Gertrude Willoughby, GB189514503A
A New Golf Scorer.
Image credit: Willoughby, G. (1895)
On June 27, 1896, Gertrude Willoughby of Fulmer Hall, Slough, received a patent for an ingenious mechanical golf scorer designed to track strokes at each hole and tally the total score. Her device used a system of rotating discs and toothed rings — each advanced by a lever — to record scores hole by hole while updating the cumulative total.
Date of Application: 31 July 1895
Date of Issuance: 27 June 1896
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