(19)
(11) EP 1 438 992 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
15.09.2004 Bulletin 2004/38

(43) Date of publication A2:
21.07.2004 Bulletin 2004/30

(21) Application number: 04000667.8

(22) Date of filing: 15.01.2004
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7A63B 69/36
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK

(30) Priority: 16.01.2003 US 345670

(71) Applicant: Yoshihiko Shioda
Charlotte, North Carolina 28210-3037 (US)

(72) Inventor:
  • Yoshihiko Shioda
    Charlotte, North Carolina 28210-3037 (US)

(74) Representative: Patentanwälte Ruff, Wilhelm, Beier, Dauster & Partner 
Kronenstrasse 30
70174 Stuttgart
70174 Stuttgart (DE)

   


(54) Golf practice and exercise mat


(57) A golf practice and exercise mat having two striking contours (20,30) with different heights and contours of artificial grass which gives golfers practice and exercise by swinging a golf club through the contoured pile that applies resistance to the golf club as the club head travels though the pile, thus enhancing strength and improving muscle memory. One contour, for irons (20), has the grass pile of the carpet increasing in height at a moderate, curved upward slope to an apex and then decreasing in height at a gradual, linear downward slope. The second contour, for woods (30), has the grass pile increasing in height at a gradual approximately linear slope until a transition point is reached at which the grass strand height increases in a single step change to a height at least two times greater than the height of the previous pile, and then decreasing in height in a linear downward slope.







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