ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,615, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to PGA TOUR Enterprises LLC (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

"Golf tournament management system" was invented by William Henry Schroder IV (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Jacqueline Shelly (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Barry Walker (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Kevin Kerr (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and Spencer Border (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf tournament management system may include a visualization system to generate graphical display data with respect to a golf course. A course variable specification unit may enable user specification of course variables including simulated sen...