A golf game having at least one game board carrying a pictorial configuration of a multi-hole golf course including appropriate pictorial representations of a tee, a green with a boundary and distant from the tee, a hole on each green, a fairway generally extending between the tee and the green, and a plurality of hazards positioned adjacent to the fairway and to the green. At least one ball marker is provided to signify a golf ball of a player and adapted to be moved and positioned on the game board by a player after a golf shot. A plurality of dice, matrix type schedules, and distance/direction guages are used to determine where golf shots come to rest. A method for playing a golf game which includes selecting a golf club and manipulating simultaneously a six-sided die and a twelve-sided die in order to randomly generate a pair of numbers that are used to determine the distance and direction of a golf shot from a pair of matrix type schedules. The method for playing a golf game additionally comprises plotting each golf shot.

A golf board game comprises a game board (10) marked out into a plurality of golf holes (12). Each of the golf holes (12) comprises a tee area (14), a fairway area (16), an obstruction area (20) and a golf green area (18) having a pin and a plurality of distinct place markers (T1 to T6, FA1 to FA5, FB1 to F5, BB1 to BB5) on or about each golf hole (12). A bank of devices (66) comprising five discs (68) fortuitously determines the result of the tee stroke. Each golf hole (12) has at least a first card (76) having an indication of the place marker (T1 to T6) to which a golf ball travels as a result of the tee stroke. The first card (76) also has an indication as to the nature of the subsequent stroke or strokes to be played, and one or more further cards (76) correspond to the nature of the next stroke to be played. The devices (66) fortuitously determine the results of the or each subsequent stroke.

A new golf board game with a playing surface, said playing surface containing a plurality of golf links, each one of said golf links having a starting area, a fairway area, and a green area, said fairway areas and green areas also having proximate thereto certain strategically placed sand bunkers areas, and rough areas, and additionally one or more of said fairway areas also having at least one water hazard area proximate thereto, one regular die with the numbers one through six on the respective sides thereof, one lettered die with two letters "A" on random sides thereof, two letters "B" on random sides thereof, and a letter "C" and a letter "D" on the remaining two sides thereof, one putting die with random placement on two sides of the numeral "1", on two other sides the numeral "2", and on two other sides the numeral "3", between one to about 72 player marker piece(s) of any desired shape representing an individual player's golf ball, which pieces are moved around said playing surface during playing of the game, and a set of questions concerning the sport of golf, each said individual question being on individual question cards, there being between about 10 and about 700 of said question cards.

A sports board game to simulate golf and method of playing are provided. The game comprises a master set of outcomes divided into subsets, each subset representing a particular shot. Each subset has a plurality of outcomes and the game provides means for selecting one of the plurality of outcomes. The method of playing involves repeated selection of outcomes until a completed outcome is obtained.

A golf card game which utilizes one or more decks of playing cards with each deck being divided into four different suits and there being fourteen different numerical value of cards within each suit. Each deck of playing cards also includes a prescribed number of wild cards. There being separate from the playing cards golf hole representations with each representation to display a golf hole number, a par value for the golf hole number, wild card numbers and a numerical value determining a number of the playing cards that are to be dealt to each player when playing a golf hole number. There is also to be used a plurality of stroke card representations which are numerically sequentially arranged which start with the number 1 and proceed to at least number 5. Cards are to be then dealt to all players and melds to be produced by a player, and when a player has completely melded and the first player to produce all melds will be declared the winner of a given hand and assigned a numerical score. The numerical scores are added for all players for all golf holes which will then determine the winner of the game.