Do You Care if Your Tee is Perfectly Level?
I don’t. In fact I always heard that you should tilt the tee forward or backward to influence the backspin imparted on the ball. However, since I could not find any decent information on the subject, I suspect that it may be an old wives tale.
Having a perfectly level tee is important enough to one inventor that he filed a patent application on his tee design. The patent application recently published as US Pub. No. 20080161137 titled “Golf Tee” and describes the invention as:
You can probably guess what the tee looks like.
This patent application also serves as yet another hard lesson as why inventors should not prepare and file patent applications themselves unless they thoroughly understand patent law. The following is the single claim from the patent application:
Click HERE and HERE to review a couple of additional posts regarding humorous errors that inventors make when drafting their own patent applications
Dave Dawsey – Keeping an Eye on Golf Tee Patents
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