Indoor golf tee
AssigneeK2 Golf, LLC
InventorKevin Richard Kreppein
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Abstract
An indoor golf tee includes a tee base and a tee shaft. The tee base has a base top portion and a base bottom portion. The base top portion has a connecting hole therethrough. The tee shaft has a shaft top portion, a shaft bottom portion, and a shaft body. The shaft body is connected between the shaft bottom portion and the shaft top portion. The shaft top portion is configured to hold a golf ball thereon. The shaft bottom portion is removably connected in the connecting hole of the tee base in a perpendicular orientation to the tee base. When the base bottom portion of the tee base is positioned on a surface, and the shaft bottom portion is connected in the connecting hole of the base top portion, the tee base orients the tee shaft in the perpendicular orientation to the surface.
Claims16
An indoor golf tee comprising:
- a tee base with a base top portion and a base bottom portion, the base top portion has a connecting hole therethrough;
- a tee shaft, the tee shaft having a shaft top portion, a shaft bottom portion, and a shaft body connected between the shaft bottom portion and the shaft top portion;
- the shaft top portion is configured to hold a golf ball thereon;
- the shaft bottom portion is removably connected in the connecting hole of the tee base in a perpendicular orientation to the tee base;
- an attachment mechanism configured to attach a weighted bag to the indoor golf tee, wherein the attachment mechanism including:
- a stem attached to the indoor golf tee at a first end;
- and
- a diamond attachment portion on a second end of the stem, the diamond attachment portion is configured for connecting a lanyard between the indoor golf tee and the weighted bag;
- wherein the diamond attachment portion including:
- a first slit on a first side of the diamond attachment portion;
- a second slit on a second side of the diamond attachment portion;
- and
- wherein, when a looped end of the lanyard is looped around the diamond attachment portion and onto the stem and then pulled over the diamond attachment portion, a first side piece is configured to compress to allow the looped end to enter the first slit on the first side of the diamond attachment portion, and a second side piece is configured to compress to allow the looped end to enter the second slit on the second side of the diamond attachment portion.
An indoor golf tee comprising:
- a tee base;
- a tee shaft connected to the tee base and configured to hold a golf ball thereon;
- and
- an attachment mechanism configured to attach a weighted bag to the indoor golf tee, wherein the attachment mechanism including a lanyard;
- the weighted bag is attached to the indoor golf tee via the lanyard, the lanyard including a swiveled connection between the weighted bag and the indoor golf tee, the swiveled connection is configured to prevent the lanyard from twisting;
- the lanyard is connected to the weighted bag via a D-ring connector attached on a corner of the weighted bag;
- and
- wherein, when the weighted bag is attached to the indoor golf tee via the lanyard, the weighted bag is configured to prevent the indoor golf tee from being hit farther away from the weighted bag than a length of the lanyard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.