Method of playing a golf game
OwnerEdward J. McNamara, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A method of managing the real-time play performance and play flow between geographically remote players of a golf type game comprising real golf shots where a hit ball traverses and encounters a real physical surface.
Claims15
A method of playing a golf type game between players who are not co-located and are geographically remote from each other, the golf type game comprising:
- providing a plurality of golf holes at the geographically remote locations on which players engage in real golf course play, where the geographically remote players each play the same like golf hole together at the exact same time from their respective geographic locations;
- providing real-time visual and audio communication between the geographically remote locations, which communication allows real-time viewing of each player, and communicates play performance and result recognition;
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- conducting communication of direct images and verbal interactions between the geographically remote players, during every aspect of playing the same like golf hole together at the exact same time from their respective geographic locations.
A method of playing a golf type game between players who are not co-located and are geographically remote from each other, where the golf type game comprises real golf course play of a plurality of golf holes that each comprise a plurality of separate short-game shots, the golf type game comprising:
- providing a plurality of golf holes at the geographically remote locations on which players engage in real golf course play, where the geographically remote players each play the same like golf hole together at the exact same time from their respective geographic locations;
- providing real-time visual and audio communication between the geographically remote locations, which communication allows real-time viewing of each player, and communicates play performance and result recognition;
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- conducting communication of direct images and verbal interactions between the geographically remote players, during every aspect of playing the same like golf hole together at the exact same time from their respective geographic locations.
A method of providing real-time remote course play competition between geographically remote players, via a competition system that comprises video camera devices and audio receiving devices for enabling of remote-to-remote player direct interaction and verbal communication of real golf course play, the method comprising:
- providing each geographically remote player with a ball to hit on a real golf hole in which a ball hit by a player traverses and encounters a real physical surface that is one of a fairway, rough, sand hazard, or green;
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- communicating audio and video images via the video camera devices and audio receiving devices to facilitate the real-time remote course play competition, wherein a system synchronizes the visual, audio and scoring activity between competing geographically remote players, such that each competiting player receives instructions to facilitate real-time interaction and receives audio sounds and video images that are managed, synchronized and provided by the competition system.
A method of playing a golf type game comprising a plurality of golf holes, wherein each golf hole comprises a plurality of separate short-game shots, the method comprising:
- providing at least one golf hole for which separate short-game shots are played;
- establishing play of a first non-putting short-game shot;
- subsequently establishing play of at least one putting short-game golf shot;
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- subsequently establishing play of at least one non-putting short-game golf shot.
A method of playing a golf type game on a plurality of golf holes that each comprise a hitting area having a plurality of surface types to hit from, the method comprising:
- determining a surface type from which to hit from for each short shot hole's hitting area, based on factors of the player's performance from the previous short shot hole, which factors include the player's stroke count and the location of the ball relative to the intended target, and based on the starting surface types for the present short shot hole, wherein when the player's performance at the previous short shot hole comprises a stroke count of one and the ball hit on the first hit attempt comes to rest within an inner zone of the hole's intended target area, the player hits from a more favorable surface type at the present short shot hole hitting slot, and when the player's performance at the previous short shot hole does not result in the desired stroke count or the ball coming to rest within the target area, the player hits from the less favorable surface type at the present short shot hole hitting area;
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- hitting the ball from either a more favorable or less favorable surface type as determined above, where the more favorable surface type comprises one of a turf or putting green surface, and the less favorable surface type comprises one of a sand or rough surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.