Golf glove

An improved golf glove in which only the ring finger and the little finger and a portion of the palm is covered leaving the index finger and the middle finger and a portion of the palm uncovered thus providing a compromise between the gloved "feel" and the barehanded "feel," and which allows the golfer to easily put on or take off said gloves for putting or the like and which also is economical to manufacture.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
The present invention relates to sport gloves or the like and more 
specifically to golf gloves. 
An experienced or novice golfer must maintain complete control over the 
golf club before, during and after the swing and the ideal method is to 
keep the "feel" of the club by golfing barehanded, however, this becomes 
impractical due to perspiration, playing in humid climates, worn club 
grips, etc, therefore the usual means available to overcome these problems 
is the use of thin, tight fitting gloves. 
In the past, gloves have been developed with deal with these problems such 
as Kamada of Japan in Pat. No. #4,514,861, Keim of Arizona in Pat. No. 
#4,590,625, and Bencrisutto in Pat. No. #4,752,075. 
These and other patented gloves basically cover the entire hands of the 
golfer and do not allow any appreciable contact of the hand with the club. 
"Feel", in golf language is virtually impossible to define. It is common 
knowledge that for a right-handed golfer, the right hand that grips the 
golf shaft is the power hand and the left hand, which is situated above 
the right hand on the golf club shaft, is the accuracy hand. There seems 
to be no end to what definitions determine the feel of the golf club shaft 
in the golfer's hands. For example, in the Mar. 1978 issue of Golf 
Magazine, the editors interviewed a dozen professional golfers as to what 
"feel" was to them. The report, which was reported on Page 118, gave many 
explanations as to what "feel" was. For example, the relationship between 
the hands and the brain, wherein the brain takes into account many 
factors, from the environment to a particular golfer's mental and physical 
state at the particular time the golf club is grasped. 
Four of the golfers stated what we the inventors believe to be correct, 
namely that "feel" is defined as the golfer's sense of the golf club shaft 
in his or her hands and how the brain perceives the golf club in the 
golfer's hands. The sensory feed-back of pressure information from the 
hands to the brain allows the brain to make the decisions which then 
inform the golfer's muscles how to move or adjust the hands upon the golf 
club, until the brain determines that a correct "feel" is obtained. 
Pressure feed-back works on the deeper, unconscious level of awareness, as 
opposed to such sensory feed-back as pain and temperature. 
In achieving this correct "feel", and in particular, the "feel" of the left 
hand on the club (for a right-handed golfer), the brain is relying on the 
specialized nerve sensors buried in the four fingers and the palm of the 
left hand. These pressure-sensitive nerve receptors are called "Pacinian 
bodies". The Pacinian bodies are connected to the brain by the ulnar and 
median nerves, which travel up the arm to the brain. 
As the left hand grasps the golf club shaft, unequal pressure is felt by 
the Pacinian bodies in each of the four fingers and the palm of the hand 
because of the natural concave shape of the palm of the hand and the 
location of the fingers which connect to the palm. The palm of the hand, 
in its natural position, is slightly concave, generally referred to as 
having a concavity. The concavity deepens as the hand flexes as in 
grasping the golf club handle. Additionally, the palm of the hand is 
slightly elevated at the point the fingers connect. Accordingly, then, it 
is obvious that the fingers at opposite ends of the concavity will feel 
the greatest pressure on the straight club shaft lying across the palm, 
namely the index and the little finger, while the Pacinian bodies located 
on the two middle fingers, as well as the palm area, receive less 
stimulation. In fact, if the left hand were so situated on the golf club 
as to make substantially equal pressure feelings in each area of the 
fingers and in the palm, the hand would be deformed from its normal 
configuration. Clearly, if the accuracy hand is deformed, even though done 
unconsciously, in trying to grasp the club when making a swing, control of 
the swing is going to be greatly hampered, and could quite logically be 
accepted as the cause of golf being such a difficult game. 
