Patent ID: 7597632
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. Golf practice and training apparatus for developing putting skills with a putter comprising, in combination: a base frame engagable with and forming a border about a putting surface in an operative stroke practice position; a guide bar coupled to the base frame for manually adjustable movement in elevation relative to the base frame; the base frame including a plurality of parallel base rails and a plurality of cross bars, the base rails being spaced apart and held substantially in parallel alignment with a stroke axis by the cross bars, the plurality of base rails being engaged with a putting surface in the operative stroke practice position, the plurality of base rails being spaced to accommodate a head of the putter in the operative stroke practice position, and at least one of the plurality of cross bars being vertically offset by a pair of riser stubs integral therewith, the vertically offset being relative to the plurality of base rails engaged with the putting surface, thereby forming a bridge opening overlying the putting surface and allowing rolling passage of a golf ball along the putting surface and through the bridge opening; and one of the plurality of base rails engaged with the putting surface is intersected by a spacing gap that is large enough to permit lateral rolling movement of a golf ball onto a portion of a putting surface that is bordered by the base frame when it is placed in the operative stroke practice position.