A putter uses an angled mirrored upper club surface with a deeply scribed and pigment filled line to act as a sighting device. In one embodiment, a clear plastic block has a bottom surface coated with a highly reflective coating. A pair of lines are scribed on upper and lower surfaces of the block and must be aligned while the target is sighted in the mirrored surface. Other embodiments utilize deep grooves formed in the top of a mirrored or unmirrored club surface.
A golf club with a laser alignment system which can be built into the club or which can be attachable and detachable. The golf club includes a shaft, a grip and a clubhead. The alignment system includes a laser beam generator and facilitates the emission of the laser beam in a direction perpendicular to and above the clubface and above the desired location on the clubface for striking the golf ball. Also provided is a way to attach the laser beam point of emission to the clubhead in a position above the level of the ball and such that it is projected over the vertical height of the golf ball and perpendicular to the clubface.
An alignment system and method of use provide significant improvement in the accuracy of a golf stroke or putt. The alignment system may be incorporated into or attached to the head or shaft of a golf club such as a putter or a chipper. One component of the alignment system is a sighting alignment system which includes a turning mirror that is attached to the club head or shaft or may be integral to the top or rear portion of the golf club head. While viewing the reflection of the ball and target through the mirror, the golfer obtains visual feed-back that is very sensitive to club positioning and aiming. The other component is another optical alignment system in which parallax is removed to put the golfer's eye in the proper plane to assure alignment over the golf club head. When both alignments are maintained in the reflected image during the golfer's stroke, the accuracy of the stroke is dramatically improved.
An improved golf putter having a head formed by a vertical wall and a horizontal base, an inclined bar extending rearwardly at an angle from the top end of the vertical wall, a shaft mounting bar extending horizontally from the upper end of the inclined bar toward one end of the vertical wall, and a shaft mounted on the other end of the shaft mounting bar. The putter is swung with the inclined bar aligned with the direction of the hole. The shaft and the shaft mounting bar do not hinder the view of the inclined bar. A mirror is attachable to an upper surface of the inclined bar. Given the clear view of the inclined bar with the mirror thereon, a golfer easily sights the hole while looking down, realigns the putter if necessary, and is able to swing the putter in the proper direction.
A putter is disclosed having a beveled portion (16, 16') on the face (13, 13') of its club head (10, 10') to leave a straight line of intersection (17, 17') that can be viewed for use as a reference even with the club head tilted forward while addressing a ball, and which, as viewed by the golfer, appears to be horizontal when either the toe or heel portion of the club is raised up from the putting surface.
An improved optical putter. The optical putter has a club head whose cross-section is characterized as having four active surfaces: a substantially flat surface for resting the club head upon the green in a first alignment position; a ball-addressing surface; a second, substantially flat, reflective surface for aligning the golf club in a second alignment position; and a substantially flat bottom surface that is substantially perpendicular to the ball-addressing surface. The reflective surface is a semi-circular wedge shape having a sighting line for guiding the golfer to position her or her head and stance. Depending upon the alignment position, the reflecting surface can face upwardly towards the eye of the golfer or towards the cup of the green.
