Patent ID: 7479073
Filing Date: 2009-01-20
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A method of playing a golf type game which simulates an actual golf game, which golf type game is played on at a golf practice facility comprising: a driving range area which driving range area has at least one target, and is divided into a grid system for determining the outcome of a golf shot, and a driving range bay for a player to take said golf shot, a handbook comprising an essentially opaque cover having both a target reference indicator, and a grid system which correlates to the target and grid system found on the driving range area, and an indicator of the player's present position; and a plurality of cards providing pictorial representations of actual or virtual golf holes to be held within said handbook; wherein said player plays the non-putting or chipping components of the game by: reviewing a first card from said plurality of cards to determine a strategy for playing a shot on the golf hole represented and to be played on said card to determine a target for the player's shot; inserting said card into said handbook so that said card is covered by said opaque cover, and moving said card so that said player's present position and target and/or target line are visible through said target reference indicator; making a golf shot from said bay, which shot is targeted towards said target; observing said shot to determine the outcome of said shot and determine the driving range grid coordinates of said outcome; translating the driving range grid coordinates of said outcome to said handbook cover grid; marking said card through said cover at the position of said handbook cover grid coordinates; opening said cover to view said card; reviewing said outcome on said card in order to determine a strategy for playing any additional shots on said hole; and repeating said method until the outcome of said player's shot is adjacent to, or on, a putting green or chipping area designated for said hole, on said card.