Fore better golf worked out a deal we couldnt pass up. Golf scorecard holders, leather yardage books, headcovers. Get input from your golf professionals and other team members to ensure that they get a chance to provide feedback. When you buy their book, you can download templates to make your own yardage book of any golf course in the world. A look inside dustin johnsons pebble beach yardage book golf. The diy yardage book used by more amateurs, collegiate golfers, lpga and pga professionals than any other brand. Golf digest calls it the yardage book for the rest of us. Really helped me develop my bail out on the approach.
All of this is optional however, but they make your yardage book look like the tour yardage books you see out on tour. 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. How to make a golf course yardage book mark wilkinson. Trim off the white area to the right of the dashed box. Chris dimarco explains how to use a yardage book to improve your game. We show you how to print your yardage book and use it on the course. We offer industry leading yardage book design, production and associated services to professional tours and clubs around the world.
Jul 16, 2017 a yardage book is like a golfers diary, if you will. No 1 golf is a market leader in producing professional yardage books. Complete instructions for creating your very own yardage book just like the ones you see pga tour pros use on tv. When you make your own yardage book you can make a yardage book for any golf course. Now you can start mapping your next round with golf steadys track notes. If you havent judged the different elevations or the firmnesssoftness of the greens on your home course in. Instant access to the latest news, videos and photos from around the world of golf. The tutorials are now a complete online class, with a membersonly forum, templates, and more.
Imagine being able to whip out your yardage book before a shot, pin point your landing area, dial in your exact yardages, and even nail down your club selection. How to make a yardage book book make a yardage book for any golf course. We used fore better golf to do our first ever yardage book and course maps. Some of the responses they give are quite different than you would think. It comes in two formats a generic one for doityourselfers and coursespecific yardage books done by. How to make a golf yardage book based on the book by eric. Anyone make their own yardage books for tournaments. 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 purpose of a yardage book is quite simply, to provide a golfer or caddie. Get the benefits of a great yardage book and an excellent distance measuring device gps in one app. Yardage books have long been among a golf clubs best promotional tools. How to make professional golf yardage books pga tour style. The diy yardage book makes a g reat golf gps or rangefinder companion booklet the doityourself yardage and strategy book for the competitive golfer its like have a tour caddy in your pocket. I grew up with yardage books and made my own for the half dozen or so courses i played through high school.
With your yardage book your ability to manage any golf course according to your perspective will become something that you do with ease. I hand made it took about 10 rounds and doing some homework. Follow along as you watch video tutorials outlining every step. Watching golf on tv, i always wondered what the pros were looking at. The exterior is wrapped in black leather while the interior features supple charcoal leather.
I can quickly pull it out, determine the slope and aim accordingly. I would recommend fore better golf to any course who wants a premium product at a competitive price. Basic charts may assist a casual player, while the most advanced charts are designed to help professional golfers choose clubs and develop playing strategies on the course. Eric jones and dick barry authored an excellent book that allows you to put together a plan to attack the golf course. Public links amateur championship, used to walk the course before a tournament and write down yardages from various key landmarks in a little book. On past threads there was only some instruction on. Feb 18, 2012 the use of golf laser range finders or gps devices are illegal on the pga tour and many other amateur and professional golf tournaments. Whether you merely want to learn how a yardage book is made or go further and want to make your own, this book will be an enjoyable and valuable read. The authors take complicated issues and make them easy to understand. Using it to verify what i thought was the proper slope has helped my overall green reading abilities. Gene andrews is known as the father of playing by yardage. Please visit 3 up golf to learn more about the tutorials. 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. Sep 20, 2011 his solution is track notes, a modified yardage book for the average golfer, he wrote.
This amazing course management system will help you diagram how you want to play each hole. The most valuable aspect in mine was labeling the contours of the green. 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. Nov 24, 2019 best golf scorecard and yardagebook holders. May 17, 2018 the benefits of using a yardage book are multifaceted. Need gifts for the office secret santa, birthday or valentines day, your yardage book will look great and make you stand out from all the other golfers.
You can use a yardage book to supplement the other ways to measure the distances between two points on the course gps devices, rangefinders and the traditional red, white and blue stakes or metal fairway disks that mark the 200, 150 and 100. The book helped with the following prior to playing. All products are hand crafted from scratch per your design. 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. May 30, 2019 hello guys so i wanted to help people out who want to make a yardage book for a course. Golf pro tips for using a yardage book golf channel skip to main content. A yardage book cover with classic style and a modern feel. This is a great feature that is not available in a traditional paper yardage book. The yardage book app is designed to be incredibly easy to use both on and off the course. Your yardage book can be personalized with your business logo, therefore making it one of a kind. We struggled for years to pull the trigger on this project, because it is generally very expensive.
I decided to make a yardage book for my home course. Ive heard about homemade versions, but also online software that makes them. Yardage books are essential for tour caliber golfers and useful for ordinary players. Waxed canvas zippered golf valuables field pouch in bourbon. Recently viewed courses are automatically bookmarked for fast, easy access. 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. But theres an opportunity in that agony, an opportunity to up your oncourse vibe and. Get hole yardage, distance markers, locate hazards and see course layouts. Just moments after johnson walked off the 18th green, i asked his caddie and brother austin if i could have a look at the yardage book that has. Online community forum to interact, share, and print off yardage books made by other members.
Apr 22, 2016 players weigh in on how often they use their yardage book on a weekly basis. The yardage book i have sorry, dont have a scanner is black and white drawing. When i got bit by the golf bug i was consuming as much content as possible ranging. The bluegolf app overlays a yardage book on top of a. Best approach has been producing the finest yardage guides in the business since 1994. How much do pga tour players use their yardage books. We use satellite images to show you everything you need to know. Following is a stepbystep guide to help you create a unique yardage book of your own.
