Patent ID: 7922586

Claim:
A system comprising: a server with an integrated real-time Golfer database, the server communicating with a network; a game hosting software module programmed on the server; a terrain database stored on the server and accessed by the game hosting software module; a time sequence and global positioning system (GPS) position linked message database stored on the server and accessed by the game hosting software module; a client computing device communicating with the server through the network and interacting with the Golfer database; and a portable computing device configured for communicating with each the server and the client computing device, the portable computing device interacting with the Golfer database when communicating with the server and providing a competitive match between a user and a competitor in which visual access to the competitor's in-progress golf round information from a first golf course is presented to the user during the user's in-progress golf round from a second golf course, wherein said first and second golf courses are distinct and different one from the other, the portable computing device configured to store a golf strategy in which at least one club and position of a golf shot in relation to a hole of the first golf course is selected by the user prior to the user addressing the golf ball with the selected at least one club at the hole of the first golf course during the competitive match, and in which said Golfer database includes at least data to provide a 3D view of at least a hole of each said first and second golf courses on said portable computing device, and further wherein the user selectively uses said at least one golf strategy during said competitive match to effect an outcome of the competitive match.