Yardage books have long been among a golf clubs best promotional tools. I assume you play the course you want to make a yardage book for often. Course management is the key to going low and now your tools just got better. Giving golfers the knowledge they need to be successful is essential for creating an incredible player experience, plus it makes your golf course. Gtc took the most common shapes of greens, fairways and bunkers and created stencils. Yardage books dont exist for my course, but the on course distance markers seem to be pretty accurate as best as i can tell. Golf digest may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as. This amazing course management system will help you diagram how you want to play each hole.
All the rrf yardage books files are in adobe pdf format. I think what ill do initially is go out on the course alone in the late evenings and walk a few holes at a time. On the front cover it says, a doityourself yardage book for the competitive golfer. Yardage maps course search find golf courses near you. Anyone make their own yardage books for tournaments. On past threads there was only some instruction on. This is a great feature that is not available in a traditional paper yardage book. Craftsman golf pu leather scorecard yardage book holder cover usa blackblue. Use your golf yardage book and stick to your game plan. Yardage books are vital for helping golfers understand the challenges a course presents, and how to play each hole. Ijga, dustin johnson golf school, david leadbetter academy, hank johnson academy and several others. Welcome to, an online provider of yardage books for courses that you play you may be here for a variety of reasons.
Use the print feature in the adobe reader to print out the yardage book. My caddie pro doityourself yardage books are used by professional, amateur, and junior golfers worldwide. This tour style has a large grid for accurate green diagrams measured in 5 yard increments. Ive laid out exactly how that process evolved over the years, and you can find out how to make a diy yardage book, in my previous posts i loved working on new yardage books in the off season, and got a big sense of satisfaction when i pulled a yardage book that i had made for a course prior to heading out, to play it for the first time in months. Provide your email below and well send you a digital copy of our 2015 catalog. Grid lines to record each objects distance from the hole. Our team at precise yardage books offer our customers unparalleled experience in professional and amateur golf. This sounded to me like a good thing and therefore i went about sourcing a yardage book for the course i am playing at the moment the oak royal golf course and country club.
When you watch golf on tv, the pros carry detailed pga tour yardage books in their pocket giving them golf course yardages and other important information. On past threads there was only some instruction on how to make one and i. These diy yardage books are used in top golf academies around the world like dustin johnson school, david leadbetter academy and. Not only were the products professional, and unbelievably well done, but their staff were a pleasure to work with, and our members love these yardage books. This is the style most pros and top amateurs use in their yardage books. Perfect for college teams, traveling tournament players, and players serious about improving their strategy and course management. How to make a golf course yardage book mark wilkinson. 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. Fairway leathers offers customized leather golf products for all golfers amateur to pro.
May 7, 2018 make a yardage book for your golf course with our how to make a yardage book tutorial. Now you can start mapping your next round with golf steadys track notes. 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. I use my yardage books to visualize the course beforehand, formulate a strategy, think about which clubs to use. Diy yardage book so, yesterday we had a little discussion about yardage books, why you have them, what info you keep, etc. Bench craft will create them for your golf course for free. Golf course yardage books lot pga west, riverside, tpc sawgrass, st. Ive decided that i really need a yardage book for the course that we are playing. The tutorials are now a complete online class, with a membersonly forum, templates, and more. Most golf yardage books are small enough to fit in the golfers pocket during a round of golf and are often kept in their golf bag as a souvenir. The yardage books are available in two sizes, foldable pocketsized and full page. Thing is, ive never used a yardage book, and am not sure what the most useful info would be. There is a local municipal course in my area that hosts an amateur tournament every july.
We use satellite images to show you everything you need to know. Do it yourself yardage booklets accurately sketch holes on golf course vedi altri. I was inspired by a few comments and decided to take a stab at making my own. Show your personality on the links with one of the yardage book covers, custom leather head covers, valuables pouches, and journal covers custom made for you by our expert leather craftsmen. Diy putting green best of tour greens backyard putting green s landscape. 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. How to make a golf yardage book based on the book by eric jones.
Draw a legend of symbols you must draw symbols to denote certain features of the course. The doityourself yardage book for the competitive golfer. Use the ruler function make sure you set to yards to measure distances from the back of the tee box to important points. Golf digest calls it the yardage book for the rest of us. Its been a long time coming, but my tutorial series on creating your own golf yardage book has been completely revamped. How to make a golf yardage book based on the book by eric jones and dick barry. Getting the exact yardage to everything on the golf course helps with club selection and confident decisions. Tour quality yardage books in the same template as pga tour golfers. The yardage book andor course guide maps out each hole and lists the distances from the tee and to the hole from various places. If the golf course has their tee markers in the correct location according to their scorecard then their tees will match up with. The yardage book app is gpsenabled, so distances to all course features greens, targets, bunkers, hazards, etc. I plan on making my own yardage books of local courses i play, etc. Lower section has a fairway description area for yardages back to tee.
The diy yardage book used by more amateurs, collegiate golfers, lpga and pga professionals than any other brand. Golf digest may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our affiliate partnerships with. These shapes represent nearly all fairways and greens. 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. The full page size has a single golf hole on a each sheet. Flipem, turnem, trace them and you get different angles and designs to work from. Hello guys so i wanted to help people out who want to make a yardage book for a course. To download your free bonus templates click the take this course button below your. 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. Golf brings you a yardage book from the real world. The size of each design is to scale with both our my caddie tour and my caddie pro diy yardage books.
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Yardage books should count as equipment, so i guess this is the right part of the site. The foldable pocketsized book will fit comfortably into your shorts or shirt pocket. Well, track notes from golf steady is about to change that. How to make professional golf yardage books pga tour style. Do it yourself yardage booklets diy yardage book order page. And, of course, golf gps units and golf gps apps for smartphones provide the same information, often in a way that is easier to understand for many golfers than the traditional. Fairway leathers customer leather products for on and off. Get hole yardage, distance markers, locate hazards and see course layouts. Ive heard about homemade versions, but also online software that makes them. Like many of you, my passion for golf is unlike any other hobby that ive previously had, and my way of keeping in tune with the game while im not on the course, is making yardage books for all the courses around me. Used on professional golf tours and by top golf schools and academies such as. Please visit 3 up golf to learn more about the tutorials.
You can measure the distances by pacing from markers on the course once you have. Guests enjoy them as a souvenir, competitive golfers find them helpful in shot selection decisions, and tournament directors love them for the way they display the beauty of their courses. To my amazement, when a played a new course last weekend, i had absolutely no hesitation and my fear was gone. Now you can figure out your game plan and know exactly where to place the ball and what club to use. Mar 17, 2017 explore sammy1putts board golf course yardage books on.
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Diy yardage book after playing some of my best rounds in league play the past few weeks by playing smart golf. 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. Do it yourself yardage booklets yardage and strategy. Jul 16, 2017 a yardage book is like a golfers diary, if you will. I would recommend fore better golf to any course who wants a premium product at a competitive price. I know that it is a little weird to have a website dedicated to making yardage books, but in all honestly, i geek out about. Yardage book golf yardage book, yardage book, golf diy. Do any of you guys have yardage books for your home course. Fore better golf worked out a deal we couldnt pass up. However, many upscale golf courses, and even some downscale courses, now provide video screens built into their golf carts that show onscreen what used to only be available through printed yardage books. And you can track your performance thru 4 rounds of golf. Get the best deals on golf yardage books when you shop the largest online selection at.