The yardage books are available in two sizes, foldable pocketsized and full page. Players weigh in on how often they use their yardage book on a weekly basis. They are a valuable marketing piece for your golf course as well as a classic souvenir for players. We have provided yardage books for many of the top golf courses and clubs in the united states.
Founder mike howell developed a reputation for excellence in graphics, service and printing that grew best approach into the worlds largest producer of yardage guides. Golf pro tips for using a yardage book golf channel. Mark longs pga tour yardage books unlock secret keys to success. No 1 golf is a market leader in producing professional yardage books. A number of courses provide yardage books for their patrons. The maker of pga tour and major professional and amateur championship yardage books. Used by professional golfers and caddies each week on the pga european tour since 1990. Best golf scorecard and yardagebook holders any golfer can tell you the agony of a soggy scorecard.
Custom yardage books golf course list precise yardgage. Just moments after johnson walked off the 18th green, i asked his caddie and brother austin if i could have a look at the yardage book that has. Our yardage books are the professionals book of choice. Mark longs yardage books hold the secret key to success on the pga tour. The exclusive provider of yardage books for the atp tour. Using my new strackaline green reading book at my home course has been great. 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. Were leading the evolution of online golf instruction with classes featuring everything from driving for distance to course strategy to mental skills to playing clutch, and we believe the university course format is the best way to help you learn faster. Our yardage books are designed to store all your necessities in one place, away from the elements. Mark long yardage books the most demanded yardage books on. How to use and make a yardage book your source for golf. Heres the cover of one of those yardage books for this weeks venue, harbour town golf links.
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I am a pinehurst member and i have strackaline green reading books for all 9 pinehurst courses and they are invaluable. Make offer 25 golf course yardage books lot pga west, riverside, tpc sawgrass, st. Follow along as you watch video tutorials outlining every step. Coobs golf custom shop collection of personalized yardage books, headcovers, leather goods and other golf accessories. For many years mark long has made the yardage books the caddies and players use on the pga tour as well as at the united states open championship. Pga tour certified yardage book cover scorecard size 4 x 7 14 designed to fit most professional tour yardage books with pencil holder. These books are far more detailed in information and less focused on the graphics beauty of the. They have extraordinary customer service, great pricing and always deliver the product on time. These books are made with card stock paper with heavy glossed card stock covers. Caddies and players at this weeks tour stop are leaning on the work of a 10yearold. This tour yardage book and scorecard cover is great for keeping yardage books, lesson notes or scorecards. I have always wanted to get my hands on a legitimate pga tour yardage book used in a real event. Fred funks longtime caddie goes to amazing lengths to provide accuracy. This tour style has a large grid for accurate green diagrams measured in 5 yard increments.
The yardage books, yardage cards to the curved glass frames as tee gifts or prizes. As you can imagine, deanes work was unsophisticated compared to tod. This book has a club yardage chart on the inside front cover, a legend and a stat tracker for up to 4 rounds in the back. Ben hulka helps players and fellow caddies each week on the pga tour by selling yardage and green contour books for each course. Gps distance to greens, bunkers and hazards aerial view of each hole with zoom and pan. Pro secrets golf yardage books pga tour yardage books. Jun 26, 2019 why one caddie holds secret key to success on the pga tour. How to make professional golf yardage books pga tour style. Many traditional private clubs as well as courses hosting major amateur and professional events require an old fashioned tour style book. Fred funks longtime caddie goes to amazing lengths to provide.
However, many upscale golf courses, and even some downscale courses, now provide video screens built into their golf carts that show onscreen what used to only be available through printed yardage books. When creating a yardage book we have one goal in mind. Each golf course management program comes with a my caddie pro doityourself yardage book. Apr 12, 2018 whats the history of yardage books in golf. Lower section has a fairway description area for yardages back to tee. Our tutorials will be sent instantly to your inbox. This cover has been a favorite on the pga tour for over 10 years. In tournaments that do not allow the use of gps rangefinders such as on the pga tour yardage books are still musthave items for golf pros and their caddies. Mark long yardage books the most demanded yardage books. Caddie mark long discusses the creation of his yardage books, which are used by many on the pga tour. I use fore better golf for all of their great products and service. Our program will give you stepbystep instructions on how to fill out your yardage book.
