Golf ball putting game

Claim 1

A putting game characterized by proViding a challenging and interesting test of skill both to experienced and unexperienced players, and wherein the playing ball is adapted to travel a difficult to predict generally serpentine path upon being stroked, said game comprising a golf putter, a playing ball of oval, generally egg-shaped configuration adapted to travel an erratic path curving generally in the direction of the smaller end when stroked with the putter, and a playing course along which the oval playing ball is to be stroked during the play of the putting game, the playing course comprising a plurality of putting holes positioned adjacent one another and arranged in a series for being successively played, each putting hole comprising an elongate slab of a length and width sufficiently large to permit a person playing the putting game to walk thereon and having an undulating contoured upper playing surface over which the oval playing ball may travel during play of the game, each putting hole having means defining a teeing area adjacent one end thereof from which the oval playing ball may be initially stroked, cup means located adjacent the opposite end thereof at a distance from the teeing area and adapted for receiving the oval playing ball therein, and means extending along said undulating upper playing surface for substantially the entire length thereof and serving to delineate on said playing surface a pair of sideby-side visually distinguishable longitudinally extending scoring zones of different values, with such different valued scoring zones coupled with the erratic path of travel of the oval playing ball serving to enhance the challenge and test of skill of the game.