Patent ID: 8172702

Claim:
A handheld apparatus for displaying a graphic representation of a golf course, comprising: a location measuring device configured to obtain location information corresponding to a location of the handheld apparatus; a memory configured to store location information corresponding to each of a plurality of features of the golf course; a processing device connected to the location measuring device and the memory, and configured to retrieve a subset of the plurality of features of the golf course based on the measured location information generated by the location measuring device; and a display connected to the computing device and configured to display a graphic representation of the retrieved subset of the plurality of features of the golf course, wherein the subset of the plurality of features includes a virtual shot path, and the display is configured to display the virtual shot path in the graphic representation of the hole as a line extending from a first point of the hole to at least a second point of the hole, and at least one of the subset of the plurality of features intersects the virtual shot path, and the display is configured to display a distance from a point on the virtual shot path to at least a first intersection point of the at least one of the subset of the plurality of features.