Abstract: An apparatus that separates a golf club head and a golf club shaft to which it is adhesively secured. A hosel push member is positioned in abutting relation to the hosel of the club head. An externally threaded guide tube is slideably inserted over the hand grip of a golf club shaft and is positioned in trailing relation to the hosel push member. A drive member in the form of a coil spring or a rigid tube is ensleeved around the guide tube, and a drive member push member screw threadedly engages the threads on the guide tube so that advancement of the drive member push member applies pressure upon the drive member. Primary and auxiliary stop members grip the shaft on the trailing end of the guide tube to prevent rotation and slippage of the guide tube. Heating the hosel after application of pressure onto the drive member weakens the adhesive and results in separation of the club head from the shaft.

Abstract: An apparatus that separates a golf club head and a golf club shaft to which it is adhesively secured. A hosel push member is positioned in abutting relation to the hosel of the club head. An externally threaded guide tube is slideably inserted over the hand grip of a golf club shaft and is positioned in trailing relation to the hosel push member. A drive member in the form of a coil spring or a rigid tube is ensleeved around the guide tube, and a drive member push member screw threadedly engages the threads on the guide tube so that advancement of the drive member push member applies pressure upon the drive member. Heating the hosel after application of pressure onto the drive member weakens the adhesive and results in separation of the club head from the shaft.

Abstract: A device is retrofit onto the striking face of an existing putter to change the characteristics of the striking face. In a first embodiment, the device includes a first part and a second part and the second part is bent at a ninety degree angle relative to the first part. The second part overlies a top edge of the existing putter to align the first part with the striking face of the existing putter. A first side of a double-sided pressure sensitive tape overlies the rear side of the first part and a second side of the tape is covered by a sheet of paper that is peeled off by a consumer when the device is to be attached to the existing putter. When the second side of the tape is exposed by peeling off the paper that covers it, the second side of the tape is placed into overlying relation to the striking surface of the putter to attach the first part of the device in overlying relation to the striking surface.

Abstract: Three known devices for teaching golfers how to hold their clubs are structurally modified and used together as a set. The three devices are a lie indicator, a shaft position indicator, and a loft indicator. A record member is provided to record the information provided by use of all three of the devices as a set. After the three devices have been used on all of the golfer's clubs and the information provided has been recorded on the record member, further correct holding of the clubs may be obtained without further use of all three devices. Instead, the golfer merely needs to attach the shaft position indicator to each club shaft and the loft indicator to each club face, and to hold each club in the manner recorded on the record member. Accordingly, the lie indicator need not be used repeatedly, and the golfer need not remember the information recorded on the record member.

Abstract: A putting aid for use by golfers in improving putting strokes is releasably attachable to a golf clubhead and includes a parallelepiped housing for a ball and a plurality of angularly disposed pockets into which the ball rolls during a putting stroke. The pocket within which the ball comes to rest indicates whether the putter blade was held square with an intended line of putt during the stroke, or at an angle that causes the putt to be missed. The ball rolls into a wedge-shaped recess formed in a bottom wall of the housing. The recess has a pointed leading end that points toward the cup when the putting aid is properly attached to the putter, and a wide, arcuate trailing end within which the pockets are formed. The pockets are spaced so that a swing that is more than one degree off from a perfect swing is indicated by the ball rolling into a pocket positioned out of alignment with the pointed leading end of the recess.

Abstract: A lie indicator for a golf clubhead that has utility as a golf practice aid. The indicator includes a straight bubble tube mounted in slightly skewed relation to a base member so that the axis of the tube and the axis of the base member are skewed at about one degree with respect to one another. The base member includes a flush mounted magnet that releasably secures the indicator to the face of the clubhead. The base member is aligned with a score line on the face of the clubhead so that when the golfer centers the bubble in the tube, an apparent one degree over compensation is provided. However, the lie angle of the clubhead is correct at the moment of ball impact because the mass of the clubhead causes it to rotate during the swing by about one degree.

Abstract: A clinometer releasably securable to a golf club head to indicate its loft and to detect its lie. The clinometer has a sector shape and its circumferential extent is sixty degrees of arc. An arcuate bubble tube having accompanying indicia to indicate differing angular orientations of a club head face is secured to the arcuate top wall of the device and a straight bubble tube extends horizontally from a flat sector shaped wall to show the lie of the club head.

Abstract: A golf training aide is attached to a golf club shaft and visually indicates to the golfer when the club shaft is held in a vertical plane and when the club head is held in proper angular relation to the ground. An indication of vertical alignment of the shaft is given when a first bubble is centered in a first bubble tube member and an indication of proper club head position is given when a second bubble is centered in a second bubble tube member. In a first embodiment, the second bubble tube member is linear-in-configuration and is rotatable about a horizontal axis. In a second embodiment, the second bubble tube member is arcuate-in-configuration and has a fixed position.

Abstract: A spring-loaded device that separates a golf club head and a golf club shaft to which it is adhesively secured. An elongate drive tube means has a distal end that engages a member that abuts the hosel part of the golf club head and a proximal end that carries a compression spring and a nut that compresses the spring when rotated. The proximal end of a golf club shaft is axially received and secured within a shaft engagement member that is disposed at the proximal end of the drive tube member in axial alignment with the drive tube but which is unsecured thereto. Thus, as the nut is rotated, the spring urges the shaft engaging member and the club shaft secured thereto to travel away from the hosel which is held against movement by the member that engages it. Heating the hosel releases the grip of the adhesive and the spring member drives the shaft out of the hosel before the shaft can suffer heat damage.