Games using tangible projectile – Golf – Club selection – ball direction – or distance indicating aid
Patent
1995-06-16
1998-08-25
Harrison, Jessica
Games using tangible projectile
Golf
Club selection, ball direction, or distance indicating aid
473131, 342126, 342357, 342450, 340500, 34082532, 340323R, A63B 7106, G06F 1544, G09F 1700
Patent
active
057978093
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a golf course guidance method to be used for giving guidance on a golf course, a device for same, and a system to manage a golf course.
On golf courses, information regarding conditions of the course is usually given to players by caddies and/or signposts.
For example, after a tee shot, the remaining distance to the green for the second shot, the third shot or shots thereafter is usually given depending on the caddie's instincts, or is calculated according to markers such as trees and stakes arranged along the fairway.
However, it requires considerable expertise to estimate the remaining distance through instinct, because of changes in the appearance of the environs due to the season, the weather, the surroundings and so forth. Furthermore, the number of self-service golf courses, which have no caddies, has been increasing over recent years. On such golf courses, to estimating the remaining distance is even more difficult.
When there are no caddies on a blind hole. Where the course dog legs so that it is not possible to look ahead, a player himself has to make sure that there are no other players playing in front of him before shooting a ball. Otherwise, it is very dangerous because he might hit the ball into the preceding party. On the other hand, checking for himself that there are no other players in front of him before each shot delays the play, causes unnecessary trouble for the player, reducing the pleasure of the game.
Furthermore, information on signposts alone is not sufficient to inform of natural conditions of the terrain including the rise and fall of each hole, woods and various hazards such as ravines, streams and ponds, as well as bunkers, out of bounds, one-penalty areas and other man-made terrain conditions related to rules to a satisfactory extent; with signpost information alone, it is especially difficult to know the slope or grain of a green.
When counting total scores in a competition, score management is troublesome and takes a long time, and it is impossible to determine the ranking of all players until the last player has holed out and reached the caddie house so that the score cards of all the players can be collected for tabulation. Especially in the case of scoring according to the Peoria system, or the New Peoria system, which call for deciding each player's handicap using secret holes, it is not easy for a player to know even his own net score.
As described above, conventional methods make it necessary to use one's instincts or the like to know various conditions of each hole, including the green, and are therefore inaccurate, tedious or may present danger.
Furthermore, they present another problem in that it is not easy to calculate total scores or ascertain the players' situations.
OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In order to solve the problems in the prior art, an object of the invention is to provide a golf course guidance method to be used for giving guidance to players on a golf course, a device for same, and a system to manage a golf course, said method being capable of facilitating knowing of conditions of holes and players as well as totaling of scores.
A golf course guidance method according to the invention includes dividing the plan view of each hole into small cells, storing data for the area corresponding to; each cell beforehand, choosing two cells out of the aforementioned cells and reading out stored data regarding the area between the two chosen cells to. As data for each cell is stored, it is possible to give guidance as to the area between any two locations in the form of approximate data by using the corresponding cells. Thus, the invention is capable of providing information with a minimal quantity of stored data regarding the area between any two locations within the boundary of a hole.
A golf course guidance method according to another feature of the invention calls for dividing the plan view of each hole into small cells, storing data for each cell beforehand, detecting the location of the u
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Harrison Jessica
Sager Mark A.
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