Golf bracket card game

Abstract

A golf tournament bracket card game that may be played in conjunction with an actual golf tournament. The golf bracket card game may include playing cards with values calculated based upon historical tournament data. The golf tournament bracket card game may also include an additional an optional bonus card deck to provide additional playing excitement as well as a forecasting element using a sheet of integrity on which players may predict the outcome of elements of the games of the tournament. The golf tournament bracket card game may be realized in a physical or digital environment.

1 . A golf tournament bracket card game comprising:
 a plurality of golf tournament seed card decks corresponding to a plurality of golfers playing in a golf tournament;   a game mat representing a golf course having eighteen holes with a playing surface including a plurality of designated card positions to receive at least one playing card of the plurality of golf tournament round outcome cards; and   a sheet of integrity;
 wherein the cards of the plurality of golf tournament round outcome cards include printing on one side of the cards golf scoring outcomes based at least in part upon predetermined data; 
 wherein the sheet of integrity includes a golf tournament bracket corresponding to the golf tournament, including a plurality of elimination rounds and a championship round; 
 wherein the sheet of integrity includes positions for recording the results of the card game and also positions for predictive results of an actual companion golf tournament recorded by the players before the start of the card game, 
 wherein the results of the card game and predictive results are recorded on positions on the sheet of integrity and indicate a winner of the card game. 
   
     
     
         2 . The golf tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the predetermined data is based at least in part on historical data including bracket seed information corresponding to the golf tournament. 
     
     
         3 . The golf tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the predetermined data is based at least in part on random data. 
     
     
         4 . The golf tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the playing surface of the game mat is a representation of the playing surface of the golf tournament. 
     
     
         5 . The golf tournament bracket card game of  claim 4 , wherein the playing surface of the game mat includes at least one of golf course hole data and images of the golf course holes from the actual golf tournament golf course. 
     
     
         6 . The golf tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the designated card positions of the game mat correspond to the golf course of the golf tournament. 
     
     
         7 . The golf tournament bracket card game of  claim 1 , wherein the sheet of integrity includes:
 a plurality of positions for recording the number of matches accurately predicted for each round of the golf tournament;   a plurality of value multipliers for each round of the golf tournament;   a plurality of positions for recording the results of each round of the number of matches accurately predicted multiplied by the value multipliers; and   a position for recording a sum of the results to determine a winner of the card game.   
     
     
         8 . A golf tournament bracket card game comprising:
 a game mat, wherein the game mat includes a plurality of positions to store a plurality of playing cards corresponding to a single elimination match play format;   a plurality of card decks, wherein the plurality of the card decks corresponds to a plurality of outcomes in the rounds of the golf tournament and are stored on at least some of the plurality of positions on the game mat;   a sheet of integrity, wherein the sheet of integrity includes a bracket of the golf tournament, positions to record predictive winners of each round of the golf tournament made at the start of the card game, positions to record card game winners in each round of the golf tournament, positions to record multipliers, positions to total each round of the golf tournament, and the champion.   
     
     
         9 . The golf tournament bracket card game of  claim 8 , wherein the game mat is configured with a plurality of positions corresponding to the number of holes in a round of the golf tournament. 
     
     
         10 . The golf tournament bracket card game of  claim 8 , wherein the game mat is configured with a pair of card positions for each hole of an 18-hole golf round. 
     
     
         11 . The golf tournament bracket card game of  claim 8 , wherein the plurality of card decks includes printed scoring outcomes based at least in part on historical data corresponding to a golf tournament. 
     
     
         12 . The golf tournament bracket card game of  claim 8 , wherein the sheet of integrity includes positions to record the actual winners of the golf tournament and predictive winners pre-selected by players of the golf tournament bracket card game to determine the champion. 
     
     
         13 . A method of playing a golf tournament card game comprising:
 completing, by each game player, a sheet of integrity wherein each sheet of integrity includes a predictive winner of each round of the golf tournament as chosen by each game player;   selecting, by each game player, golfers in the golf tournament from a pool of golfers;   selecting, by each game player, respective game card decks corresponding to each golfer's tournament position or seed;   selecting, by each game player in turn, a card from each of their respective game card decks including a golf scoring outcome and placing the card on a game mat according to a predetermined number of selections;   determining, based on the game card selections, the winner of each match in each round of the golf tournament based on the scoring outcomes;   recording, by each game player, the results of each match on the sheet of integrity;   determining, based on the winners of each round and the predictive winners, the overall winner of the card game.   
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the selecting, by each game player, or participants in the golf tournament is done by a random selection device. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the scoring of each predictive winner is weighted for each round of the golf tournament. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the determining of the overall winner of the card game includes a tiebreaker. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the determining of the winner of each match in each round of the golf tournament based on the scoring outcomes includes at least one of historical golf tournament data, random data, and computer-generated data. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the determining of the overall winner of the game includes playing a sudden death match based on the winner of the card game golf tournament and the predictive winner of the golf tournament. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 18 , wherein the playing of the sudden death match includes using a pair of game card decks and playing a final match to determine the overall winner using a sudden death method including selecting cards from the game decks based at least in part on predetermined golf score outcomes. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 13 , further including recording, on pairs of positions, one for each player, on the game mat denoting holes one through eighteen, golf course hole outcomes based on game play, gold course information based on the actual golf course used in the tournament that includes at least one of hole number, length of hole, number of strokes, and an image of the hole.