Golf swing training device

Details Golf swing training device Golf swing training device

1995-01-04

1996-04-30

Marlo, George J.

Games using tangible projectile

Golf

Hand on grip positioning aid or grip indicator

473209, 473213, 473215, A63B 6936

Patent

active

055117899

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BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to golf swing training devices and, more particularly, to a golf swing training device, with which a golf swing technique is to be acquired by people aiming at single figure level handicap or persons who want to be professional golfers.


BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

There is a slight difference in golf swing techniques between instructors. It is said that there are 100 or more (or 500 or more) swing check points. However, when these check points are arranged and classified, they are reduced to several basic check points. Examples of such basic check points are to correctly grip the club and take a correct stance, not to make a head-up, not to move the head, not to open the armpits, not to impact the ball by using the hands or arms from the top, i.e., make a swing by twisting the body about the backbone by using muscles of the body, that is, taking a right hand golfer as an example, shift the weight from the right foot to the left foot, etc.
While there are a large number of golf swing check points as noted above, it is impossible to make a swing while checking all these points in a short swing time of a couple of seconds. However, by mastering check points which are thought to be most important, ideal movements are acquired to obtain naturally good movements which satisfy most of the other check points as well.
These check points have to be mastered as a basic technique. However, it is impossible to visually confirm the swing form. Therefore, the swing form is liable to be deviated to result in score-down. Further, even when the training person has become able to swing the golf club after mastering the above check points, he or she may not be able to provide a sufficient distance in a long hole or may produce a misshot so that he or she can not improve the score. Particularly, woman golfers and like persons who are not so tall or persons who do not have much muscles can not produce long distance. Inevitably, they try to increase the distance and therefore forget making the proper golf swing. For instance, they often swing the golf club with the arms or hands from the top, thus resulting in misshots or swing form deviation and making the golf play more difficult.
In order that even a person who is not so tall and does not have much physical power be able to hit the ball for a long distance by increasing the head speed, make a high level golf swing to cause the ball to fly along a steady orbit and maintain handicap between zero and single figure, the inventor endeavored to improve the golfer's own swing form, studied by comparing the swing forms of famous home and foreign professional golfers and by comparing methods of improving golf play recommended by professional golfers.
As a result, the inventor found that the methods of improving golf play recommended by the professional golfers involve what are thought to be secret as know-how. But as a result of detailed analysis of video tapes and continuous pictures showing swing forms of professional golfers, it has been found that there is a substantially common swing. The content of the swing is that at the turn-over from the top the upper and lower bodies are moving in opposite directions concurrently although for a very short period of time. This golf swing was exercised repeatedly, and extremely good results could be obtained with stability of the swing form.
The golf swing that has been found will now be described in greater detail. A right hand golfer will be taken as an example. First, when the golfer gets into the back swing from the address, the body is twisted clockwise about the backbone. When the golfer's left shoulder is brought into contact with the left side of the chin, that is, at a 80 to 90% back swing position or slightly before the top, the golfer intuitively begins to cause simultaneous sliding of the left knee and the left waist by several centimeters in the flying direction for down-swinging. As a result, a time difference is produced, and the lower body turns to be rotated counterclockwise w

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