Patent ID: 7984559

Claim:
A golf club fitting apparatus, comprising: a shaft having a grip end and a bottom end; an elongated arm having a first end affixed to the bottom end of the shaft, and having a second end that is attached to a first linear slide member; a second linear slide member that is slidably attached to the first linear slide member and rotatably attached to a generally planar base; a linear encoder coupled to the first linear slide member; an angular encoder coupled to the second linear slide member; an image display unit affixed generally horizontally to the base; a data processor coupled to the linear encoder, the angular encoder, and the image display; logic coupled to the data processor and which, when executed by the data processor, causes: receiving a linear measurement from the linear encoder; receiving an angular measurement from the angular encoder; computing a length of a golf club and a lie angle of a golf club head based on the linear measurement and angular measurement; and displaying, on the image display, an image of the golf club head based on the linear measurement and angular measurement.