Patent ID: 7771287
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A method which provides a golf player with both a means to support a golf club and a means to determined actual direct alignment of the face of the golf club with the intended line of play, the golf club having a round, oval, square, triangular, hexagonal, or octagonal shaft, a gripping end, a club head end, said method comprising: (1) installing a golf club support and alignment implement onto said shaft of said golf club near said club head end, said club support and alignment implement comprising: (a) only a one piece unibody integrally formed having two movable arms, said club support and alignment implement free from screws, bolts, pivot pins, clips, and separate springs, said club support and alignment implement free from separately formed legs, separately formed rods or separate formed pivot links; (b) each arm of said two movable arms acts as a leaf spring and is able to cross over the other arm creating a spring force able to retain said golf club shaft in said club support and alignment implement; (c) a locking chamber located at an end of one of said arms able to either clamp of trap said shaft inside said chamber; (d) a door located at an end of one of said arms which does not have said locking chamber able to close on said chamber by spring force, wherein said club support and alignment implement when installed is either able to clamp to said club or spin around said club; and (e) a pair of saucer shaped round feet that are part of a “U” shaped portion of said unibody.