Sporting game of Sokker Golph™

Abstract

A sporting game in which a new ball called a skokker ball is kicked from a starting point toward a smooth containing a buc for the purpose of sinking the skokker ball into the buc in as few as strikes as possible and, if the skokker ball is not sunk into the buc when it is first kicked, then it is struck with a player's foot one or more additional times until the skokker ball is sunk into the buc. The direction of travel of the skokker ball is to the right when a counterclockwise spin is applied to the skokker ball at a point of contact with the player's foot, to the left when a clockwise spin is applied to the skokker ball at the point of contact, and straight when a top spin is applied to skokker ball at the point of contact. The game is played on a course having N holes each of which has a starting point, a rough and a smooth with a buc located in it. A player must use one foot to kick the skokker ball from the starting point and when not on the smooth and the player's other foot when striking the skokker ball on the smooth.

1 . A sporting game, comprising: 
 (1) kicking off a skokker ball from a starting point for launching the skokker ball toward a smooth containing a buc for the purpose of sinking the skokker ball into the buc in as few as strikes of said skokker ball as possible; and    (2) if the skokker ball is not sunk into the buc in step (1), then striking the skokker ball with a player's foot one or more additional times until the skokker ball is sunk into the buc;    wherein the direction of travel of the skokker ball will be to the right when a counterclockwise spin is applied to the skokker ball at a point of contact with the player's foot, the direction of travel of the skokker ball will be to the left when a clockwise spin is applied to the skokker ball at the point of contact with the player's foot, and the direction of travel of the skokker ball will be straight when a top spin is applied to skokker ball at the point of contact with the player's foot.    
     
     
         2 . The sporting game of  claim 1 , further comprising: 
 (3) repeating steps (1) and (2) N minus 1 times for an N-buc game where N is any positive integer greater than 1.    
     
     
         3 . The sporting game of  claim 2 , wherein the game is played on a course having N defined holes, each of the holes having a unique starting point, a rough and a smooth with a unique buc located in it.  
     
     
         4 . The sporting game of  claim 3 , wherein the skokker ball has a diameter of approximately nine inches and each of the unique bucs has a diameter of approximately 18 inches.  
     
     
         5 . The sporting game of  claim 1 , wherein a player playing the sporting game must choose either the player's left foot or the player's right foot as a first foot, with the player's other foot then becoming a second foot; and 
 wherein the player must kick the skokker ball in step (1) with the player's first foot and the player can only strike the skokker ball in step (2) with the player's second foot when the skokker ball is on the smooth.    
     
     
         6 . The sporting game of  claim 3 , wherein a player playing the sporting game must choose either the player's left foot or the player's right foot as a first foot, with the player's other foot then becoming a second foot; and 
 wherein the player must kick the skokker ball in step (1) with the player's first foot and the player can only strike the skokker ball in step (2) with the player's second foot when the skokker ball is on the smooth.    
     
     
         7 . The sporting game of  claim 6 , wherein the player is allowed to alternate between the player's left and right foot as the player's foot for any given complete sequence of steps 1 and 2, but not during a single sequence of steps 1 and  2 .  
     
     
         8 . The sporting game of  claim 2 , wherein said sporting game is played by two or more players and a winner is declared at the end of step (3) by determining which player required the fewest strikes of the skokker ball.  
     
     
         9 . A Sokker Golph course, comprising: 
 N holes, where N is any positive integer of 1 or greater, each of said N holes having:    a starting point for launching a skokker ball;    a rough; and    a smooth with a buc located in it; said buc being a hole of approximately  15  inches in diameter in which the skokker ball can sink.