I made a strokesaver

[gaz d]

I made a book with all the holes in my course drawn out.
I then used google earth and was able to work out distance from the middle of each green to different markers such as trees,bunkers,poles and water.
it has helped me a lot as i can judge distance better and i am hitting more greens. i would highly recommend doing this to anyone. it only took me about 2 hours to do. Pictures to come.

[Dent]

Alot of people do this, but i feel it doesnt help me, i just play my course buy memory, ive played it soo much it comes natural, at my golf store you can buy books to enter in all that kind of info.

[Soup Fan]

Wow. I think I am going to try this for a few of the courses I play. Great idea.

God bless the age of the nerds.

[gaz d]

The reason i did it so quick is because my course was covered by google earth if i had not have been it would have taken way longer!

[gaz d]

Will photocopy a few of the pages and put them up later.

[Spectrums]

How did you measure the distances? Did you scale it to google earth?

[gaz d]

yeah,use the measure tool and put it in yards,

[Spectrums]

And then did you screenshot your distances?

[gaz d]

test them....?
yes i played a round hitting balls from the distances and pacing some out,the majority were right, others were off by 1 or 2 yards.

[gaz d]

Here is a photocopy of the 1st and 6th holes at Ballinascorney GC

[Soup Fan]

I was planning to do mine in Photoshop, which is proving easier in theory than practice.

[Soup Fan]

Ok. Here is the progress of my yardage card so far.

Hole according to Google Earth.


My early Photoshop rendering.


I need to add the yardages and some other details, most notably trees, which I am not sure how to render.

[Guest]

I made a few yardage books with Google Earth too!
What do you think?