Games using tangible projectile – Golf
Reexamination Certificate
1998-08-20
2001-01-09
O'Neill, Michael (Department: 3713)
Games using tangible projectile
Golf
C473S407000, C473S409000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06171199
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Technical Field
The invention relates generally to a method and system for use to provide information on golf courses to players and for course design and routine modification. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and system for use to provide information on golf courses to players as to course difficulty, hole length and slope, pin and tee location, etc. for the current day or any given day in the future, and for course design and routine modification of pin and tee location to maintain course difficulty during pin and tee movement by maintaining overall course slope while altering the slope on each hole.
Specifically, the invention is a method and system of (1) providing information on golf courses to players as to course difficulty, hole length and slope, pin and tee location, etc. for the current day or any given day in the future, (2) designing golf courses including topography, sand and water trap location, pin and tee area locations, etc. to provide a desired course difficulty based upon slope and other parameters, (3) of routinely modifying golf courses including pin and tee location to maintain constant course difficulty and ratings based upon maintaining overall course slopes and other parameters while altering individual hole slopes and parameters by correlating the slopes and parameters, and/or (4) of modifying golf courses including pin and tee location to systematically adjust course difficulty and ratings to a predetermined and desired difficulty. The method and system utilizes global positioning satellites to plot golf courses including the slope, topography and other parameters thereof.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Golf has become a very popular sport. In comparison to other sports, golf is unique in that each course, and each hole within each course, is unique. Much expert knowledge and work are necessary in the planning, design, development, creation, and maintenance of each golf course. Each course, and each hole therein, thus represents a unique challenge for every golfer.
In addition, golfers must continually adapt their game as each course generally changes from time to time, and often every day as at least the tees and the pins are moved. Typically, to protect the turf on the teeing area and around the cup on the putting green, the tee markers and the cup are moved daily or in some other regular interval.
The uniqueness of each hole on each course on every given day has in the past added at least some randomness to the play of each hole as the golfer only has approximate information each day on each given hole. Specifically, the score card and the sign introducing each hole give an average yardage for the hole. In addition, a hole layout may be provided that displays the hole but once again approximate the tee and pin locations which are subject to movement each day or at regular intervals to preserve the tee areas and putting greens.
Today's golfers desire more accurate information about each and every hole. In today's information age, these golfers want to know the exact location of the pin and the exact yardage to the pin. In addition, today's golfers plan trips in advance and often are desirous of accurate information about the courses they intend to play on the day they intend to play the course. Up to this point, such information has been unavailable.
Today's golfers are also very serious about their handicaps. As each golf course, and each hole thereon, is rated as to is difficulty, golfers and thus obviously the greens keepers want to be sure that the difficulty and ratings for a given course remain constant such that the particular day of play, and thus the specific location of all of the tees and pins on that given day, is in line with the course difficulty. Basically, the golfers and thus greens keeper want to be sure that regardless of the particular locations of the tees and pins on all of the holes, the course difficulty remains constant. The current practice of randomly moving the tees and pins is not consistent with such desires.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Objectives of the invention include providing a method and system for providing golfers with information on a golf course they intend or desire to play.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing golfers with specific details on every hole on the golf course they intend or desire to play.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing golfers with information on tee area and pin location on any given day, including the ability to provide such information for any specific day in the future.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing greens keepers with information on their courses.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing greens keepers with specific details on every hole on their golf courses.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing greens keepers with the ability to maintain the course difficulty while moving the tee areas and/or pins.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing greens keepers with the ability to maintain the course difficulty while moving the tee areas and/or pins by correlating the slopes of all of the holes such that the cumulation of all of the slopes continues to provide the same course difficulty although individual hole difficulty may rise and/or fall.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing greens keepers with exact positions to which to move the tee area and/or pin for each hole each day so as to protect the turf on the teeing area and around the cup on the putting green.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing greens keepers with exact positions to which to move the tee area and/or pin for each hole each day so as to protect the turf on the teeing area and around the cup on the putting green while maintaining the course difficulty by correlating the slopes of all of the holes such that the cumulation of all of the slopes continues to provide the same course difficulty although individual hole difficulty may rise and/or fall.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing greens keepers with the ability to accurately alter the course difficulty while moving the tee areas and/or pins.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing greens keepers with the ability to accurately alter the course difficulty while moving the tee areas and/or pins by correlating the slopes of all of the holes such that the cumulation of all of the slopes provides the desired course difficulty although individual hole difficulty may rise and/or fall.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing golf course designers with the ability to accurately define the course difficulty by indicating the necessary position for the tee areas and pins to achieve such difficulty.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing golf course designers with the ability to accurately define the course difficulty by indicating the necessary position for the tee areas and pins to achieve such difficulty by correlating the slopes of all of the holes such that the cumulation of all of the slopes provides the desired course difficulty although individual hole difficulty may rise and/or fall.
Another objective is to provide such a method and system for providing golf course designers and greens keeper the ability to accurately determine the effects of a tee area or pin adjustment, including the effect on the course difficulty.
An additional objective is to provide such a method and system which is of simple construction, which achieves the stated objectives in a simple, effective and inexpensive manner, and which solves problems and satisfies needs existing in the art.
These and other objectives and advantages of the invention are obtained by the method of altering tee and pin locations on a golf course and providing such locations
Callahan Joseph P.
Cohodas Howard A.
Callahan & Associates, Inc.
O'Neill Michael
Send & Sebolt
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