Creating A yardage book

**Gebus** · March 3, 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.
Being the person I am, I really didn't think about it before suggesting it. I have seen what a yardage book should look like and have the range finder and other tools for the job.
I could use some help on actually making the book, my plans thus far are:
1) walk the course, hand draw every hole in a notebook with all the necessary yardages
2) hand draw the shape of the green (to put on the back of each hole with space for the player to write notes on how the hole breaks)
3)Once all the holes are done use Photoshop (which I am fairly capable with) to redraw all the holes and yardages and greens in proper sized Jpegs.
4) bring all the jpegs to the ups store (I get discounts because I am a student) to print and bind them.

This is easily a 15 hour job just on photoshop to make it all look nice (which is 10 more than I really wanted to spend on it)
I was wondering if there are any other software(or methods for that matter) for making a yardage book that is presentable enough to sell.

**Wet Doggg** · March 3, 2010

Don't you guys have scorecards that have a picture of the hole already on it? Find out who prints the score cards and ask if they will let you use their renderings. Also, how many books are you looking to get produced? Places like the local UPS or Kinkos will kill you on price. Find a local mom and pop small print shop. They will do better quality work, faster and much cheaper as well.

**DavidFehertysBike** · March 3, 2010

Im a graphic designer and i freelance from time to time as well. I also use local print shops when a client wants me to produce the product for them. I charge them an arm and a leg for me to to this, but the actual printing charges are cheaper than a chain. If youre making a book, youre probably going to have to get it binded and that can be a big charge. There is also an option of getting the book folded over and stapled, but that isnt going to look as sharp as a binded book would be.

**Gebus** · March 3, 2010

The golf course I am talking about is not a nice private course its a small public course. They have not printed new scorecards in like ten years so some of the pictures are a little out of date, as for the print shop I am at least going to make the "prototype" at the ups store and if the course really likes it we will have it done at another print shop.

**CT207** · March 3, 2010

Couldn't you go onto Bing or Google maps and capture the satellite images of the course holes there and then Photoshop them to your document??

Just tossing out a suggestion...... I really do know much about this type of computer stuff.

**DavidFehertysBike** · March 3, 2010

The golf course I am talking about is not a nice private course its a small public course. They have not printed new scorecards in like ten years so some of the pictures are a little out of date, as for the print shop I am at least going to make the "prototype" at the ups store and if the course really likes it we will have it done at another print shop.

That sounds like a good plan.

**walk18** · March 3, 2010

Before you do all this work, consider that gps is making yardage books obsolete. I know not everyone has them, but like any technology they are rapidly becoming cheaper and more accessible every year.

**kfowler** · March 3, 2010

Before you do all this work, consider that gps is making yardage books obsolete. I know not everyone has them, but like any technology they are rapidly becoming cheaper and more accessible every year.

Except for when the book has green slopes. No GPS has that yet that I've seen.

**walk18** · March 3, 2010

Except for when the book has green slopes. No GPS has that yet that I've seen.

I'll bet they do within 2 years max.

**Gebus** · March 3, 2010

I am not too worried about the book becoming obsolete, in Quebec technology seems to arrive ten years late, I've met scratch golfers that are amazed when the see a range finder. Anyways it's not really my problem at this point, my golf course wants it so now I have to go ahead and make it, I am just looking for suggestions to make it a little easier for me.

**jamo** · March 3, 2010

Couldn't you go onto Bing or Google maps and capture the satellite images of the course holes there and then Photoshop them to your document??

Definitely check out Google Maps or Google Earth so you can do an easier sketch of the shape of the fairway and greens. It would be much easier than trying to do it by just walking. If you REALLY wanted to, Google Earth has a ruler feature that you could use to get yardages, but you would probably have more accuracy doing it on the course, unless there are a lot of hills.

**WUTiger** · March 3, 2010

Couldn't you go onto Bing or Google maps and capture the satellite images of the course holes there and then Photoshop them to your document??

Also, does your course have the engineer's drawings and working sketches from when the course was built? Would be useful if you have a putting green "blow-up" in corner of each page.

Sounds like you're dealing with a small production run. High fixed costs to get is set up, and then materials and binding. I would go to a couple of small printshops and get an estimate on cost - plus - advice on designing your booklet efficiently to keep costs down. Also, could your people sell any advertisements in it to help defray printing costs? This could be more hassle than its worth, if the operation has no marketing capability. If you have limited press run, front-to-back color photocopying likely would be cheaper than the cost of making printing plates. You could have the shop use nice quality paper or cardstock, print it front-to-back with 12 pages on each side, and then fold, trim, and staple it for you. Give us an update on what happens.

**Boyder** · March 3, 2010

I know there are several companies on the web that specialize in taking info you provide and produce very nice yardage books and scorecards.
http://www.golfyardagebook.us/
http://www.greengrass.com

**DaSportsGuy** · March 4, 2010

I would just get on google maps or something and copy the greens into Adobe Illustrator and just trace around them with the Pen Tool. The Pen Tool makes tracing quick and easy if you know how to use it.

**Gebus** · March 4, 2010

Thanks for all the advice everybody this forum is great. Using google maps and the pen tool is going to save me a load of time, that's probably what I am going to do. For the printing as I said I am not going to worry about it, it isn't part of my task so I am just going to have the prototype made at the ups store and let the course worry about the rest.

Thanks again everybody.

**clubchamp** · March 4, 2010

I made a yardage guide for my senior project in high school. This was before google earth and even lasers although I did use a laser it wasn't one you could carry. I walked the course hand sketched every hole and took a landscaping program to crate the hole lay out. I spent about 25 hours on it and looked into printing/binding but it was very expensive. I ended up just giving to the golf course and they went to graphic designer for a final copy. The cost in the end was too much so nothing ever happened with it but it's nice when I go home I still use it a little. I'd say do it to the best of your ability and see how far the course will take it.

**lumpuckeroo** · October 28, 2014

3 up golf

**Patch** · October 28, 2014

This might be of some use. I built a short game practice area, with yardages using this. http://www.provisualizer.com/2dplanner.php

Some one on here posted the link a while back. I forget who it was. If it works, thank them .

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