Pictorial tour process and applications thereof

A method of informative amusement with a website database containing a plurality of teaching pictorial tours of holes of diverse golf courses, comprising the steps of:

• providing a website with a database having a plurality of pictorial tours, wherein each pictorial tour features one hole of a golf course, the database having pictorial tours of multiple holes of diverse golf courses;
• providing a user with a machine for implementing a web browser and allowing selective playback of the pictorial tours;
• providing a global computer information network for handling the transmissions between the website and the user machine;
• arranging each teaching pictorial tour as an episode for continuous play from a beginning to an end and featuring a single hole, each episode comprising a series of scenes, sequenced together for automatic playback from beginning to end, which series of scenes are taken from a corresponding series of staging areas comprising at least:
• one staging area around the tees looking down the target line over the fairway to a prospective first-shot target zone for the original shot off the tee, as from a player's perspective;
• another staging area around the first-shot target zone looking either rearwards back to the tees or forward ahead to a second-shot target zone;
• and
• a further staging area around the greens looking back up the fairway;
• and then,
• allowing a user to choose any episode for playback vis-a-vis the user's machine and browser;
• and,
• allowing the user informative amusement with playback of the given single-hole episode, the user being limited in the informative amusement with the given single-hole episode by the content such that the pictorial tour only gives shot-by-shot evaluative information respecting the play of the hole by excluding promotional content for promoting the golf course as well as excluding golf-lesson content respecting general lessons on skills for playing the game of golf applicable to any hole, whereby the user is freed of extraneous content that diverges from informing the user respecting the shot-by-shot strategy how to play the hole and so allows the user to see himself in the context of his play through the hole vis-a-vis playback of the given episode.