Patent ID: 7641566

Claim:
A device to aid a user in stretching his or her back and shoulder muscles comprising a telescoping shaft, where the shaft can expand to a length such that a golfer can place the device behind his or her head and grasp each end with outstretched arms, where the shaft can collapse to a size smaller than its expanded size, and where the shaft is hollow and has an external surface and an internal surface, padding, where the padding covers at least a portion of the external surface of the middle portion of the shaft and the entire circumference of the external surface near each end of the shaft, but not the entire shaft, and a first compartment, where the first compartment is located inside of the shaft at one end of the shaft, where the first compartment is bounded by at least the internal surface of the shaft and one inner wall, and where at least one golf ball can fit inside of the first compartment, and an attachment pullout, where the attachment pullout can be slid from a closed position to a withdrawn position, where the attachment pullout, when in the closed position, bounds the first compartment such that items located within the compartment cannot be removed, where the attachment pullout, when in the withdrawn position, does not cause the first compartment to be completely enclosed such that items located within the compartment can be removed, wherein the attachment pullout is coupled to the telescoping shaft through a cut-out portion of the telescoping shaft.