Patent ID: 8142301

Claim:
A measuring system for measuring hitting parameters of a golf club, the measuring system comprising: a measurement device equipped with a first reflective light barrier having a first receiver, the first reflective light barrier being horizontally directed and able to send a first beam, a data acquisition device integrated into the measurement device, at least three reflectors having respective retroreflective surfaces, corresponding functionally to the first reflective light barrier, having a defined geometry, and comprising at least three strip-shaped reflectors, an information output- and storage unit, the data acquisition device being able to forward acquired measured data to the information output- and storage unit, and a clamp-connection device connected to the at least three reflectors, the clamp-connection device being attachable to a shaft of a golf club with a tight, but detachable clamp-connection, wherein the measuring system is arranged such that: the first beam produced by the measuring device projects at a right angle to a swing path of a club head of the golf club near at least one of a tee and a golf ball when a golfer opposite to the measurement device swings the golf club, and the three retroreflective surfaces upon crossing the first beam elicit temporally staggered pulse-shaped measuring data, the first receiver of the first reflective light barrier receiving the temporally staggered pulse-shaped measuring data and forwarding the temporally staggered pulse-shaped measuring data to the data acquisition device as the acquired measured data.