Patent ID: 9630076
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: A63B,F41B

Claim:
1. A projectile throwing apparatus configured for use with a game ball, said apparatus comprising: a shaft having a first end and a second end; a rigid head provided at the second end of the shaft; the head defining a center wall and a plurality of side walls, said side walls substantially parallel to each other, each of said side walls further comprising at least one lattice member, said side walls having situated therebetween said center wall, said side walls and said center wall defining a channel configured to facilitate throwing a golf ball, wherein the channel is between approximately 1.65 inches and approximately 2.3 inches in width and between approximately 2 inches and approximately 5 inches in length, wherein said shaft is between approximately 30 and approximately 72 inches long, wherein said shaft defines a longitudinal shaft axis and the channel defines a channel axis along its length, wherein the shaft axis and channel axis intersect at an obtuse angle, and wherein at least one of the side wall lattice members, or a combination of said sidewall lattice members, or a combination of at least one of said sidewall lattice members and any other portion of the rigid head, defines an exterior surface configured for putting said golf ball.