The Benson
The Benson, a light and durable indoor putting green and golf game.
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The Benson is an instant classic - a patent-pending indoor putter, putting aid, and parlor game. Toss it on the ground in your office for a mid-day stress reliever or keep it in your basement for fun with family and guests! Always be improving your putting game and be your best on the real course.
Product features
The Benson features the finest turf supported by a lightweight and flexible platform that is durable enough to place on nearly any surface.
Being that The Benson is omni-directional, shots can be taken from any angle, and on almost any surface.
Flexible and durable. Walk on it! Toss it!
Big enough for multiple balls on the 'dance floor', and in the hole. Small enough to fit under a desk, bed, or couch.
What if you could bring the Green
with you anywhere you go?
Help us bring The Benson to the world with Kickstarter
We’ve done a lot to get The Benson to this point. Built and tested multiple prototypes. Designed and honed optimum angles and dimensions. We've begun the patent process. We've developed a brand and a sound go-to-market strategy.
We need your help to fund bringing The Benson to the market, including initial manufacturing and promotion costs. We want to share The Benson with everyone. With you. With the World.
Kickstarter offers the best platform to connect with putters everywhere, golf enthusiasts and parlor gamers alike. By backing The Benson, you’ll be supporting the entrepreneurial spirit of young inventors, and you’ll be among the first to enjoy a Benson.
Want to learn more about our history and our Kickstarter Reward Tiers, and Risks and Challenges?
Coming soon: Benson Gaming Interactive
Mobile Applications
The Benson product will be released with a score-keeping app available on Apple and Android devices.
The app will be able to keep score for The Benson game or even a full game of traditional 9- or 18-hole golf.
Eventually, the app will support a full AR environment, where players can challenge their friends across the world to interactive AR games with a virtual Benson.
“I wouldn’t put my name on it if it wasn’t the best.”
A Word from Benson Himself
The Green is a sacred and serene land. A place we all can visit when the rough gets going.
But what if you could bring the Green with you anywhere you go?
That’s why I created The Benson. A simple and most enjoyable parlor putter for the home and office, suitable for any age, gender, occupation, or social status. On the Green, there is no structure but the competition of the game.
Every golfer is a competitor. While most of that is borne out of the competition each golfer has with their own scores, there is an unbridled joy in besting a fellow golfer.
May you be your best, and may your best be better than your rival’s.
I hope you enjoy The Benson.
Gameplay
It's more than a putting aid
It's a game
The Rules:
Many will use The Benson to improve putting skills, but we think it’s more fun to make it a social challenge. Luckily, The Benson is a multiplayer game with a set of rules.
Three (3) Benson Nightshorts-approved golf balls come with The Benson, as well as a professional golf towel (which is not necessary for gameplay, but one may break a sweat in the throes of competitive passion).
To see which player goes first, there is a simultaneous ‘Shoot-Off,’ where all participating players take a putt at once. You and your fellow players can choose how ties are handled (Rock-Paper-Scissors, Thumb War, another Shoot-Off, etc.). The winner gets to go first and may choose where to place The Benson and from where the putt must be taken.
Each player may take three (3) shots per hole. The player with the highest score in a hole takes ‘Honors’ and may choose the location of the next placement of The Benson and putting location.
A Hole-In-One is just that, a ‘Hole-In-One.’ Two golf balls in the hole is a ‘Sandbagger.’ The real challenge, and the game’s highest honor, is a ‘Benson’ – three balls in one hole from one player. It is possible, but very difficult. Legend has it that Benson Nightshorts scored the first “Benson” on the day the Second Cod War ended.
You and your fellow players may play any number of holes you wish, but a traditional game is done in nine (9) holes. And, in classic Benson Nightshorts style, creating your own “house rules” promises to bring guffaws aplenty. One example includes scoring one point for each “dance floor” shot and three points for each hole-in-one.
