Patent ID: 6517353
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
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, 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; 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, including accompanying shot-by-shot evaluative information respecting the play of the hole, whereby the user is informed 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.