Patent ID: 6602146
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A putting trainer comprising:a housing having a bottom; a stabilizing support spaced from the housing; a rod mounted to the housing and to the stabilizing support; a controller evaluating the accuracy of putt and including: at least three sensors detecting centered, partially centered and off-centered putts, respectively, each of the sensors having a respective sever pivotally mounted of the rod to pivot to a detecting position upon getting hit by a ball, so that the three levers are spaced apart at a distance less than a diameter of the ball and arranged in a row, and generating a respective detection signal, an accuracy decoder for decoding said detection signals and generating discrimination signals representing centered, partially centered and off-centered putts, and a weighting counter weighting the discrimination signals with predetermined weighting factors, each representing the centered, off-centered and partially centered putts to obtain a score, and a totalizing counter determining a duration of each of the discrimination signals representing a respective score assigned to each discrimination signal while it is being weighed, and a display indicating the score representing the centered, partially centered and off-centered putts.