It is the belief of the inventor's that the present trend of golfers today 
to wear very tight gloves, is an attempt, unconscious or otherwise, to 
enhance "feel" by the very nature of being able to feel the glove on the 
hand. 
Also Tom Armour in his book entitled "How to Play Your Best Golf All the 
Time," state's; "When the club is at that point where the fingers and the 
palm meets, the fingers can curl around the grip so the sensitive finger 
tips can communicate the feeling of a good swing to the rest of the 
player's nervous system" and he also emphasizes to "keep the last two 
fingers especially snug. 
Obviously then, it is easy to see that "feel" of the golf club in the 
golfer's hand is very hard to define and just as hard to obtain. 
It is the object of correcting this problem of obtaining a proper "feel", 
to which the subject invention is directed. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
It is an object of the present invention to provide a compromise between 
the "barehanded" feel and the "glove" feel by covering only the ring 
finger and the little finger with a glove and leaving the index and middle 
finger and a substantial part of the palm uncovered for better stimulation 
and the "barehanded" feel. 
It is a further object to provide a glove which is easily removable for 
putting purposes as the glove does not have to be "peeled" off of the 
hands or over the "thumb butt" to be removed. 
It is another purpose to make a glove which is more universal in size as 
the body of the hand is not covered. 
It is still another purpose to provide a glove which allows the golfer to 
improve his mechanical swing by being able to "focus" open the grip with 
better impute from the sensors in the hands. 
Still another object is to provide a glove which is economical to 
manufacture as only half the material is necessary and the "fit" is not as 
critical. 
It is a further object to provide a glove with a closure made of the 
commercially available material trademarked "Velcro" which allows for 
easier on and off function and variable tightness. 
Another object is to provide a glove that eliminates the cumbersome aspects 
of achieving control but still prevents slipping of the club. 
Yet another object is to provide a glove that has small openings in the 
fingers of the glove that are used to expose the fingers to the "Pacinian 
bodies" buried in the fingers.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
With reference now to FIG. 1 and 11, a preferred embodiment of a right 
handed golf glove is shown with it being understood that the left handed 
glove is a mirror image of said right handed glove, and only the right 
hand will be shown and explained in detail. 
10 is the backside of a golfer's right hand while 12 is the palm or front 
side of said hand and 14 is the two fingered glove showing the palm or 
front side of the glove which comes in contact with the shaft of a golf 
club while 16 is the backside of said two fingered glove. 18 is closing 
means such as the material known by its trademark as VELCRO while 22 is a 
flap portion which has affixed to it the mating portion of the VELCRO and 
24 is a left hand wearing the glove, while 20 are cut outs or apertures in 
finger tips of the two gloved fingers to expose the sensors in the fingers 
to the surface of the grip on the golf club shaft. 
It will now be readily seen that we have provided a glove which covers only 
the ring finger and the little finger leaving the index and middle finger 
and a substantial part of the palm uncovered for better stimulation and 
the bare handed "feel." 
It will also be seen that we have provided a simple glove that is easily 
removable as required. 
It is also to be noted that our new two fingered glove can be made more 
universal in size as the entire body of the hand is not covered. 
Also with the two fingered glove the golfer can "focus" on the grip with 
better impute from the sensors in the fingers and hands and can therefore 
improve his mechanical swing. 
It is also of importance that we have provided a glove that uses much less 
material and is therefore more economical to manufacture. 
We have also provided openings in the fingers which expose the fingers to 
the "Pacinian Bodies" buried in the fingers. 
It will also be readily seen that we have provided a glove that eliminates 
the cumbersome aspects of achieving control but still prevents slipping of 
the club. 
It will also be recognized that we have provided a glove with a simple 
closure by the use of the commercially available material trademarked 
VELCRO which allows for easier on and off function and variable tightness. 
Although the invention has been herein shown and described in what is 
conceived to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is 
recognized that departures may be made therefrom within the scope of the 
invention, which is not to be limited to the details disclosed herein but 
it is to be accorded to the full scope of the claims so as to embrace any 
and all equivalent devices and apparatus.