We show you how to print your yardage book and use it on the course. The bluegolf app overlays a yardage book on top of a satellite image so you are looking at distances on the actual hole. New listing golf blue usa flag pu leather scorecard yardage book holder cover 7. Pro tips for each hole are provided by our head golf professional, blake rourick. We at golf club graphics are dedicated in providing high quality golf course graphics. Jul 16, 2017 a yardage book is like a golfers diary, if you will. Republic golf club, the republic gc san antonio, tx. These pocket sized, hole by hole golf course guide books are completely customized with maps, yardage information, and green illustrations. You can prepare a yardage book for any golf course. Playing golf using a cart means that you can carry a cooler, and in the cooler is everclear. Many golf courses from around the world use fore better golf as their preferred scorecard and yardage product vendor when looking for top quality products to represent their golf course.
Eric jones and dick barry authored an excellent book that allows you to put together a plan to attack the golf course. How to make a golf course yardage book mark wilkinson. Williston golf club 424 golf course road williston, vt 05495 802 8783747 designed and hosted by cybergolf cybergolf. The my caddie pro diy yardage book is designed for professional, collegiate, junior, and other competitive golfers and caddies who build game plans by taking notes during their practice rounds. Sand traps, greens, fairways, elevations and 150 and 250 yard markers shown below. Aside from his gutbusting stories, the pga tour caddie creates the yardage books that all. Our yardage books are the professionals book of choice. Follow along as you watch video tutorials outlining every step. We have been able to use our combined 50 years of caddying on the pga, and lpga tours as our guide to making a professional, quality yardage book that has everything the competitive golfer needs. We struggled for years to pull the trigger on this project, because it is generally very expensive. No golfer wants to stand on a tee or in the fairway and not know the distance to a hazard, the center. It comes in two formats a generic one for doityourselfers and coursespecific yardage books done by.
The fact is, good course management can be all the difference in taking your golf game to the next level and winning a tournament. Best approach has been producing the finest yardage guides in the business since 1994. The book helped with the following prior to playing. You can measure the distances by pacing from markers on the course once you have. The app is gpsenabled so distances automatically update as you move around the course. Option for customised yardage book covers for corporate golf days and signature events. The extra bit of room when it folds over the pencil allows me to keep the course book along with the card in my pocket in one easy to reach case. Its true that most pros will play their practice rounds and come away with a game plan on each hole. The go to caddie my caddie pro is a 40 page diy yardage book used on 9 professional tours and by collegiate and junior golfers around the world. Google earth can be a very helpful tool for capturing images of the golf course and importing them into inkscape and starting work on them. May 11, 20 hello guys so i wanted to help people out who want to make a yardage book for a course. Learn how to make professional golf yardage books pga tour players use. Now you have seen all of the information that can go into a yardage book.
The rrf yardage books provides a scale ruler that can be used to accurately measure the yardage from any two points on the golf holes diagram. Genuine leather leather golf book, add name, logo, team, club. The my caddie pro is designed with professional templates including. After consuming a whole bottle by the 6th hole, you deem it necessary to run naked across the 6th green.
And you can track your performance thru 4 rounds of golf. Every hole on the golf course is featured on its own 2page spread. There are clear instructions and tips to help you improve the presentation to make a very useful course planner. You can measure the distances by pacing from markers on. They are a valuable marketing piece for your golf course as well as a classic souvenir for players. View distances to greens, targets, hazards, bunkers reach carry and more. We used fore better golf to do our first ever yardage book and course maps. Yardage maps course search find golf courses near you. Here is a quick sample of one of the holes i did i dont think this was a finished page, but. Founder mike howell developed a reputation for excellence in graphics, service and printing that grew best approach into the worlds largest producer of yardage guides.
This amazing course management system will help you diagram how you want to play each hole. Keeping golf uppermost in mind, with over 20 years experience and expertise in the trade of producing graphics and illustrations for yardage books, golf trade show brochures, email designs, and marketing booklets. Hello guys so i wanted to help people out who want to make a yardage book for a course. Madison yardage markers, wi, golf courses, custom markers. Option to advertise golf club services on every page. Anyone else here try making their own yardage book. How to make a diy yardage book golf course yardage books. Alternative golf distance finder since range finders arnt allowed. Make your own golf course yardage book by matt canham, instructions each hole does not have to be drawn to scale, but needs to accurately indicate hazards, their distances and details of each green. The average golfer can learn a lot from these pages. How to make a yardage book play like the pros with this stepbystep guide to creating your own pga tourlike yardage guide. Instant access to the latest news, videos and photos from around the world of golf. Corporate golf days are becoming increasingly popular, providing another revenue stream for golf clubs. I grew up with yardage books and made my own for the half dozen or so courses i played through high school.
Pga tour certified yardage book cover scorecard size 4 x 7 14 designed to fit most professional tour yardage books with pencil holder. Olympic golf course a complete guide to our olympic golf course, reflecting the most current changes. Pro members save money on every round of golf they play with golflink. Warren golf course at notre dame detailed scorecard. His solution is track notes, a modified yardage book for the average golfer, he wrote. Yardage book contains line drawings of each hole, with yardages to the green, hazards, and appropriate landmarks, all courtesy of our wonderful golf course architect, ron kern. An illustrated map of the hole fills an entire page. This map is marked with important measurements to hazards and landmarks including bunkers, trees, water features. The center of each book shows a map of the entire golf course layout golf course hole maps. Our tutorials will be sent instantly to your inbox.
