Golf putter with in-line aiming and directional control capabilities

Claim 1

In a golf putter, the combination that comprises a. a shaft, a transversely horizontally elongated blade supported at one end of said shaft, said blade having a substantially vertical planar front face, a turf engaging bottom face located immediately rearwardly of the front face, and a rear face which extends arcuately rearwardly and upwardly above the level of said bottom face, said front face, bottom face and rear face each being transversely horizontally elongated, said rear face rotatably engaging the turf in blade supporting relation as the blade is tilted rearwardly, and b. a putting path sighting device carried by the blade and projecting angularly upwardly and rearwardly relative thereto, said blade having a rearwardly tilted position in which the front face is elevated, and said device extends rearwardly and substantially horizontally, c. there being projection means on the blade facing downwardly to engage the turf as the blade is tilted rearwardly, to prevent twisting of the blade during such tilting, said projection means carried by said transverse end portions of the blade, whereby the putter may be tilted rearwardly on said projection means, by tilting the shaft rearwardly and downwardly, and the sighting device brought into alignment relative to a cup on a green, and the putter may then be tilted back upwardly by tilting the shaft upwardly and forwardly to rotate the blade on the green turf and without twisting of the blade to bring the blade front face into aligned putting position.