplified, scaled-down form. Rather than creating a full-scale replica of a green, the insert copies only the critical slope and breaking geometry needed for effective training, maintaining simplicity while improving reliability
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AI summary
A golf putting training device with a portable golf hole cut through a unique multidimensional triangular shaped device, in which the longest edge of the triangle is flat and can lay flush on an underlying surface and receive a golf ball smoothly. The device will have one corner of the triangle that is elevated creating one highest point sloping down to two low or flat points, or one flat edge. The device has two functional faces or bases that are the mirror images of each other. The device can be flipped over and rest on either of the two largest faces (or triangular surface areas) to allow a practicing golfer to practice striking putts that break right to left, or left to right. The device can be positioned relative to the practicing golfer in such a manner that many different slope degrees or angles can change the break of the putt, even a slope that provides for a perfectly straight putt.