Games using tangible projectile – Golf – Club or club support
Patent
1996-08-22
1997-11-25
Grieb, William H.
Games using tangible projectile
Golf
Club or club support
294 192, 473286, A63B 5700
Patent
active
056905580
ABSTRACT:
A golf ball retriever is attached to the handle of a golf putter and is used to retrieve a golf ball from a playing surface and to concurrently deposit a golf ball marker in place of the golf ball. The apparatus includes a fork rotatably mounted to a support body that is secured to the extremity of the handle of a golf club shaft. The fork has a pair of arms which lie substantially in a common plane and are arcuately curved toward each other. One of the arms is longer than the other. A golf ball marker with a turf-engaging spike is placed on the underside of the body supporting the fork and is held thereto by a magnet within the support body. The fork is moved toward the golf ball while residing at a lifting angle inclined about fifteen degrees downwardly relative to the golf club shaft. The arms of the fork engage the undersurface of the golf ball and cradle it therebetween. Once the golf ball has been cradled within the arms of the fork, the shaft is pressed downwardly, thereby engaging the spike of the ball marker in the turf. The fork is then moved laterally away from the ball marker in a scooping motion, thereby overcoming the magnetic force of attraction holding the ball marker to the support. This leaves the golf ball marker in the former position of the golf ball, while the golf ball itself is scooped up.
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Goodman Larry K.
Grieb William H.
Thomas Charles H.
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