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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1997
David Hoyt, Gardena, CA (US);
Gary Aldcroft, Gardena, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A putting aid to assist the golfer in accurately predicting the path along which the golf ball will travel in rolling toward the cup along a sloping green. The aid includes a light-weight, hand-held casing which has an easy-to-use viewing window with appropriate indexing lines for reading the slope of the green relative to the location of the putting cut. In using the device, after the cup location and slope of the green are appropriately aligned with the indexing lines provided on the viewing window, a cooperating pendulum and pointer mechanism provides a direct reading in feet of the slope of the green as a function of putting length on an easy-to-read scale imprinted on one face of the casing. The scale permits a reading of the slope of the green in feet either to the left or right as a function of the length of the put.