Creating A yardage book

[bubble]

yardage 2,0 was a great site for this. if anyone knows of an equivalent ?

 

http://www.bastok.fr/yardage/bin/

you snap shoot picture of holes on google.

 

the the device enable to position tees, flags and stuff then drag distances from this points.

it doe'snt seem to work anymore the upload of images gives an error.

there are still past book made though.

 

 

[DrvFrShow]

The problem is that tournaments don't allow digital devices like cell phones. Some allow rangefinders. The higher up you go, you'll need a yardage book. LPGA & PGA, you need the yardage book - and unlike our goat tracks, those courses have them.

But making one looks like a lot of work, but with the right software: Google Earth, and Adobe Photoshop, it can be done. 

I've found that trying to see my phone's screen in broad sunlight can be quite difficult even though I have an app that has the yardages for my courses via GPS. 

 

[bubble]

the site I posted above was really easy and worked for french courses. I can't believe this is the only guy doing this. 

somehow the guy got the algorythme of google earth in his drawing material. everything was calculated automatic. you just place the tee mark and a flag in the middle of the green and the get any distance to and from those marks

so if you pulled a line from the tees it would give you every 10 yard mark etc. same from the green centers.

 

If you search the course in the region 34, then click massane and look for the one i've done you can see how this is great for tee to green strategy.

[Golfingdad]

I started putting together a PGA Tour style yardage book for my brother's CC and thought I'd share how I've been doing it for anybody that that was ever interested in considering something similar.  Here are first drafts of a couple of holes and I'll explain below what I did:

So far all of the work has been done sitting at my computer, upon which I am fortunate enough to have a copy of Autocad 2016.  Here's my process so far:

1. Make a PDF of the hole from Google Maps and import to Autocad.
2. Trace all of the applicable linework.
3. Use bluegolf.com (which is google maps but with an easy to use measuring tool) to get all of my distances.

For now, that's pretty much it.  Step 4 will be to measure and mark the features that are not discernible on google maps; ridges and slopes on greens, big mounds or grass bunkers, etc,  This will have to be done at the course and will take some time (since I don't even live near the course) but it's OK, because I find this kind of nerdy stuff to be a lot of fun.

If I can put together a nice full book, I will try and make some extra copies for my brother and maybe other club members, that is, if the "publishing" part isn't too difficult.  I may also try my home course too next.