Patent ID: 7255648
Filing Date: 2007-08-14
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A practice putting cup comprising: a rectangular planform shape with a minimum width equal to two times a regulation golf hole diameter; a golf ball entry ramp of approximately ten degrees incline angle with a height approximately equal to three quarters of a golf ball diameter; a flat hole surface adjoining and at the height of the entry ramp into which a hole of regulation size diameter is centrally located; a regulation size hole cut into the flat hole surface to a depth greater than one half diameter of a golf ball; side walls which extend above the height of the entry ramp and the flat hole surface; a lateral trough to the rear of the hole with a rear lip or retainer of a height of approximately one fourth of a golf ball diameter and specifically of a height lower than that of the side walls of the cup; wherein the entry ramp will turn back or reject putts that are not struck firmly enough to be capable of rolling one to two feet past the hole and further the lateral trough will retain only those putts missed left and right of the hole which would otherwise roll no more than three feet past the back of the hole, and wherein struck too firmly which miss the hole will roll through the lateral trough and over the rear lip so that the cup as a whole will turn back weak putts, but at the same time expel missed putts that were struck too firmly.