Currently providing for the worlds best players on the lpga tour, ladies european tour and ladies european tour access series. I have seen what a yardage book should look like and have the range finder and. You can measure the distances by pacing from markers on the course once you have. 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. Use the ruler function make sure you set to yards to measure distances from the back of the tee box to important points. I have a home course id like to have 1, but im terrible at free hand drawing. Giving golfers the knowledge they need to be successful is essential for creating an incredible player experience, plus it makes your golf course.
A yardage book will tell you more than just distances. I thoroughly enjoyed reading how to make a yardage book. The benefits of using a yardage book are multifaceted. Our tutorials will be sent instantly to your inbox. The diy yardage book makes a g reat golf gps or rangefinder companion booklet the doityourself yardage and strategy book for the competitive golfer its like have a tour caddy in your pocket joe davidson danbury, ct. A good yardage book is as much about strategy as it is distance.
Making your own yardage book will give you the opportunity to customize the yardages and shots to your specific game. Pro members save money on every round of golf they play with golflink. Golf yardage books and golf yardage book holders for professional, collegiate, amateur, and junior golfers. Have you ever wished you had a yardage book you could whip it out of your back pocket before every shot, just like the pros, and figure out exactly how far you need to hit it, what target you should aim at, and what club you should use. Use it as a great standalone yardage booklet or use it with a gps or rangefinder as a full fledged strategy and tactics. To make a coherent, useful, and eyecatching yardage book, make sure you understand what the overall aesthetic, look, and feel of your yardage book will be before you start.
Basic charts may assist a casual player, while the most advanced charts are designed to help professional golfers choose clubs and develop playing. One of the clubs actually bought the rights to my book free jr. Golf digest may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our affiliate partnerships. 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.
On past threads there was only some instruction on how to make one and i. Its been a long time coming, but my tutorial series on creating your own golf yardage book has been completely revamped. We have provided yardage books for many of the top golf courses and clubs in the united states. Fairway leathers customer leather products for on and off. Aug 28, 2010 you could pace off yardages, but this would be 100x easier if you had a laser. A yardage book is like a golfer s diary, if you will. Being the person i am, i really didnt think about it before suggesting it. Were leading the evolution of online golf instruction with classes featuring everything from driving for distance to course strategy to mental skills to playing clutch, and we believe the university course format is the best way to help you learn faster and easier. This is the style most pros and top amateurs use in their yardage books.
To make a full page yardage book, just print each page, staple together and youre finished. You can prepare a yardage book for any golf course. Fairway leathers offers customized leather golf products for all golfers amateur to pro. Yardage book make your own pga tourstyle yardage book. Print out the foldable yardage book, using the print feature in the adobe reader. 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. Using my new strackaline green reading book at my home course has been great. You will already have a plan when any shot you make is less than what you envisioned, so you can minimize your scores on each hole. Does anyone offer a reasonable price to make a yardage book. Therefore i wanted to go in detail about how to make a yardage book to save others time. Any golfer can tell you the agony of a soggy scorecard.
How to read golf course layout yardage charts golfweek. I was thinking its probably a very important thing to have to get a leg up on the competition at the club. I assume you play the course you want to make a yardage book for often. The yardage book app is gpsenabled, so distances to all course features greens, targets, bunkers, hazards, etc.
Most people take their finished printing templates pdfs into the local print shop fedex, ups, etc 11. Do any of you guys have yardage books for your home course. Yardage books compiled by players or their caddies offer details about a golf course that go far beyond the numbers youll find on a scorecard or a sprinkler head. Golf pro tips for using a yardage book golf channel. Horween collection leather golf scorecard holder yardage book in dublin chestnut. There are clear instructions and tips to help you improve the presentation to make a very useful course planner. Lower section has a fairway description area for yardages back to tee. The front features an embroidered seamus golf sg flag logo. Hello guys so i wanted to help people out who want to make a yardage book for a course. When you make a yardage book, you are physically and mentally preparing yourself to play at your highest level. Printed in a6 format, high quality paper, we offer two different versions the premium with spiral binding and standard with clamps. Give your golfer a personalized your yardage book with your companys logo on the back cover. How to calculate yardage with a yardage book golfweek. The yardage book andor course guide maps out each hole and lists the distances from the tee and to the hole from various places.
Players and caddies often use internet apps to fill out their my caddie pro prior to their practice or tournament rounds. A number of courses provide yardage books for their patrons. It does take some time to make a yardage book, as opposed to just using your smart phone golf app. 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. Our team at precise yardage books offer our customers unparalleled experience in professional and amateur golf. Tour quality yardage books in the same template as pga tour golfers. 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. Chris dimarco and amanda blumenherst explain how they use a yardage book for course management strategies. The app homescreen automatically displays courses based on your current location. Yardage books should count as equipment, so i guess this is the right part of the site. A couple months before i entered for the first time. 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. On past threads there was only some instruction on how to make one and i took on the task to learn how to make one as a school project. 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.
There is a local municipal course in my area that hosts an amateur tournament every july. The my caddie pro diy yardage book is designed for professional, collegiate, junior, and competitive golfers and caddies who build game plans by taking notes during their practice rounds. A look inside dustin johnsons pebble beach yardage book. Custom yardage books golf course list precise yardgage books. The full page size has a single golf hole on a each sheet of printer paper. This tour style has a large grid for accurate green diagrams measured in 5 yard increments. Only because yardage books make life a whole lot simpler, and the game a.
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