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Finally a Club for all the Baseball Loving Golfers

By David Dawsey PE Esq

I have never been much of a baseball fan so perhaps the genius of this invention is lost on me. Check out the invention disclosed in a patent application that published last week as US Pub. No. 20100099508 titled ?Ball Game and Equipment.?

The patent application describes the invention as:

Game apparatus for playing a baseball-like and golf-like game to be played on a golf course or a sports field or yard with rules of play for golf courses and sports fields or yards. The game apparatus includes a unitary bat-putter that resembles a baseball bat but has a flat surface at at least one end of the bat-putter, to be used to putt a ball. The game apparatus for sports field or yard play includes a targets including flagsticks inserted through stackable above ground target bodies set in advance of play on a sports field or yard to create a course of play.
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[0009] The present invention provides a combination fungo bat and golf putter, and related game equipment that may be used to provide answers to the needs and desires for a game combining some of the more enjoyable aspects of baseball batting and golf play as disclosed herein and defined in the appended claims.

[0010] As a first important aspect of the playing equipment disclosed herein, a combination bat-putter may include an elongate generally cylindrical ball-striking barrel portion having an outer tip end and a circular cross-sectional shape with a diameter, a tapered mid portion extending in a first direction away from the barrel portion, a slender handle portion connected with the barrel portion through the tapered mid portion, and a planar ground-stroke ball-striking face located at the outer tip end of the barrel portion and extending along the barrel portion over a short distance.

[0011] In another embodiment of the bat-putter a planar ball-striking face may be provided on the knob at the end of the handle.

Can?t golf just simply be golf?

Dave Dawsey   - Watching Golf Putter Patents

PS ? check out additional putter patents HERE  

Full post as published by Golf Patents on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).