Finally, The Perfect Combination of Horseshoes and Golf

That’s right, golf and horseshoes. How can it go wrong? It might just be the best backyard drinking game since lawn jarts (the old school dangerous ones of course).

The invention is called “ringer golf” and is disclosed in a patent application that published this week as US Pub. No. 20100090406. The application explains:

A game piece is struck by a golf club, and is propelled through the air in order to target a vertical pole in the ground similar to the action in the game of horseshoes. The game piece consists of a spherical object simulating a golf ball having a pair of arms. The game, while providing a novel experience sought by many persons, also tends to aid players in properly striking a golf ball in the game of golf. If the spherical object which can be an actual golf ball is properly struck at its center without a club induced slice, the game piece will turn over and over in an orderly fashion without wobbling from side-to-side. If it is not properly struck, it will wobble in its flight through the air which indicates that the player has not hit the spherical object properly.

As stupid as it sounds, I know most golfers would probably have fun smacking these around the backyard.

Dave Dawsey   – Monitoring Golf Swing Training Inventions