Divot indicating golf practice mat

Claim 1

In a golf practice mat over which a golf club may be swung toward a golf ball to impress a pattern in the mat dependent upon the direction and depth of movement of the club head relative to said mat comprising: 1. a rigid base; 2. a plurality of independent strands of soft durable bendable wire able to withstand fatigue from repeated bending and straightening thereof; 3. means for mounting each of said strands of bendable wire in close spaced relation on said base with their free ends extending upwardly therefrom to a level providing a turfy grass like surface for supporting a golf ball thereon and for receiving an impression upon bending of such strands of bendable wire as are struck by the stroke of the head of a golf club over such surface; 4. a panel of rigid material substantially matching said base; 5. a plurality of apertures formed through said panel in identical spaced relation to the individual strands of bendable wire on said base for passage of each separate strand through an individual aperture in said panel; 6. upstanding rods on said base and extending through said panel for guiding the latter for vertical movement in parallel relation relative to said base from the lower toward the upper extremities of said strands of bendable wire extending upwardly therefrom; and 7. means on said panel for manually raising and lowering the latter relative to said base for simultaneously straightening each bent strand of bendable wire individually back into upstanding unbent condition.