Golf practice device

Claim 1

In combination with a golf club having a head, shaft and handle, a golf practice and/or trainer device detachably locked to and around the shaft and outwardly of the head to selectively weight said club, said device comprising, an elongated gripping member made from elastomeric material and having a bore extending lengthwise to receive the shaft of the said club therein said gripping member including a body of bifurcated construction defined by opposed resilient wing sections connected together at one end for yieldable pivotal movement toward and away from one another, said wing sections extending divergently outwardly from one another and defining an inlet opening extending lengthwise therebetween in communicating relation with respect to said bore to enable snap-action insertion of the shaft of said club into said bore in the installed position thereof, an elongated hollow clamping member being open at its opposed ends slidably disposed in encompassing relation around said gripping member, and said clamping member having a minimum transverse dimension which is less than the maximum transverse dimension of said gripping member for resiliently deforming the body of said gripping member and for yieldably pivoting said wing sections inwardly toward the shaft of said club so that the confronting interior surface of said bore frictionally engages the confronting exterior surface of said shaft for locking said grippinG and clamping members, as a unit, onto said shaft and outwardly of said head during swinging movement of said golf club.