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A golf putter including a shaft and an integral ball striking head so configured that a player utilizing the putter is automatically caused to place his hands on the handle of the shaft in a region forward of the ball about to be struck. For this purpose, the ball striking head is provided with a pa

A golf putter including a shaft and an integral ball striking head so configured that a player utilizing the putter is automatically caused to place his hands on the handle of the shaft in a region forward of the ball about to be struck. For this purpose, the ball striking head is provided with a pair of parallel lower base elements transverse to the longitudinal axis of the shaft, one adjacent to a forward face of the club head, and one adjacent to the rearward face of the club head. When the shaft is in an upright position and the rearward lower base element engages the ground, the forward lower base element is spaced from the ground. In this situation, gravity tends to cause the shaft to rotate forwardly and downwardly about the rearward lower base element resulting in simultaneous movement of the foward lower base element toward engagement with the ground. At such point that the forward and rearward lower base elements simultaneously engage the ground, the forward face of the club head is preferably inclined backward from the vertical within a range of approximately 0°to 4°.

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A golf putter comprising: a shaft having upper and lower ends and a longitudinal axis; a ball striking head mounted to said lower end of said shaft being generally defined by a forward member for striking a ball lying on the ground and a rear member opposite said forward member, said rear member ter

A golf putter comprising: a shaft having upper and lower ends and a longitudinal axis; a ball striking head mounted to said lower end of said shaft being generally defined by a forward member for striking a ball lying on the ground and a rear member opposite said forward member, said rear member terminating at a rear base which extends transverse of the longitudinal axis of said shaft, said foward member terminating at a forward base which extends transverse of the longitudinal axis of said shaft, said forward base and said rear base defining between them a channel which extends transverse of the longitudinal axis of said shaft and generally parallel to said forward base and said rear base, an extremity of said forward base being nearer to said upper end of said shaft than an extremity of said rear base such that when said shaft is in an upright position and said rear base engages the ground, gravity tends to cause said shaft to rotate forwardly and downwardly about said rear base with said forward base tending to move toward engagement with the ground.