How’s Your Golf Posture? This Invention May Help You Improve It
Yet another interesting golf training device patent
application. Boy, they are a dime a dozen; and I, like most golfers, would try almost
anything to improve my game.
The invention disclosed in the application that published as
US Pub. No. 20080146364 titled “Device for Correcting Golf Swing Posture” is unlike most training aids
in that it is directed to the lower body. The application describes the
invention as:
posture. The device includes a footboard which is formed so that a foot is
seated and supported thereon, and has a pair of facing locking brackets and a
foot support part for supporting a foot. A support cuff is provided at an end
of the footboard to support a leg, a lower surface of the support cuff, which
contacts the footboard, being formed to be convex such that the support cuff
rotates within a range of swing motion, the support cuff having locking
recesses which are coupled to the locking brackets and a leg support part for
supporting the leg. A fastening means detachably fastens the locking brackets
of the footboard to the locking recesses of the support cuff. Thereby, the
support cuff rotates about the fastening means at a predetermined angle as
swing motion is conducted. Therefore, the support cuff can rotate relative to
the footboard at a predetermined angle within the range of swing motion, so
that the posture correction device can precisely correct swing posture, and can
perfectly apply and support swing power, thus improving swing power, and making
the ball fly in the desired direction, therefore improving golfing performance.
I am not totally convinced that this invention would help my
game, but I would give it a try.
Good luck.
Dave Dawsey
– Keeping an Eye on Golf Inventions