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Best approach has been producing the finest yardage guides in the business since 1994. Yardage books are a recognised steady source of income, using our custom design procedures golfgraffix can produce very high quality and accurate yardage book artwork. Using it to verify what i thought was the proper slope has. The yardage book app is designed to be incredibly easy to use both on and off the course. Well, track notes from golf steady is about to change that. Pro members save money on every round of golf they play with golflink. Pro secrets golf yardage books commerical yardage books. Getting started programs i use you can use others to make the book. We provide golf hole graphics for hole by hole tour views on websites and yardage books with accurate measuring, as well as illustrations for periodicals and. Discussion in general golf talk started by pa jayhawk, apr 17, 2008. It is an invaluable tool though only if it is accurate and has. Yardage books have long been among a golf clubs best promotional tools. View our mobile friendly yardage book with maps and pictures of every golf hole.
Gtc took the most common shapes of greens, fairways and bunkers and created stencils. Pan to get a better idea of the overall layout and surrounding area. Typically, yardage book offer a little bit more information than the average scorecard. The benefits of using a yardage book are multifaceted. The bluegolf app overlays a yardage book on top of a satellite image so you are looking at distances on the. The use of golf laser range finders or gps devices are illegal on the pga tour and many other amateur and professional golf tournaments. Sports drawings, golf art, book projects, sports art, book design, architects, golf. Recently viewed courses are automatically bookmarked for fast, easy access. 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. How to make a golf course yardage book mark wilkinson. Using my new strackaline green reading book at my home course has been great. 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.
All pga tour, major championships and ryder cup venues. I love the idea of doing a photo collage for a banquet program cover thank. 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 diy yardage book golf course yardage books. Mapped courses golflogix putt break maps and gps tracking.
The pines golf club on behance a yardage book designed by the bench craft company graphic. He was able to use the book to shoot a combined 66 over 2 days on the harder 9 hole side. We use a robust, creative design software that is geared more. View key info about course database including course description, tee yardages, par and handicaps, scorecard, contact info, course tours, directions and more. The technical details of the program and the vast amount of. Get hole yardage, distance markers, locate hazards and see course layouts. Sand traps, greens, fairways, elevations and 150 and 250 yard markers shown below. Founder mike howell developed a reputation for excellence in graphics, service and printing that grew. Make your golf course look amazing by using our course mapping service. Since 1994, t2green course guides has provided a tradition of quality and accuracy in the development of golf yardage guides. The tutorials are now a complete online class, with a membersonly forum. Yardage maps course search find golf courses near you. Yardage book software basics we use a robust, creative design software that is geared more towards uxui designers.
Fore better golf worked out a deal we couldnt pass up. The flyby was produced by our custom golf design software and is based on a 25cm accurate survey of the resort. This is a flyby of the 18th hole at killeen castle, the home of he 2011 solheim cup. For golf clubs birdie book birdie book this software allows you to generate a 3d isometric view for each hole, generating excellent and high quality materials that can be used for the further graphic.
We at golf club graphics are dedicated in providing high quality golf course graphics. I dont blame course operators and general managers for trying to sell advertisements, as a way to offset the typically high price of having a company make a book for their own course. Being the person i am, i really didnt think about it. Hello guys so i wanted to help people out who want to make a yardage book for a course. 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. Voted one of the top 5 five new golf products of 2017 by.
Guide book, book design, golf clubs, maps, this book, bench. The flyby was produced by our custom golf design software and is based on a. Following is a stepbystep guide to help you create a unique yardage book of your own. Having the book was a huge help as he had never seen the course before. These books contain information about distances, hazards, and green complexes for every hole on the golf course. Golf course golf world map free interactive maps of.
I would recommend fore better golf to any course who wants a premium product at a competitive price. Head golf professional the honors course when we decided the honors course needed a yardage book to supply the competitors of the many championships we host, we had many options. Yardage marker yardage and strategy booklet yardage book. I can quickly pull it out, determine the slope and aim accordingly. Designer golf scorecards golf yardage books are available in three different design styles to accommodate different budgets and graphical preferences. The app homescreen automatically displays courses based on your current location.
Therefore i wanted to go in detail about how to make a yardage book to. Our repertoire spans some of the best clubs in canada and the us, including. But, as a competitive amateur golfer, i started creating my own yardage books for the courses that i was playing on a regular basis. 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.
Golf gps app roundup the best free apps for golfers. 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. Get the benefits of a great yardage book and an excellent distance measuring device in one app. On past threads there was only some instruction on how to make one and i took on the task to learn. 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. Golf course software helps clubs and courses with tee and.
To make a full page yardage book, just print each page, staple together and youre finished. Guests enjoy them as a souvenir, competitive golfers find them helpful in shot selection decisions, and tournament. Republic golf club, the detailed scorecard course database. 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. 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. Not only did your team get the book delivered in a couple of days, they called me to confirm the correct course and the interaction on the phone was outstanding. A yardage book is like a golfers diary, if you will. Every time i played with my uncle who is a scratch golfer i was in awe of his. Before you get to work, you ought to have an appropriate design space set out before you.
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