Your yardage book can very well be customized to best suit your personality. Needless to say, creating yardage books is as an activity on its own. Yardage marker yardage and strategy booklet yardage book. A yardage book is like a golfers diary, if you will. Golf yardage books 3 pack pga template, 2019 usga conforming, weatherproof cover. They included a sample and so ideas about how to make your book better. Using a yardage book helps you plan out your shots, instead of just hitting shots. When you make your own yardage book you can make a yardage book for any golf course. Get input from your golf professionals and other team members to ensure that they get a chance to provide feedback. Improve your golf course strategy and lower your score. Use it as a great standalone yardage booklet or use it with a gps or rangefinder as a full fledged strategy and tactics. It can cut down the learning curve of knowing the breaks when used in a proper manner. Use the ruler function make sure you set to yards to measure distances from the back of the tee box to important points. Using a yardage book will help you play faster and take less strokes.
Hello guys so i wanted to help people out who want to make a yardage book for a course. 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. How to make a golf course yardage book mark wilkinson. Have you ever wanted to create a golf yardage book for your home course. Most of the time i use a laser, but before i decided to buy one i used a strokesaver yardage book, plus a yardage matrix that i created when i had an anorak evening. As it turns out, the course did not have a yardage book or course guide for me to purchase and therefore i. For example, your yardage book could make use of dark green for the. How to make professional golf yardage books pga tour style. Every time i played with my uncle who is a scratch golfer i was in awe of his ability to score, not lose a ball, his ability to make the game. Record your personalized info for aiming points, landing areas, clubs to hit and slope of each green. 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.
Even if your home course has a yardage book youll find the yardage marker much more you can accurately diagram par threes, par fours and par fives. Learn how yo create your own pga type golf yardage books. Basically i listed every yardage in 10 yard increments from 70 to 250 yards, and worked out how far away i would be from the flag or green if i was 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 or 50. When you go through your yardage book library, and pull a wellworn, handmade yardage book out of your bag and place it into your back pocket, i hope you get the same satisfaction that i have over the years when using it to improve your golf game. 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. One of the clubs actually bought the rights to my book free jr.
Do it yourself yardage booklets yardage and strategy. Following is a stepbystep guide to help you create a unique yardage book of your own. Complete instructions for creating your very own yardage book just like the ones you see pga tour pros use on tv. How to make a diy yardage book golf course yardage books. I grew up with yardage books and made my own for the half dozen or so courses i played through high school. On past threads there was only some instruction on how to make one and i took on the task to learn how to.
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