Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Simulated game
Patent
1993-12-10
1995-01-03
Marlo, George J.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Simulated game
A63B 6936
Patent
active
053779886
ABSTRACT:
A golf practice device simulates the appearance and general flight characteristics of an actual regulation golf ball, but commonly only travels about 30-80 feet when impacted by a swung golf club. The device includes a substantially regulation ball connected by a shaft extending diametrically with respect to the ball to a substantially disc-shaped drag element, the disc perpendicular to the shaft and preferably of a one-piece molding of rubber or resilient plastic. The disc has a substantially flat bottom, and the disc and shaft act like a tee, allowing the ball to be "teed up" off any surface. The shaft may be ultrasonically welded to the exteriorly dimpled plastic shell of a regulation golf ball, the shaft extending through a diametrically extending opening in the ball; or the ball, shaft and disc may be unitarily molded of the same plastic material.
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