Patent ID: 6488592
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A golf teaching method using a golf teaching apparatus, said golf teaching apparatus comprising a golf club, a handle laser removably mounted to said golf club's handle, a shaft laser removably mounted to said golf club's shaft, and a tape marked with a centerline and at least one ball image, said handle laser being mounted so as to shine a handle laser beam along a centerline extension of said shaft in a direction opposite said golf club's head, and said shaft laser being aimed to shine a shaft laser beam parallel said shaft centerline, said shaft laser beam passing immediately adjacent a portion of said head intended to strike a golf ball, said golf teaching method comprising the steps of:A. Placing said tape on a practice surface, said ball image and said centerline facing up; B. Standing facing said tape at said ball image and addressing an imaginary golf ball resting on said golf ball image with said golf club as if said imaginary golf ball were going to be hit along said centerline; C. Ensuring that said shaft laser beam shines on said centerline; D. Swinging said golf club so as to hit said imaginary golf ball; E. Ensuring that said shaft laser beam shines on said centerline during a portion of a backswing during which a surface tracing of said shaft laser beam travels between a pair of mutually parallel surface lines which are perpendicular to said centerline and which each contain one endpoint of said centerline; F. Ensuring that said handle laser beam shines on said centerline during a portion of said backswing during which a surface tracing of said handle laser beam travels between said pair of surface lines; G. Ensuring that said handle laser beam shines on said centerline during a portion of a forward swing during which a surface tracing of said handle laser beam travels between said pair of surface lines; and H. Ensuring that said shaft laser beam shines on said centerline during a portion of said forward swing during which a surface tracing of said shaft laser beam travels between said pair of surface lines.