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Heading: providing each golf ball with an identifying

Text: characteristic which makes it possible to determine from which tee the golf ball originated; (c) striking one of said golf balls at one of the plurality of golfing tees; (d) providing a plurality of target greens which are remotely located from the plurality of golfing tees, each target green having a front portion and a rear portion, providing each target green with a receptacle hole and sloping the surface of each target green in a manner to cause said golf ball, once it lands upon the target green, to roll into said receptacle hole, said sloped surface forming an asym- metrical concave shape, said sloped surface having said receptacle hole located at its lowest point, said sloped surface having a profile, as viewed from the side of said target green, which is greatest in elevation at its rearmost end located at the rear portion of the target green furthest from said golfing tees, said profile continuously sloping downward, to- ward the front portion of the target green nearest to said golfing tees, until arriving at said receptacle hole, said downward slope travelling substantially more than one-half the distance between the front and rear portions of the target green, said profile, as it continues forward from said receptacle hole, continuously sloping upward toward the front portion of the target green, said profile's forwardmost end located at the forward portion of the target green having an elevation that is significantly lower than that at its rearmost end, said upward slope travelling substantially less than one-half the Case: 18-2270 Document: 61 Page: 4 Filed: 05/11/2020 4 AGARWAL v. TOPGOLF INTERNATIONAL, INC. distance between the front and rear portions of the target green; (e) sensing said identifying characteristic of the golf ball, and identifying from which of said plurality of golfing tees the golf ball originated; and (f) indexing the score of the scoring device which is located at the golfing tee corresponding to the identifying characteristic of said golf ball. ’389 patent col. 9, ll. 23–68 (emphasis added to indicate disputed claim limitations).