Patent ID: 7252595
Filing Date: 2007-08-07
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A semi automatic teeing device for positioning practice golf balls which includes: a hollow tee for a golf ball, made of flexible material and fabricated to substantially sealingly engage a golf ball seated thereon; a tee holder, substantially cylindrical and configured to allow said tee to be sealingly mounted therein; a cylinder sealingly surrounding said tee holder, adapted to permit said tee holder with said tee mounted therein to move vertically therewithin; and a cover with a vertical opening for said tee; wherein said tee holder has a raised position and a lowered position in said cylinder; wherein, when said tee holder is in said lowered position in said cylinder, a golf ball entering said opening of said cover will seat on said top of said tee; and wherein said tee, said tee holder, said cylinder, and said cover are adapted, in the presence of a source of positive air pressure within a predetermined range of magnitude, to provide a force which, when a golf ball is seated on said tee, is sufficient to raise said tee holder and said tee with the golf ball seated thereon to said raised position in said cylinder without blowing the golf ball off of said tee.