Patent ID: 6640970
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: A45C,A63B

Abstract:
A compact golf club carrier for use in conjunction with a conventional standard size golf bag having a partitioned top club entrance opening, and with the bag strapped in position on the platform of a motorized golf cart, comprising the combination:an elongate tubular hollow body portion having a top open end and a closed bottom end; said body portion in cross-section being generally of a three rounded corner triangular shape dimensioned to receive the grips and shafts of not less than three clubs selected from a larger set of clubs normally contained in said conventional golf bag; a hook-shaped handle portion having an inner leg and an outer leg integrally joined by an arched web portion; said inner leg rigidly mounted to said body portion adjacent the top open end thereof; said outer leg depending downwardly from its point of integral joinder with said arched web portion in spaced parallel relationship to said inner leg and body portion; and said outer leg being longer than said inner leg and depending downwardly to a terminal point located substantially below the point where said handle is rigidly mounted to said body portion adjacent said top open end; wherein said spaced parallel outer leg is shaped and proportioned to define a manual finger gripping surface to permit a user to engage the fingers of one hand and carry said carrier with the selected few clubs loaded in said body portion with the club grips and shafts loosely nested in the tubular body and the club heads projecting outwardly from the top end thereof; wherein said tubular body with its maximum number of clubs loaded therein has a predetermined center of balance zone located at a point along the said elongate body portion when the loaded carrier is held at or near horizontal position; and wherein said terminal point of said downwardly depending outer leg is located within said predetermined center of balance zone to enable a user to carry said carrier by said handle in a near balanced horizontal position.