Jeff Helstrom

US Patent:

20010002370, May 31, 2001

Filed:

Apr 23, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/298339

Inventors:

JEFF HELSTROM - WACONIA MN, US

International Classification:

A63B067/02

US Classification:

473/168000

Abstract:

An all weather golf driving range which is designed to drape and or cover a conventional range with a netting having a number of ball receiving bores formed therein to permit balls to be conveniently and automatically collected through motion induced by gravity from the configuration of the netting. When in position, the netting is configured in its elevation by the plurality of conical members, preferably in reticulated form, with ground support posts holding the netting up to form apices, and with the ball receiving bores being formed at the lower juncture points along or at the mutually adjacent conical zones.