Golf game assembly and a method of playing a golf game on a board

Abstract

A golf game assembly includes a game board representing a single hole of a golf course showing a tee, a fairway, a green, and hazards. A set of drive or stroke cards are provided for positioning on the board, each card representing possible drives or strokes performed with a specific golf club, and each having a first indication of a starting point and a plurality of second indications representing a specific drive or stroke of a specific length and direction from the starting point. A mechanism randomly generates an indication from among the plurality of second indications, and displays the randomly generated indication representing a player's drive or stroke from the starting point, and one or more transfer indicators for transferring to the board a drive or stroke indicated on a specific drive or stroke card positioned on the board and determined by the randomly generated indication.

1 . A golf game assembly, comprising: 
 a) a plane game board representing a single hole of a golf course showing a tee, a fairway, a green and one or more hazards, such as one or more bunkers and/or one or more water hazards,    b) a set of drive or stroke cards, preferably transparent or semi-transparent drive or stroke cards, to be positioned individually on said plane game board, each card representing possible drives or strokes performed with a specific golf club or iron and having a first indication of a starting point and a plurality of second indications, each indication among said plurality of second indications representing a specific drive or stroke of a specific length and direction from said starting point, said second indications being located around a centre at a distance from said starting point, each indication among said plurality of second indications corresponding to a specific likelihood of occurrence, and the indication or indications among said second plurality of indications corresponding to the highest likelihood of occurrence being located closest to said centre, whereas the indication or indications among said second plurality of indications corresponding to the lowest likelihood of occurrence being located farthest from said centre,    c) a generator means for randomly generating an indication among said plurality of second indications according to a non-even probability distribution or non-even distribution of likelihood of occurrence and for displaying said randomly generated indication representing a player's drive or stroke from said starting point, and    d) one or more transfer indicators for transferring to said game board a drive or stroke indicated on a specific drive or stroke card positioned on said plane game board and determined by said randomly generated indication determined by said generator means.    
   
   
       2 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of plane game boards, each plane game board of said plurality representing a specific hole of a golf course.  
   
   
       3 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 2 , said plurality of game boards being 9, 18, 27, 36 or any other number and said second plurality of game boards representing a complete golf course.  
   
   
       4 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 1 , said plane game board further showing a semi-rough and a rough.  
   
   
       5 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 1 , said green including a specific signature identifying the play according to a specific set of rules.  
   
   
       6 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 1 , said green including at least two separate sections, the one section including the hole of the green and having a first green indication corresponding to a high likelihood of putting as the majority of said second indications generated randomly by said generator means representing a one hole put and the other section having a second green indication indicating a lower likelihood of putting in one stroke as the minority of said second indications represent a one hole putt.  
   
   
       7 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 1 , said generator means comprising two or more dice, each of said dice having the integers  1 - 6  and said plurality of second indications comprising the sum of integers produced by said dice.  
   
   
       8 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 1 , said generator means comprising an electronic dice generator including an electronic circuitry and a display for displaying a sum of integers corresponding to the sum of integers represented by two or more dice.  
   
   
       9 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 1 , said generator means comprising a die having more than six faces.  
   
   
       10 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 1 , said plurality of second indications of each of said transparent drive or stroke cards having the lowest integer positioned close to said first indication and having its largest integer positioned at the longest distance from said first indication and further having the integers corresponding to the integers of highest likelihood of being generated by said generator means positioned around the centre between said lowest integer indication and said highest integer indication.  
   
   
       11 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 1 , said transfer indicators comprising a pencil and each of said transparent drive or stroke cards having a plurality of apertures corresponding to said second indications for allowing said transfer of said drive or stroke indicated on said specific drive or stroke card positioned on said game board to be performed by producing an indication by means of one of said pencils through a respective aperture of said specific drive or stroke.  
   
   
       12 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 1 , said plane game board being made from paper or cardboard material and having a printing repellent surface and having dimensions corresponding to the DIN A3 format.  
   
   
       13 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 12 , said set of transparent drive and stroke cards being made from a transparent plastic foil material, such as a PVC, PE or PP foil and having dimensions between 5 cm×8 cm and 12 cm×30 cm.  
   
   
       14 . The golf game assembly according to  claim 13 , said set of transparent drive or stroke cards including a total of 6-14 cards, including 3 or more golf club representing cards and 8 or more iron representing cards.  
   
   
       15 . A method of playing a golf game on a board comprising the steps of: 
 i) providing a golf game assembly, including: 
 a) a plane game board representing a single hole of a golf course showing a tee, a fairway, a green and one or more hazards, such as one or more bunkers and/or one or more water hazards,  
 b) a set of drive or stroke cards, preferably transparent or semi-transparent drive or stroke cards, to be positioned individually on said plane game board, each card representing possible drives or strokes performed with a specific golf club or iron and having a first indication of a starting point and a plurality of second indications, each indication among said plurality of second indications representing a specific drive or stroke of a specific length and direction from said starting point, said second indications being located around a centre at a distance from said starting point, each indication among said plurality of second indications corresponding to a specific likelihood of occurrence, and the indication or indications among said second plurality of indications corresponding to the highest likelihood of occurrence being located closest to said centre, whereas the indication or indications among said second plurality of indications corresponding to the lowest likelihood of occurrence being located farthest from said centre,  
 c) a generator means for randomly generating an indication among said plurality of second indications according to a non-even probability distribution or non-even distribution of likelihood of occurrence and for displaying said randomly generated indication representing a player's drive or stroke from said starting point, and  
 d) one or more transfer indicators for transferring to said game board a drive or stroke indicated on a specific drive or stroke card positioned on said plane game board and determined by said randomly generated indication determined by said generator means,  
   ii) positioning said plane game board on a supporting surface such as a table,    iii) selecting a specific drive or stroke card among said set of drive or stroke cards and positioning said selected drive or stroke card on said plane game board,    iv) generating an indication among said plurality of second indications by means of said generator means, and    v) transferring the drive or stroke indicated on said selected specific drive or stroke card positioned on said plane game board and determined by said randomly generated indication by means of said one or more transfer indicators.    
   
   
       16 . The method according to  claim 15 , comprising repeating the steps iii-v for playing said hole to the end.  
   
   
       17 . The method according to  claim 15 , said method further comprising playing rules corresponding to a real golf play on a real golf course.