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Method for custom fitting golf clubs

Patent 4059270 Issued on November 22, 1977. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject November 22, 1994. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

1550665

1676270

2214356

3145025

Inventor

Application

No. 05/632950 filed on 11/18/1975

US Classes:

473/409, Method473/199Electrical

Examiners

Primary: Apley, Richard J.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Abstract

A device utilizing a system of photobeam measurers to detect the speed imparted to a golf ball by a golfer that is utilized with a golf club of adjustable weight and design for determining the optimum club design for a particular individual golfer being tested. The device is used in a method of custom-fitting golf clubs in which the proper swing weight, length, and lie and loft angles of a golf club are determined. The method of fitting consists in a series of steps in which a golfer hits a series of balls through the photobeams with a club which is incrementally lengthened, weighted, and has its lie angle adjusted. The adjustments are made until the point is reached at which the golfer imparts maximum velocity.

Other References

  • "The Search for the Perfect Swing" by Cochran and Stobbs; 1968; pp. 4, 204-207, 209-211, 220, 221, 229 and 230
  • "Golf Digest"; July 1971; pp. 28-33
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