Golf board game

Claim 1

Apparatus for playing a board game based on golf and comprising, in combination, a board, a chart representing distances allied to different golf clubs, a distance and direction indicator, counters, markers representative of golf balls, and parts representative of arbitrary features of a hole on a golf course, one part of said board being devoted to a blank whose outline of a hole of a golf course, and of the remainder of said board being devoted to a grid comprising rows and columns of cavities below the level of the plane of the board and spaced from said grid a target delineated by several concentric circles about a central cavity which is below the plane of the board and is aligned with the central ones of said columns, said rows and columns being referenced in conformity, respectively, with said chart, and with an arcuate scale on said indicator, said indicator including a pivotal pointer movable over said scale and integral with a stem graduated in terms of distances over the range of distances on said chart and to a scale appropriate to the length of said blank, the game being played by disposing within said outline at selected positions selected ones of said feature-representing parts, locating said indicator at a point on said golf hole from which a stroke is to be played with the pivot of said pointer over said point, said pointer in the zero position, and said stem extending in the desired direction of said stroke, selecting a golf club, flipping a counter from the area of said target into a cavity in said grid, shifting said pointer to indicate on said arcuate scale the direction indicated by the grid column which includes the grid cavity occupied by said flipped counter, reading off from said chart the distance determined by the grid row which includes the grid cavity occupied by said flipped counter in association with the selected golf club, applying said determined distance to said stem, and locating a marker at the point so reached, this sequence being repeated as often as necessary to get the marker from the tee to the putting green, whereafter the marker is transferred to a corresponding part of said target and flipped into said central cavity.