Golf game apparatus

Claim 2

A portable indoor-type golf game comprising, a generally horizontally arranged and planar game board, surrounded by upstanding rim boards to retain a prescribed golf ball on an upper playing surface portion of the game board, said game board further defining at least nine upwardly-opening and numbered holes, the area outside said holes and within said rim boards defining both fairway and putting areas; a hole-cover for each of said nine holes, eacH of the nine hole-covers including sufficient metal in their structure to be attracted by a magnet provided on a club, used by a player, each hole-cover further including one of the numbers one through nine, inclusive, on one side, and one of the numbers ten through eighteen, on the opposite side of each hole-cover, respectively, said hole-covers being so dimensioned so that when each is in place in its respectively numbered hole, regardless of which number is facing upwardly, the upper surface of each hole-cover will form a continuation of the playing surface of the game board; a relatively rigid, vertically oriented, panel fixed in position at a rear portion of said game board, a tee area adjacent a front portion of said game board, generally parallel to said rear panel and said playing surface, said tee area including means to receive tees, the vertically oriented panel further including a generally centrally located cup portion for receiving a stroked golf ball when hit by a player, said panel and cup being so positioned that when either one is struck by a ball hit by a player, the ball will tend to rebound toward the numbered holes; the playing surface is further configured by various raised and depressed areas constituting hazards, when the ball lands on, or adjacent to, said areas.

Claim 3

The device of claim 1, wherein said tee area is level and each hole has an aligned ball-retaining receptacle therebeneath.

Claim 4

The device of claim 1, wherein each hole-cover includes a central core of magnetically-attracted metal.

Claim 5

The device of claim 3, wherein a magnet is located in the end of a handle-portion of each club.

Claim 6

The device of claim 1, wherein a magnet is located in the end of a handle-portion of each club.

Claim 7

The device of claim 5, wherein each hole-cover includes a central core of magnetically-attracted metal.

Claim 8

A portable simulated indoor-type golf game apparatus comprising a horizontally elongated game board marginally surrounded by an enclosing frame having upper component rim portions rising at right angles above the plane of the top surface of said board and defining and providing an enclosed playing field for a prescribed golf ball, said playing field representing and serving as a fairway and embodying self-contained putting greens and being provided with at least nine upwardly opening holes into which said ball may enter, indicia means in the form of numerals, one of said numerals being associated with each of said holes so that each of said holes is differently numbered, a rigid upstanding vertical panel fixed at a rearward terminal end of said board, said panel providing a wholly unobstructed ball striking and rebounding backboard and the front facing surface of said panel being provided with an enlarged aperture therein capable of receiving said golf ball, an enlarged cup-shaped receptacle behind the aperture in the panel, said game board being provided at its forward end with ball teeing means extending transversely across the forward end and parallel to said panel, said teeing means having an upper planar surface to facilitate driving said ball therefrom into contact with said panel, a readily insertable plug fitted removably into each hole and which, when in its place, has an upper flat surface which is flush with the surrounding upper surface of said playing field, and wherein said plug includes a magnetically attracted construction and is capable of being manipulated by a manually usable lifting magnet incorporated into a golf club whereby said hole can be plugged and covered when not in play and uncovered when readied for play, said teeing means comprising progressively usable individual tee areas, indicia means in the form of numerals associated with said tee areas so that said tee areas are numbered consecutively, each tee area having at least one upwardly opening socket for accessible reception of an applicable and removable tee, having a peg portion which can be plugged and thus anchored in said socket and a simulated grass area extendinG transversely of the game board immediately inwardly of the tee areas.

Claim 9

A portable simulated indoor-type golf game apparatus comprising a horizontally elongated game board marginally surrounded by an enclosing frame having upper component rim portions rising at right angles above the plane of the top surface of said board and defining and providing an enclosed playing field for a prescribed golf ball, said playing field representing and serving as a fairway and embodying self-contained putting greens and being provided with at least nine upwardly opening holes into which said ball may enter, indicia means in the form of numerals, one of said numerals being associated with each of said holes so that each of said holes is differently numbered, a rigid upstanding vertical panel fixed at a rearward terminal end of said board, said panel providing a wholly unobstructed ball striking and rebounding backboard and the front facing surface of said panel being provided with an enlarged aperture therein capable of receiving said golf ball, an enlarged cup-shaped receptacle behind the aperture in the panel, said game board being provided at its forward end with ball teeing means extending transversely across the forward end and parallel to said panel, said teeing means having an upper planar surface to facilitate driving said ball therefrom into contact with said panel, a readily insertable plug fitted removably into each hole and which, when in its place, has an upper flat surface which is flush with the surrounding upper surface of said playing field, and wherein said plug includes a magnetically attracted construction and is capable of being manipulated by a manually usable lifting magnet incorporated into a golf club whereby said hole can be plugged and covered when not in play and uncovered when readied for play, said teeing means comprising progressively usable individual tee areas, indicia means in the form of numerals associated with said tee areas so that said tee areas are numbered consecutively, each tee area having at least one upwardly opening socket for accessible reception of an applicable and removable tee, having a peg portion which can be plugged and thus anchored in said socket and a simulated grass area extendinG transversely of the game board immediately inwardly of the tee areas.