US 8,801,547 B2Granted

Method for selecting golf club

AssigneeSRI Sports Limited

InventorsKazuya Kamino, Keiji Moriyama

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Abstract

A plurality of golf clubs having mutually different flex point rates of a shaft is prepared. A subject hits a golf ball with one reference club included in the golf clubs. A face angle of the golf club immediately before hitting is measured by an apparatus 10. A recommended flex point rate P is calculated by substituting, into the following mathematical expression, the face angle Q and the flex point rate R of the reference club: P=0.8648·Q+R−5.033 A golf club having a shaft whose difference between the flex point rate and the recommended flex point rate P is within a predetermined range is selected as a recommended club. The subject hits a golf ball with the recommended club. The apparatus 10 measures a speed, a launch angle, a backspin speed, a sidespin speed, and a deflection angle of the golf ball.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A method for selecting a golf club fitted to a subject from a plurality of golf clubs having mutually different physical properties of a shaft, the method for selecting a golf club including:

a step of having a subject hit a golf ball with a reference golf club and measuring behavior of the reference club;
a step of determining a recommended range of physical properties of the shaft on the basis of measurement result of the behavior of the reference club;
a step of determining a recommended club with a shaft having the physical properties which fall within the recommended range, from the plurality of golf clubs;
a step of having the subject hit a golf ball with the recommended club, and measuring behavior of the recommended club or behavior of the golf ball;
and
a step of judging whether or not the recommended club is fitted to the subject based on the behavior of the recommended club or the behavior of the golf ball,
wherein the physical property of the shaft is a flex point rate, and behavior of the reference club is a face angle of a head the reference club has, and
wherein determination of the recommended range is made based on a linear expression with the flex point rate and the face angle as variables.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/236,834Filed 20 Sep 2011
Priority: JP 2010-2458812 Nov 2010
Published: US 2012/0108353 A13 May 2012
Granted: 12 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

A63B 60/42
Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like: devices for measuring, verifying, correcting or customising the inherent…
A63B 24/0006
Analysing the course of a movement or motion sequences during an exercise or trainings sequence, e.g. swing for golf or tennis: computerised…
A63B 69/3623
For golf: for driving
G01B 5/0023
Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of mechanical techniques: measuring of sport goods, e.g. bowling accessories, golfclubs, game balls