All-in-one golf tool

A game tool for a game played with a substantially spherical playing ball and a playing club having an elongated shaft and a head for striking said ball, said head having a planar face with a plurality of grooves, said game tool comprising:

• a plate-like body having a circular hole passing therethrough, said circular hole having a diameter and a circumference substantially equal to those of a playing ball, so that the spherical roundness of said playing ball or its departure therefrom may be verified by passing said playing ball through said circular hole, said plate-like body further having a snapping means for use in attaching said game tool to a shaft of a playing club;
• a means for obstructing a portion of the circumference of said circular hole, so that a playing ball may be prevented from passing therethrough, and so that, when said game tool is attached to a shaft of a playing club by said snapping means, a playing ball may be cradled in the partially obstructed circular hole and retrieved from an inaccessible position and wherein said snapping means comprises two fingers extending substantially parallel to one another from said plate-like body, one of said two fingers having a resilient snap extending inward within the space between said two fngers toward said plate-like body, said resilient snap having a concavely rounded portion facing the other of said two fingers, so that a shaft of a playing club may be snappingly held against the other of said two fingers by said concavely rounded portion of said resilient snap.

A game tool for a game played with a substantially spherical playing ball and a playing club having an elongated shaft and a head for striking said ball, said head having a planar face with a plurality of grooves, said game tool comprising:

• a plate-like body having a circular hole passing therethrough, said circular hole having a diameter and a circumference substantially equal to those of a playing ball, so that the spherical roundness of said playing ball or its departure therefrom may be verified by passing said playing ball through said circular hole, said plate-like body further having a snapping means for use in attaching said game tool to a shaft of a playing club;
• a means for obstructing a portion of the circumference of said circular hole, so that a playing ball may be prevented from passing therethrough, and so that, when said game tool is attached to a shaft of a playing club by said snapping means, a playing ball may be cradled in the partially obstructed circular hole and retrieved from an inaccessible position, wherein said means for obstructing is a button attached to said plate-like body adjacent to and overlapping a portion of the circumference of said circular hole, said button having the shape of a disc and being rotatable about an axis through its center, said button further having a cut-out portion at least substantially equal in shape and area to the amount by which said button overlaps said circular hole, so that said button may partially obstruct said circular hole unless said cut-out portion is aligned with said circular hole and said plate-like body and said button are integrally injection molded from a synthetic polymeric material.