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Process for simulating game of golf
OwnerFranklin C. Millerinventor
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The process utilizes a conventional golf practice driving range with added greens with flags for approach shots, the conventional practice putting greens and a computer with a viewing screen. The computer is programmable, as by a cassette tape, to show in sequence layout and data on each of the eighteen holes of a selected classical golf course. The actual drives and approach shots are "played" on the practice driving range and are added to the computer information on the screen to show ball placement on the screened course. A golfer can play realistically any of the great courses of the world and measure his game against the par for those courses by the process, completing putting out for a final score on adjacent practice greens. A putting phase for each hole is preferably done after the drive and approach shots are made for all eighteen holes, or each nine holes, but may be done on the practice green after the drive and approach shots for each hole.
A game process employing a conventional golf practice range with driving range, approach greens, practice putting greens, a computer having a read-out screen programmable with a golf course hole layout and player accessible controls for indicating the playing ball position on said hole layout on said screen, the steps including programming said computer to image successively the hole layout for each hole of a given golf course, driving a ball on the driving range, positioning an image ball on said screen image hole layout in accordance with the position on the driving range of the driven ball, stroking successive balls on said driving range, positioning said image ball on said screen layout in accordance with the accumulated distance from stroking of the first and successive balls, stroking another ball on said putting practice green after said image ball indicates location on said imaged green until said ball is downed in said green cup, and repeating the steps of the process for each screened hole layout with which the computer is programmed.
A game process employing a conventional golf practice range with a driving range, approach greens and practice putting greens;
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