Patent Application
20070049394
The present invention relates to a game expressed intended to be played by a golf foursome during their round of golf, which game may or may not include a wager.
Golf is an extremely popular game. There have been numerous games developed which “simulate” the game of golf, such as U.S. Pat. No. 6,047,967 to Murphy et al., and U.S. Pat. No. 5,234,218 to LaRocca.
According to the present invention there is provided a game to be played by a golf foursome during a round of golf. The game includes instructions outlining a number of golf contests, intended to make the round of golf more entertaining, in the form of skills, challenges, or scoring options. The instructions instruct the players to compete in golf pairings and randomly select one of the golf contests prior to beginning each golf hole.
These and other features of the invention will become more apparent from the following description in which reference is made to the appended drawings, the drawings are for the purpose of illustration only and are not intended to in any way limit the scope of the invention to the particular embodiment or embodiments shown, wherein:
The preferred embodiment, a game intended to be played by a golf foursome during a round of golf will now be described with reference to sample set of instructions and selection dice illustrated in
The game includes instructions and two dice: a golf pairings selection dice 100 shown in
On the first tee one player in the foursome rolls both dice to begin the game. Golf pairings selection dice 100 determines the partners while golf contest selection dice 200 determines the game to be played for that hole. As each die is six sided, there are 36 different combinations. Dice 100 and 200 are rolled on each tee, rotating through all four players.
An example of the presentation of the game may have dice 100 and 200 as different colors, such as blue and red, respectively. Dice 100 and 200 come in a faux velvet bag with drawstring (not shown), are made of polurethane foam or other such material, and about 2 inches on each side with rounded corners with debossed or inscripted print on each side.
Each player accumulates points when their team wins a hole and/or when points are awarded individually in certain games. Make sure you are clear on the bet value of points to be won before you tee off. At the end of the round each player in the foursome adds up the points they have accumulated, both as individuals and as team players. Their total is compared to that of the other players, and rewarded accordingly. For example, if there was a friendly wager, each person would pay what he or she owes to the others.
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Hi/Lo 202: In this game each player on a team plays their own ball and their scores are totaled to give a team score. If player A gets 4, and player B gets 5, the team score is 9. The team with the lowest total wins the hole. A point is added to the winning team's individual totals.
Greenies 204: In this game, one good shot on the hole can help your team win a bet point. Points or nibs are won by individual players as follows:
Skills Challenge 206: Points or nibs are won by individual players as follows:
Best Ball 208: Each player on the team plays his or her own golf ball throughout the hole, and the low score or “best ball” of the two players serves as the team score. If Player A gets a 5 and B gets a 4, then the team score for that hole is 4. The team with the lowest best ball adds a point to each of their individual totals for winning the hole.
Stableford 210: In a Stableford competition the golfers are awarded scores based on their performance. In this embodiment, a Modified Stableford version is used:
Las Vegas 212: In Las Vegas, each player plays their own ball and the two player's scores are combined or paired together to give a team total. The scores are not added together as in HI/Lo. If Player A gets a 4 and Player B gets a 5, the team score is 45 (the lower number goes first). If both players get 4s, that's 44; if one gets an 8 and the other gets a 3, that's 38. The team with the lowest paired score wins the hole and a point is added to each individual total. Another option is to take the difference between the team totals, which then determines the number of points won on the hole. For example: Team A scores 44 and Team B scores 38; each player on Team B wins 6 points.
These instructions outline a number of golf contests, intended to make the round of golf more entertaining. These golf contests are in the form of both skills challenges and scoring options. The instructions direct that the players randomly select one of the golf contests prior to beginning each golf hole. A random golf contest selection device is provided in the form of die 200. It will be appreciated that other forms of random selection device could be alternatively used, and that other contests may be incorporated
In view of the fact that the golf pairings will be continually changing, it may be preferable that points be awarded to each player based upon his or her individual performance on the skills challenges and points be awarded to each player in each of the golf pairings based upon the relative performance of their golf pairings.
The above game rules are a sample of a game intended to be played by a golf foursome during a round of golf. The instructions instruct the golfers to randomly select golf pairings prior to beginning each golf hole, such that the golf pairings change during the round of golf. Referring to
In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be one and only one of the elements.
It will be apparent to one skilled in the art that modifications may be made to the illustrated embodiment without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter defined in the Claims.
