Putting green including means for sequentially returning holed-out balls to peripherally spaced ball dispensers

Abstract

Abstract A continuous putting green surface having a cup, undulations, and surface texture similar to a golf course putting green, thereby, providing players with varied length putts in which the ball line-of-roll may envolve level, uphill, downhill, or sidehill travel or any combination thereof, either against, across, or with the grain of the putting surface or any grain combination thereof. Utilization of automatic ball-dispensing and ball return means eliminates player bending or stooping for balls both at the putting tees and at the cup. When the ball-dispensing means releases a ball upon the putting green, the ball return means is translated into ball-receiving position underneath the cup. A holed out ball will enter the ball return means and roll by gravity to the ball-dispensing means for subsequent reuse. This returned ball will initiate operation of a second balldispensing means to discharge a ball and cause the previously used ball return means to retract, and the ball return means associated with the second dispensing means to move into ballreceiving position underneath the cup. This sequence of operations will continue until balls are putted and holed out from the plurality of putting tee positions located on the putting green periphery.

Inventors

• 👤 Joseph A Gentiluomo

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