Patent ID: 8267812
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: A63B,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method for training a golf or chipping stroke by repetition of such stroke, which method comprises the steps of: installing a tracking device on a shaft of a golf club that has a grip, which device includes gyroscopes and accelerometers and a recording device for creating an electronic image of the movement of the golf club from an address position through the backstroke, the forward stroke and the follow-through; having a trainee swing the golf club multiple times to execute one desired stroke with this particular golf club, using essentially the same effort each time, so as to track and record the trainee's swing path upon said electronic tracking mechanism; transferring said tracking data to a CPU of a putting/chipping training apparatus to provide the CPU with a record of the trainee's average swing path resulting from such multiple executions of the same stroke, which CPU is connected to drive mechanisms of a multiple axes motion-generating device which forms a part of the training apparatus; attaching the trainee's golf club to the motion-generating device by clamping and aligning it so that the grip of the golf club assumes an angular orientation to the horizontal and a vertical distance from the ground which are the same as it did during the multiple executions of such stroke; and with the trainee's hands gently grasping the grip of the golf club, causing the motion-generating device to replicate the swinging movement of the golf club along the swing path of the trainee in executing such stroke.