Device for teaching the golf-swing.

Application filed September 29,1902. Serini No. 125,287. (No model.) all nil om· it may concern;

lie it known that I, Stanley Clifford, a bject of the King of Great Britain and Ireid, residing at London, England, have innted a new and useful Device for Teachin*¹· ) Golf-Swing, of which the following is a reification.

I Ins invention relates to a device or applied for teaching what is technically termed the art, of golfing as the f‘ golf-swing.”

I ho said device or appliance is designed use in houses; but it may be used wher)r a chib can be swung, as it occupies but -le space. It is, so to speak, a “home iner.”

According to my invention the said device appliance (of which two are always used 1 arranged one on each side of the player) isists of a stand comprising a base-plate and illar or post fixed thereto. On said pillar nounted an adjustable holderor clip adaptto carry a horizontally-arranged curved gth of rubber or a coiled spring, (or ether table resilient material,) the free ends of ieh project beyond the said holder or clip I form arms, which it is the endeavor of player to strike in the upward and down¹i’d s wing of hisgolf-elub. These arms may, desired, be provided with a bell or other inetic device, whereby an audible signal 1 be given each time they are touched by player's club, or, if preferred, the uhoic device may be on the holder.

u order that my invention may be readily lerstood, I will describe the same fully with arence to the accompanying drawings, ieh show a convenient arrangement of the ice, and wherein— 'igtire 1 is a side elevation of one of the ices, and Fig. 2 a plan thereof. Fig. 3 is lew illustrating the arrangement of the dees and the position the player occupies itively thereto.

is the base-plate, and b is the pillar or post, ich is screwed therein or fixed thereto in ’ other convenient manner.

is the holder or clip, which is of any suite shape. It is advantageously made of e and is formed with three eyes or loops) vhich two, d d, are at its outer ends, while third, d', is at its base or root. Through )0 eyes or loops d d d' there is threaded a length of rubber g, the free ends of which project beyond the holder and form arms, either of which is to be touched in the swing. 55

The holder c is connected to the pillar b by soldering orotherwise securing the eye or loop d' to a collar or ring e, adapted to be passed over said pillar. By raising or lowering this collar the holder travels with it and can there- 60 fore be adjlisted to sui t all heights and lengths of swing.

f is a set-screw for retaining the holder at the height to which it may be set on the pillar.

h represents bells, which are secured in any 65 appropriate manner to the rubber arms or to the eyes dd; but their use, although recommended, is optional.

To use the device, two of these, as depicted in Fig. 3 of the drawings, are placed at a suit- 70 able distance apart, and the player takes up a position midway between them. He must then in the upward swing of his club try to touch either of the rubber arms on his right _; side, then to touch t he same again on coining 75 down, and in the “finish off” he must touch either of the rubber arms on his left side. If these have been correctly placed, it is not possible for him to touch them unless he has swung back properly and has “followed well 80 through.”

In starting the player should aim at a paper pellet (answering to the ball) or at a mark on the ground, (neither of which is shown in the drawings,) on which he must keep his eye 85 fixed. The pellet or the mark must be in advance of an imaginary line between the two devices.

Care should be taken that the devices be placed so far apart that when a player is ef- 90 footing the swing it will be possible for him only to touch the rubber arms. Good players can place the devices for themselves; but moderate players or beginners should let a professional or good golfer point out to them 95 the position for these and the heights for the arms. By measuring these they can then in future adjust them for themselves.