Patent ID: 7878917

Claim:
An apparatus for inspecting and facilitating the alignment of a grip of a putter with a face of a head of said putter, comprising (a) a putter with a flat side grip; (b) a light emitting unit for emitting a fan-shaped light sheet using light shaping optics, said unit being mounted on said grip so that said light sheet projects a visible line on a plane, when said head of said putter is on said plane; (c) a flat base for supporting said unit, said flat base being arranged so that when said flat base is butted against a flat side of said grip of said putter, said light sheet is perpendicular to said side of said grip and an orientation of said projected line on said plane relative to said face of said head indicates an alignment of said grip relative to said face of said head; and (d) mounting means for mounting said unit on said grip of said putter.