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Golf course for practicing shot making and trouble shots

Golf course for practicing shot making and trouble shots description/claims

1. Technical Field

The present invention relates to a golf course for practicing shot making and trouble shots, and more particularly to a golf course that allows golf players including amateurs to intensively practice their weakest shots, shot-making according to each situation and trouble shots.

2. Related Art

Generally, existing golf courses, which are of the standard 18-hole course—or larger—not only occupy substantial amount of land but also require extensive investments. In addition, they have some difficulties in becoming popularized due to fastidious legal procedures, business approvals, various conditions for establishment and harmful environmental effects.

In other words, for a standard 18-hole golf course to be established, it is required of an area of 1,000,000 square meters with standard arrangements; structuring of par 3, par 4, and par 5; and the harmony with surrounding scenery as those are the basic requirements to the main layout for a golf course. Consequently, enormous investment is required, which, in turn, places burden on customers in the form of golf greens fee.

While the standard 18-hole golf courses generally are located in suburban areas, most customers have a tendency to frequent indoor driving ranges within the city to practice driving or putting or even install electronic golf putting partners at home.

Such driving ranges are only equipped with lanes where people drive at a net. Although there are more than 2,000 driving ranges—both indoor and outdoor—scattered nationwide, practices there compared to that on the green that is curved field location adaptive for putting remarkably lack realism. To illustrate, in the golf complex including the standard 18-hole or larger, it is frequently required for a player to exert high level skills in order to survive many obstacles such as a bunker, trees, and ponds. However, in the driving ranges, field-experience oriented practice facilities for coping with such situations are non-existent and, in general, a player goes into practice while taking part in a match game during regular rounds.

In order to overcome the problem, a golf course for bunker and putting practices has been suggested in Korean Laid Open Publication 2000-23978 (disclosed in May 6, 2000). However, according to the golf course disclosed in Korean Laid Open Publication 2000-23978, only bunker or putting practices are possible, and there still exist some limitations to practice various shot styles such as drive or iron shot at a tee box, fairway or rough.

A conventional structure for golf practice facility is described in Korea Patent No. 313,591 (disclosed by Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication in May 25, 1999). However, this invention only allowed the golfer to practice shots at a standstill on various greens so that the practice of various shots required on the actual course (e.g. on the bunker or on the rough) was rather difficult. Moreover, it was impossible for the golfer to practice an entire golf course such as the 9-hole course.

This applies not to amateur players but also to professional aspirants, junior, semi-professionals and tour professionals, and intensive shot practice areas were non-existent in the traditional driving ranges.

The present invention provides a golf course for practicing shot making and trouble shots where golf players including amateurs may intensively practice their weakest shots, shot-making according to each situation and trouble shots. The golf course of the present invention, the world's first of its kind, is aimed to produce a worldwide golf player as well as elevating the level of standard golf playing.

According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a golf course adaptive for practice of shot-making and trouble shot, the golf course comprising a tee box including a flat ground, an up-hill, a down-hill, a side up-hill and a side down-hill, wherein a play of a hole is started therein; a fairway positioned between the tee box and a green, the fairway being composed of short grass; a bunker including a cross bunker positioned in the fairway, a fairway bunker positioned near the fairway and a green side bunker positioned near the green; a rough positioned on both the right and left sides of the fairway, the rough being composed of grass longer than the grass of the fairway; and the green composed of short grass, wherein a play of the hole is ended therein.

The tee box may include a fairway section composed of short grass and an A rough section and a B section composed of grass longer than the grass of the fairway by a predetermined length. The grass in the fairway section maybe approximately 30 mm in length, the grass in the A rough section is approximately 55 to 60 mm in length and the B rough section is approximately 75 to 80 mm in length. Thus, a golfer may practice hitting different shots according to different heights of cutting grass or a plant as if they were faced with the real situation of being in the standard golf courses.

In one embodiment, a grid may be formed in the fairway so that a distance is measured with the naked eyes from the tee box. The grid may be a bunker line having a width of approximately 50 cm to 1 m.

In addition, an obstacle such as a tree may be positioned on the fairway so as to allow a golfer to hit a draw shot and a fade shot, wherein the obstacle being in a direct line between the tee box and the green.

In addition, the green side bunker may include a pot bunker in a shape of pot with narrow opening or a revetted bunker with a steep grassy rise.

In addition, the rough may include an A rough positioned near an outer area of the fairway, the A rough being composed of grass of which length is longer than the grass of the fairway and a B rough positioned near an outer area of the A rough, the B rough being composed of grass of which length is longer than the grass of the A rough. The grass of the A rough may be approximately 55 to 60 mm and the grass of the B rough may be approximately 75 to 80 mm.

In addition, the green may include a first green composed of natural grass and a second green composed of artificial grass. The second green may include a shallow green that is under 350 m2 in size. The second green may be formed with undulation and a part of the second green may have a narrow width of approximately 5 m.

According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a golf course adaptive for practice of shot-making and trouble shot, the golf course comprising multiple holes by defining a golf course in accordance with any one of claims 1 through 3 as a hole and combining N number of the golf courses, wherein players are given an option of playing 3 holes, 6 holes, or 9 holes, etc. according to a size of the golf course.

In one embodiment, the golf course may comprise 9 holes.

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