View key info about course database including course description, tee yardages, par and handicaps, scorecard, contact info, course tours, directions and more. How to use and make a yardage book your source for golf. View our mobile friendly yardage book with maps and pictures of every golf hole. Proper yardage markers in the required areas of the course will help with the pace of play and take some of the guess work out of playing a golf shot. Using our diy yardage book you can plot how far you want to drive the ball. On past threads there was only some instruction on how to make one and i took on the task to learn how to. The diy yardage book used by more amateurs, collegiate golfers, lpga and pga professionals than any other brand. The diy yardage book and practice system thats designed to give you improved course management. Use the ruler function make sure you set to yards to measure distances from the back of the tee box to important points. Save 6 to 10 strokes by understanding how to read a golf hole, recognize defensive features like bunkers, trees, water, mounds, swales, rough, and wind, identify opportunities and risks, determine landing areas and approach angles, and make better strategic decisions. A yardage book is a small booklet or pamphlet that contains illustrations, pictures, or diagrams of each hole on a golf course. How to make a yardage book by eric jones, dick barry. Make your golf course look amazing by using our course mapping service. Golfing guide gps yardage book application android.
Discussion in general golf talk started by pa jayhawk, apr 17, 2008. Golf course maps golf course mapping yardage books. Option to include a pro tip on how to play each hole. I have seen what a yardage book should look like and have the range finder and other tools for the job.
Most of the time these booklets will fit in the back of your pocket. I just finished mine for my home course and im really happy with how it turned out. Therefore i wanted to go in detail about how to make a yardage book to save others time. On par 4s and 5s, start your yardage book from the area where your drive normally lands.
Georges, royal montreal, oak hill, the toronto golf club, redtail, and many more. Warren golf course at notre dame warren gc at notre dame. As it turns out, the course did not have a yardage book or course guide for me to purchase and therefore i. As we continue to update all our courses to a digital format, we can only offer hand drawn yardage books for certain courses at this time.
One of the clubs actually bought the rights to my book free jr. Mar 03, 2010 the golf course i recently started working for likes the idea i had for making a yardage book for the course that can be sold at the pro shop. The use of golf laser range finders or gps devices are illegal on the pga tour and many other amateur and professional golf tournaments. A yardage book is like a golfers diary, if you will.
Yardage books iliac by bert lamar luxury handmade golf. Introducing track notes and tournament books by golfsteady, inc. Well, track notes from golf steady is about to change that. The current yardage book im working on shown in the. A couple months before i entered for the first time. Yardage book cover golf scorecard holder leather plus score sheets free sunfish. Pro secrets golf yardage books pga tour yardage books. Not only were the products professional, and unbelievably well done, but their staff were a pleasure to work. Im happy with my purchase and recommend it category. Following is a stepbystep guide to help you create a unique yardage book of your own. Aug 28, 2010 you could pace off yardages, but this would be 100x easier if you had a laser. Republic golf club, the detailed scorecard course database. The blank template to print out has a small arc to indicate the front of the green, with a fairway extension running down the page. Yardage books are usually are similar in size to a 3.
A look inside dustin johnsons pebble beach yardage book. Show the entire hole including tee boxes on par 3s. Crystal clear images with complete yardage information from each tee to hazards, traps and to green centre. I assume you play the course you want to make a yardage book for often. Since 1994, t2green course guides has provided a tradition of quality and accuracy in the development of golf yardage guides. The first page of the yardage book is an aerial view showing the entire golf course.
Voted one of the top 5 five new golf products of 2017 by espn golf, the my caddie pro is sure to lower your scores by helping you develop skills in course management. We thoroughly examine every course by providing measurements to, and from any position. Get hole yardage, distance markers, locate hazards and see course layouts. For the weekend golfer, a yardage book can be a source of information that can be used to jot down notes and club selection on a specific hole over time. Yardage book contains line drawings of each hole, with yardages to the green, hazards, and appropriate landmarks, all courtesy of our wonderful golf. Now you can start mapping your next round with golf steadys track notes. Being the person i am, i really didnt think about it before suggesting it. Fore better golf worked out a deal we couldnt pass up. Unfollow golf yardage books to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. When creating a yardage book we have one goal in mind. We are only one built the application with yardage book graphics 2. Every time i played with my uncle who is a scratch golfer i was in awe of. There is a local municipal course in my area that hosts an amateur tournament every july.
Pro secrets golf yardage books yardage book course list. Learn how to make a diy yardage book using our online video. Our team at precise yardage books offer our customers unparalleled experience in professional and amateur golf. The process of making your own yardage book can be fun and act as a chance to study your course management skills. You may be wondering why a pro may need all of this if theyve already seen and played the golf course. How to make professional golf yardage books pga tour style. Now you can figure out your game plan and know exactly where to place the ball and what club to use. With standout designs and great pricing, clubs choose us time and time again. Golf digest calls it the yardage book for the rest of us. Our repertoire spans some of the best clubs in canada and the us, including the national, st. Mark long is something of a legend on the pga tour. Golf info networks golfing guide gps yardage book application gives an ultimate golfing experience with yardage book graphics.
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