Our team at precise yardage books offer our customers unparalleled experience in professional and amateur golf. 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. We use satellite images to show you everything you need to know.
How to make a golf course yardage book mark wilkinson. I assume you play the course you want to make a yardage book for often. This amazing course management system will help you diagram how you want to play each hole. Inside the front cover is a description of how to use the book along with common symbols and two example holes of what youll want to emulate. This is the style most pros and top amateurs use in their yardage books. Gtc took the most common shapes of greens, fairways and bunkers and created stencils. The diy yardage book used by more amateurs, collegiate golfers, lpga and pga professionals than any other brand.
In 2020 we began creating 3d course guides and yardage books. On past threads there was only some instruction on how to make one and i. On the front cover it says, a doityourself yardage book for the competitive golfer. Draw a legend of symbols you must draw symbols to denote certain features of the course. Provide your email below and well send you a digital copy of our 2015 catalog. Diy yardage book so, yesterday we had a little discussion about yardage books, why you have them, what info you keep, etc. Im assuming its distances from tee to layup or carry bunkers. Use your golf yardage book and stick to your game plan.
Golf brings you a yardage book from the real world. Brickley golf specializes in handcrafted leather golf scorecard holders, yardage book covers, and quality golf accessories. Course management is the key to going low and now your tools just got better. To download your free bonus templates click the take this course button below your. Anyone make their own yardage books for tournaments. Ive heard about homemade versions, but also online software that makes them. Gifts handmade leather golf scorecard golf gifts for men golf cards gift baskets for men sewing leather leather pattern cool diy. Get the best deals on golf yardage books when you shop the largest online selection at. How to make a golf yardage book based on the book by eric jones and dick barry. I was inspired by a few comments and decided to take a stab at making my own.
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A couple months before i entered for the first time. Thing is, ive never used a yardage book, and am not sure what the most useful info would be. Craftsman golf pu leather scorecard yardage book holder cover usa blackblue. Get hole yardage, distance markers, locate hazards and see course layouts. Fore better golf worked out a deal we couldnt pass up. The yardage book andor course guide maps out each hole and lists the distances from the tee and to the hole from various places. Yardage books should count as equipment, so i guess this is the right part of the site. Pro members save money on every round of golf they play with golflink. Yardage marker book the do it yourself yardage and strategy booklet for the competitive golfer.
Yardage books dont exist for my course, but the on course distance markers seem to be pretty accurate as best as i can tell. 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. Tour quality yardage books in the same template as pga tour golfers. I would recommend fore better golf to any course who wants a premium product at a competitive price. The tutorials are now a complete online class, with a membersonly forum, templates, and more. Our my caddie pro was recognized as a top new golf product by espn golf in 2017. Do it yourself yardage booklets accurately sketch holes on golf course vedi altri.
Grid lines to record each objects distance from the hole. 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. These diy yardage books are used in top golf academies around the world like dustin johnson school, david leadbetter academy and. You can measure the distances by pacing from markers on the course once you have. Thats why we created fairway leathers, to satisfy the golfers.
Bench craft will create them for your golf course for free. This is a great feature that is not available in a traditional paper yardage book. 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. Offering a golf yardage book is an often reminder to the player to come back to your golf course to play over and over again. Fairway leathers offers customized leather golf products for all golfers amateur to pro.
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. If the golf course has their tee markers in the correct location according to their scorecard then their tees will match up with. 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. Your a golf enthusiast looking for an edge to win your club championship or regional tournament. The foldable pocketsized book will fit comfortably into your shorts or shirt pocket. 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. May 7, 2018 make a yardage book for your golf course with our how to make a yardage book tutorial.
Flipem, turnem, trace them and you get different angles and designs to work from. How to make a golf yardage book based on the book by eric jones. The yardage book app is gpsenabled, so distances to all course features greens, targets, bunkers, hazards, etc. Do it yourself yardage booklets yardage and strategy. Golf digest may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our affiliate partnerships with. The doityourself yardage book for the competitive golfer. Diy yardage book after playing some of my best rounds in league play the past few weeks by playing smart golf. I plan on making my own yardage books of local courses i play, etc. I was thinking its probably a very important thing to have to get a leg up on the competition at the club.
Feb 18, 2012 a golf gps system can be distracting and give incorrect yardages. Hello guys so i wanted to help people out who want to make a yardage book for a course. Yardage books have long been among a golf clubs best promotional tools. The size of each design is to scale with both our my caddie tour and my caddie pro diy yardage books. 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. Now you can start mapping your next round with golf steadys track notes. Do any of you guys have yardage books for your home course. There is a local municipal course in my area that hosts an amateur tournament every july. Yardage maps course search find golf courses near you. Well, track notes from golf steady is about to change that. As it turns out, the course did not have a yardage book or course guide for me to purchase and therefore i thought why cant i make my own. A yardage book is like a golfers diary, if you will. May 17, 2018 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.
Yardage book golf yardage book, yardage book, golf diy. 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. These shapes represent nearly all fairways and greens. 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. Please visit 3 up golf to learn more about the tutorials. Using our diy yardage book you can plot how far you want to drive the ball. Giving golfers the knowledge they need to be successful is essential for creating an incredible player experience, plus it makes your golf course look professional. Getting the exact yardage to everything on the golf course helps with club selection and confident decisions. 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.
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. Perfect for college teams, traveling tournament players, and players serious about improving their strategy and course management. Are you wanting to make your own yardage book but feel your drawing skills arent up to par. Jan 26, 2016 how to make a golf yardage book based on the book by eric jones and dick barry. Lower section has a fairway description area for yardages back to tee. Golf digest may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as. Ive decided that i really need a yardage book for the course that we are playing. On past threads there was only some instruction on. 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. To my amazement, when a played a new course last weekend, i had absolutely no hesitation and my fear was gone.
Giving golfers the knowledge they need to be successful is essential for creating an incredible player experience, plus it makes your golf course. How to make a golf yardage book based on the book by eric. Use the ruler function make sure you set to yards to measure distances from the back of the tee box to important points. Do it yourself yardage booklets diy yardage book order page. Golf course yardage books lot pga west, riverside, tpc sawgrass, st. These diy yardage books are used in top golf academies around the world like. Mar 17, 2017 explore sammy1putts board golf course yardage books on. 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. No drawings or computer animated pictures only true to life images main features the yardage book from the real world.
I use my yardage books to visualize the course beforehand, formulate a strategy, think about which clubs to use. 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. All the rrf yardage books files are in adobe pdf format. Diy yardage book pack of 5 designed by pga tour professionals. Diy putting green best of tour greens backyard putting green s landscape. Fairway leathers customer leather products for on and off. Use the print feature in the adobe reader to print out the yardage book. 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. How to make professional golf yardage books pga tour style.
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. 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. Im working on a diy yardage book project over the winter. Following is a stepbystep guide to help you create a unique yardage book of your own. 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.
Now you can figure out your game plan and know exactly where to place the ball and what club to use. Golf digest calls it the yardage book for the rest of us. And you can track your performance thru 4 rounds of golf. The full page size has a single golf hole on a each sheet. This handy scorecard holder from callaway golf keeps your scorecard clean and dry on the course and features a flipopen design with dual elastic bands to hold scorecard in place, an external slash pocket ideal for. Its been a long time coming, but my tutorial series on creating your own golf yardage book has been completely revamped.
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