Online community forum to interact, share, and print off yardage books made by other members. How to make a golf yardage book based on the book by eric. 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 center of each book shows a map of the entire golf course layout golf course hole maps. You can measure the distances by pacing from markers on the course once you have. Thats why we created premade templates for you that you can. To make a full page yardage book, just print each page, staple together and youre finished.
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Designed by alister mackenzie, the cypress point golf course opened in. Owner tom eubank has been creating the best graphics in the world for over 20 years. A couple months before i entered for the first time. 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. We are a fully diversified golf course modeling and 3d visualization services company with worldwide experience of designing all type of golf courses. Free yardage book template downloads thank you for picking up my book. Golf digest may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our affiliate partnerships. Creating a yardage book that is easy to understand and appealing to the eye is not a simple design task. 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. Yardage maps course search find golf courses near you. Create a golf course yardage book for any golf course by. Enjoy an aerial view of each hole, gps distance, yardage book and more. More useful than your home courses yardage book even if your home course has a yardage book youll find the yardagemarker much more you can accurately diagram par threes, par fours and par fives.
When you buy their book, you can download templates to make your own yardage book of any golf course in the world. The illustrations show overhead views of each hole and denote yardages to and from hazards and landmarks on each hole. Following is a stepbystep guide to help you create a unique yardage book of your own. Mapped courses golflogix putt break maps and gps tracking. 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. We have provided yardage books for many of the top golf courses and clubs in the united states. The benefits of using a yardage book are multifaceted. Record your personalized info for aiming points, landing areas, clubs to hit and slope of each green. It comes in two formats a generic one for doityourselfers and course. How to make professional golf yardage books pga tour style. Interactive golf course marketing for the digital age our goal is to offer golf courses a product range that fits seamlessly with the courses marketing strategy and where possible to be cost neutral by providing regular revenue streams. Create a yardage book with our guide and free templates. These pocket sized, hole by hole golf course guide books are completely customized with maps, yardage.
Our team at precise yardage books offer our customers unparalleled experience in professional and amateur golf. If you havent judged the different elevations or the firmnesssoftness of the greens on your home course in a yardage. This amazing course management system will help you diagram how you want to play each hole. The book helped with the following prior to playing. This tour style has a large grid for accurate green diagrams measured in 5 yard increments. Use the ruler function make sure you set to yards to measure distances from the back of the tee box to important points. View an interactive course map and holebyhole layout. I assume you play the course you want to make a yardage book for often.
Trim off the white area to the right of the dashed box. Overhead view golf yardage book interactive golf tour 3d oblique view golf yardage book or overhead view golf yardage book designer golf scorecards provides the golf industrys only hd hole graphics for yardage books, website and other marketing collateral. Provide your email below and well send you a digital copy of our 2015 catalog. Now you can start mapping your next round with golf steadys track notes. A yardage book will save you strokes by mitigating mishits or poorly executed shots, and it will help you become. Therefore i wanted to go in detail about how to make a yardage book to save others time. Pro secrets golf iphone app golf yardage books golf. Giving golfers the knowledge they need to be successful is essential for creating an incredible player experience, plus it makes your golf course. Golf sign and design golf signs, 3d golf yardage guides. On past threads there was only some instruction on how to make one and i took on the task to learn how to. The tutorials are now a complete online class, with a membersonly forum, templates, and more. A close up view of the green and depth measurements are included.
Its been a long time coming, but my tutorial series on creating your own golf yardage book has been completely revamped. 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. A look inside dustin johnsons pebble beach yardage book. Eric jones and dick barry authored an excellent book that allows you to put together a plan to attack the golf course. A yardage book is a pamphlet or booklet, typically pocketsized, whose pages contain detailed illustrations of each hole on a golf course. Golf yardage books and golf yardage book holders for professional, collegiate, amateur, and junior golfers. Instant access to the latest news, videos and photos from around the world of golf.
Yardage marker yardage and strategy booklet yardage book. Golf course mapping 3d golf 3d flyover golf yardage. 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. When you make your own yardage book you can make a yardage book for any golf course. I have seen what a yardage book should look like and have the range finder and. Print out the foldable yardage book, using the print feature in the adobe reader.
Bluegolfs innovative suite of free course services enables you to enhance the golf experience for your golfers while increasing promotion of your facility. 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. Add innovative services to your website, provide a yardage book app for every round and promote your facility on. 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. 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.
A yardage book is like a golfers diary, if you will. 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. This is the style most pros and top amateurs use in their yardage books. We create high quality 3d flyovers and still graphics of golf courses. To get the layout of each hole in your yardage book drawn, you need to create a birds eye. To download your free bonus templates click the take this course button below your templates will be in your stu. Best approach has been producing the finest yardage guides in the business since 1994. Golf sign and design is the premier company providing quality golf course signs, 3d golf graphics for marketing needs, yardage guides, and golf course accessories. There is a local municipal course in my area that hosts an amateur tournament every july. 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. A yardage book is like a golfer s diary, if you will. Designed by alister mackenzie, the cypress point golf course opened in 1928. How to read golf course layout yardage charts golfweek. Lower section has a fairway description area for yardages back to tee.
How to make a yardage book play like the pros with this stepbystep guide to creating your own pga tourlike yardage guide. The next best is the diagram of each green from an official yardage book that the course has commissioned to sell to the public. 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. This is a great feature that is not available in a traditional paper yardage book. The 18hole cypress point course at the cypress point club facility in pebble beach, california features 6,536 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. Tour quality yardage books in the same template as pga tour golfers. Golf digest calls it the yardage book for the rest of us. The yardage, par and handicap information is prominently displayed. 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. The benefits include a detailed map of the course that will provide you with information to have a strategy for every hole and every shot. The use of golf laser range finders or gps devices are illegal on the pga tour and many other amateur and professional golf tournaments. Custom yardage books golf course list precise yardgage. The full page size has a single golf hole on a each sheet of printer paper. The diy yardage book used by more amateurs, collegiate golfers, lpga and pga professionals than any other brand.
The first page of the yardage book is an aerial view showing the entire golf course. How to make a golf course yardage book mark wilkinson. Applebrook golf club layout and map course database. The yardage book app is gpsenabled, so distances to all course features greens, targets, bunkers, hazards, etc. This depiction of the green will not provide as much information as the architects drawing, but it is good enough for the purposes of preparing your own pocket guide.
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