Patent ID: 7506781

Claim:
A golf ball positioning dispenser for putting practice, comprising: a hollow tube for holding golf balls; the hollow tube extending through a body block proximate to the bottom end of the tube; a ball stop mechanism attached to the body block for dispensing the balls one at a time; the ball stop mechanism having a ball release pin and a ball retention pin, the pins being attached to a biased lever pivotally attached to the body block for movement control of the ball release pin and the ball retention pin into corresponding pin receiving holes of the tube in alternating cycles to provide ball dispensing action; a travel wheel having a freely rotatable attachment to the body block for circumferential travel around a practice hole; the biased lever being disposed on the body block so that it is aligned above a radial surface of the travel wheel; at least one cam attached to the same radial surface of the travel wheel, the at least one cam being capable of engaging the biased lever; a swingable radial arm extending from a hole position and attached to the body block to keep travel of the travel wheel a predetermined radial distance from the hole; and wherein when a user causes the dispenser to travel via the travel wheel in a circumferential arc of travel determined by the radial arm, the at least one cam engages and alternatively disengages the biased lever to cause the ball dispensing action of the mechanism at predetermined arc intervals along the circumference of wheel travel to place the balls in position one-by-one along the circumference for practice putting.