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Communication, calculation, and record keeping method and apparatus for golf course
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Inventors: Moriarty, Stephen A.; Rathmanner, James C.; Van Brunt, Nicholas P.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Sager; Mark A.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Edgeworth; David B.
An apparatus to provide golf players calculation, communication and record keeping of golf game scores. In addition communication of information pertaining to weather, flow of play, course topology and layout, advertising, service needs, emergency medical and security, rules of play and personal messages are provided to the players throughout the golf course by the apparatus. The apparatus includes a group of mechanisms distributed throughout the golf course area of play for the purpose of transferring this information between the players and the apparatus interactively and in real time. In the preferred embodiment the mechanisms distributed around the course are statically located, use photoelectric means for their electrical power needs and transfer data by radio communication means to and from a computing mechanism. The apparatus includes a computing mechanism that performs calculation steps needed to determine the golf game scores and also manages the transfer and storage of the various communications. In addition it extracts and saves information pertaining to the use of the course and its services for course management to use in accounting, planning and course improvement tasks. The computing mechanism can include programs to detect bottlenecks in the flow of play and alert course managers of the bottlenecks. In one embodiment, "timestamp" data which includes time, date, and/or location data is appended to at least some messages passed between the golfer interface and the manager interface. Additional programs that determine corrective modifications to the flow of play can be included in the computing mechanism. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The invention is a communication, calculation, and record keeping apparatus for the game of golf.
The invention comprises remote terminals (known as the golfer's interface) located throughout the golf course playing area, a central computing device located in a common area, such as the golf course club house, and the computer program to control the components and the functions.
The components transfer information between the human golf players ("golfers") on the golf course and the central computing device.
The information transfer is one in real time.
The central manager accumulates stroke counts from the layers, calculates scores using and maintaining handicaps and course corrections and records scoring information.
Other communication with and between players on the course include but are not limited to weather information and warnings, course topology and layout, wind characteristics, advertising, service needs, emergency medical and security, rules of play, personal messages, communications of tournament scores and control of the flow of play are passed between the apparatus and the players throughout the course.
The apparatus is connected by a global network to similar apparatus at multiple other golf courses allowing any information thus dealt with to be available and used at any of these golf courses.
One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for communication, computing, and input of scores at a golf course, wherein the golf course has a plurality of golf holes, a plurality of remote terminals and a central computing device.
The method includes the steps of: a.
receiving, at a first one of the plurality of remote terminals, a golfer identification, which represents one or more golfers; b.
receiving, at the first remote terminal, input representative of a golf score; c.
communicating, from the first remote terminal to the central computing device, data representative of the golfer's identification and the golf score; and d.
recording to a storage medium, data representative of the golfer's identification, the golf score, and a value which identifies one of the plurality of golf holes
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