Golf tee tool
OwnerJ. Thomas Goserudinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for convenient and safe carriage of golf tees in a pocket or a mount point for a ball marker is disclosed. The golf tee tool includes an elongated channel dimensioned to receive a ground-penetrating tip and shaft of a golf tee. A fluted frustoconical opening at a proximal end of the golf tee tool is dimensioned to receive the cupped ball support of the golf tee. A magnet mounted at a distal end of the golf tee tool is configured to allow the golf tee tool to retrieve a ferrous ball marker from a putting green surface or the golfer's pocket. The golf tee tool may carry a single or multiple golf tees. The golf tee tool may provide for carriage of a divot repair tool and a ball marker. A clip assembly is also disclosed for coupling the golf tee tool to an article.
Claims18
A golf tee tool, comprising:
- a body having a proximal end and a distal end;
- at least one channel defined in a longitudinal length of the body, the at least one channel dimensioned to removably receive a ground penetrating tip and a shaft of a golf tee through an opening at the proximal end of the body;
- a receptacle formed with a terminus of the distal end of the body, the receptacle having a flat side face oriented along a longitudinal length of the body,
- a magnet disposed in the receptacle at the distal end of the body, the magnet adapted to magnetically couple with a ferrous ball marker, such that the ferrous ball marker may be manipulated by a golfer as a fidget between a first orientation with a side edge of the ferrous ball marker coupled with an end face of the magnet, a second orientation with a face of the ferrous ball marker magnetically coupled with the flat side face of the receptacle, and a third orientation with the face of the ferrous ball marker magnetically coupled with the end face of the magnet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.