Golf tee with ball elevating members

Abstract

A golf tee includes a shaft portion with upper and lower end portions. A generally hollow funnel-shaped first end portion is provided for supporting a golf ball thereon and extends from the upper end of the shaft portion. One or more prongs extend upwardly from the first end portion to elevate the golf ball a predetermined distance off the top of the tee. A generally tapered second end portion is provided for anchoring the tee into the ground and extends from the lower end of the shaft portion. An optional height adjustment member is slidably positioned on the shaft portion for setting a height of the tee relative to the ground. The shaft portion includes a plurality of vertically spaced slots separated by at least one ring for selectively holding the height adjustment member in one of the slots.

Description

FIELD AND BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention is generally directed to golf tees, and more particularly to a golf tee with ball elevating members. [0002] It is often said that in golf swing is everything. In other words, while teeing-off, a good contact of the club head with the ball, along with an appropriate follow-through of the swing, can take the ball to a great distance and land it at a desirable spot on the fairway. In this regard, appropriate placement of the ball to a desired height off the ground is very important. To this end, a golfer can use a very long tee, standard size tee, an extra short tee, or a tee with a fixed flat stopping point. The extra long tee is anchored into the ground and is manually raised or lowered to an approximate height. However, rarely do they lift or lower the tee to the exact height all the time. This results in skying or topping of the ball. Alignment is often off as well due to the fact that a golfer's feet and body postu...

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Benefits of technology

[0012] Another object of the present invention is to provide a golf tee which includes a height adjustment mechanism for allowing a golfer to consistently and repeatedly set the ball at the same or different height relative to the ground, as preferred.

[0013] Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a golf tee with a height adjustment mechanism which eliminates the need for a golfer to carry multiple or an assortment of various length tees. In other words, a golfer need to carry only one golf tee of the present invention that allows the player to set different heights of the ball relative to the ground.

Problems solved by technology

However, rarely do they lift or lower the tee to the exact height all the time.

This results in skying or topping of the ball.

On the other hand, in golf, a player's body, shoulders, legs and hips are at an angle to the intended target, making the alignment far more difficult.

Should they prefer the ball lower or higher on that tee, however, they cannot use the set height tee.

However, all of these are difficult to anchor the tee stem at an exact depth that will place the ball at an exact height required or desired by the golfer.

This would obviously be cumbersome, not to mention additional time required prior to tee-off.

However, they do not provide any means for elevating the ball off the tee itself.

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