Patent ID: 7607998

Claim:
A golf tee for supporting a golf ball in place at an elevated position above a ground plane, the golf tee comprising: a generally conical, essentially hollow body having a basal tip and a ball support spaced in an axial direction from the basal tip to establish a prescribed axial length between the ball support and the basal tip, the body including a conoidal wall having a spiral configuration including overlapping conoid layers of synthetic polymeric material extending axially from the basal tip to the ball support, each layer having a first edge at the ball support and a second edge at the basal tip, each layer being unsecured to an adjacent layer between corresponding first and second edges such that upon being struck by a blow transverse to the axial direction relative movement between adjacent layers will enable a resilient transverse deflection of the wall while essentially maintaining the prescribed axial length between the ball support and the basal tip.