Remote Golf Tournament System with Virtual Course Replication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current golfing systems are inconvenient, as they are often limited by time of year, location, green fees, and timing, making it difficult for individuals to play or participate in tournaments with others, especially when considering business associates or friends, and popular courses have limited capacity.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for an interactive remote golf game that allows users to create and join virtual golf rounds and tournaments, enabling play with multiple remote users, using a processor to launch an application, verify login information, and communicate with a web database to manage game data and rules, allowing for flexible participation and customizable game settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users play golf at physical courses, then they experience authentic golf conditions and social interaction, but they face limitations in time, location, cost, and availability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the golf course experience through a simulated environment that replicates course layouts, holes, and playing conditions. Users can access these virtual courses through a computing device, eliminating the need to physically travel to actual courses while maintaining the core golf playing experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions the golf experience from the physical three-dimensional world to a digital virtual dimension. By rendering courses and players in a simulated environment accessible through computing devices, it adds a new dimension of accessibility where users can play from any location at any time without physical constraints.
2Reliability
If popular courses are used, then players enjoy well-maintained facilities and courses, but capacity is limited and scheduling is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual course system allows the same course design to be accessed by unlimited users simultaneously or sequentially. The digital course data can be instantiated multiple times across different devices and locations, eliminating the single-instance limitation of physical courses while maintaining consistent quality and conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-loads and stores course data, layouts, and conditions in a database, allowing courses to be ready for immediate play without requiring physical setup or maintenance during play sessions. Courses can be prepared in advance and accessed on-demand by any number of users.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional golf tournaments are organized, then competitive structure is established, but participant coordination and scheduling become complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a centralized server as an intermediary that manages tournament creation, player registration, scheduling, and coordination. This intermediary handles the complex logistics of tournament organization automatically, reducing the burden on users and simplifying the coordination process while enabling flexible tournament configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The tournament system allows dynamic configuration of tournament parameters such as number of players, course selection, time limits, and rules. Tournaments can be created, modified, and joined flexibly without fixed rigid structures, adapting to different user needs and preferences while maintaining organized competitive play.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for creating an interactive remote golf game can comprise a processor configured to launch an application on a client computer, receive account login information, communicate with a web database to verify login information, display dashboard information, receive information regarding existing and possible golf rounds, output information regarding currently playable rounds and tournaments, receive information from a user regarding a new golf round with a set of defined rules and options for play by multiple remote users, send data to the web database regarding new round and defined rules and options for additional players to access with other instances of the application.