A look inside dustin johnsons pebble beach yardage book. Golf yardage books are designed to capture the beauty of your golf course from the golfers perspective by providing pertinent information. Brickley golf handcrafted yardage book covers and scorecard. In 1954, deane berman who was later appointed pga tour commissioner in 1974 began to map out and methodically measure important yardages on the golf courses he was playing, while still only a junior golfer. Jul 29, 2019 use bluegolf yardage book to tour every hole at thousands of courses across the us and the world while you play or while you watch the pros. Our my caddie pro was recognized as a top new golf product by espn golf in 2017. Eyeline golf tour yardage book cover golf equipment and. In addition, we offer several tips and insight on practice round preparation. It wasnt until the 1970s that yardage books as they began to be called, caught on with the professional golfers of the day.
Yardage books are essential for tour caliber golfers and useful for ordinary players. Best approach has been producing the finest yardage guides in the business since 1994. These pocket sized, hole by hole golf course guide books are completely customized with maps, yardage information, and green illustrations. Pga tour yardage books our yardage books are the professionals book of choice. This is where players and caddies get their yardage books. Using it to verify what i thought was the proper slope has helped my overall green reading abilities. Welcome to heinrichgolf yardage books international. Some of the responses they give are quite different than you. Aside from his gutbusting stories, the pga tour caddie creates the yardage books that all. In 2020 we began creating 3d course guides and yardage books.
We offer industry leading yardage book design, production and associated services to professional tours and clubs around the world. Were looking to do 500 events this year, said mike howell, founder and president of best approach publications, which has been making yardage books for a quartercentury for about 2,000 courses worldwide. Both our my caddie tour and our my caddie pro yardage books conform with the rules of golf. This book is made from heavy stock paper and measures 6. 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. The book is a total of 40 pages to draw all 18 holes. Spiral, top staple or side staple books all available. It is made of white faux leather material and has places to hold 2 pens and all of your other notes and cards. Apr 17, 2014 by luke kerrdineen hilton head island, s. Thats because the yardage books at panther creek country club, the illinois site of. These numbers represent the yardage to the front of the green, the. Apr 22, 2016 teryn schaefer presents the best social media posts from around the world of golf in trending on tour and after each days play brings you the biggest talking points in the takeaway. This is where players and caddies get their yardage. You can use a yardage book to supplement the other ways to measure the distances between two points on the course gps devices, rangefinders and the traditional red, white and blue stakes or metal fairway disks that mark the 200, 150 and 100.
We show you how to print your yardage book and use it on the course. I recommend them to any facility that really wants to shine from operations to exceptional gifts. Course management program go to caddie golf yardage books. Pga tour caddie paul tesori has detailed information in his augusta national yardage books that he accumulated in 10 years of caddying in. Nov 24, 2019 best golf scorecard and yardagebook holders any golfer can tell you the agony of a soggy scorecard. Golf yardage books and 3d yardage books tour style yardage books. This tour yardage book cover is great for keeping yardage books, lesson notes or scorecards. How to calculate yardage with a yardage book golfweek.
Currently providing for the worlds best players on the lpga tour, ladies european tour and ladies european tour access series. Jan 15, 2018 the advent of gps for golf courses has made yardage books something of a 20thcentury item. Designer golf scorecards golf yardage books are available in three different design styles to accommodate different budgets and graphical preferences. Chris dimarco and amanda blumenherst explain how they use a yardage book for course management strategies. Players and caddies alike depend on these tools as they do everything they can to contend in tournaments week in and week out.
And, of course, golf gps units and golf gps apps for smartphones provide the same information, often in a way that is easier to understand for many golfers than the traditional. These books are incredibly detailed when caddies get them, but austin johnson writes a few numbers at the top of every page. For many years he has made the yardage books the caddies and players use on the pga tour as well as at the united states open championship, the pga championship. The use of golf laser range finders or gps devices are illegal on the pga tour and many other amateur and professional golf tournaments.
This cover has been a favorite on the pga tour for over. They are built to last and to reuse year after year. Parkland golf and country club coral springs, fl pelican gc largo, fl pelican sound gc estero, fl quail valley golf club vero beach, fl seminole gc juno beach, fl sugar mill country club new smyrna beach, fl southern hills plantation golf club brooksville, fl verandah golf club old orange course ft. But theres an opportunity in that agony, an opportunity to up your oncourse vibe and.
This is a great feature that is not available in a traditional paper yardage book. The yardage book app is gpsenabled, so distances to all course features greens, targets, bunkers, hazards, etc. This is the style most pros and top amateurs use in their yardage books. Yardage books iliac by bert lamar luxury handmade golf. I am in the process of ordering one for my club here in connecticut the country club of farmington. Companies that make golf course yardage books acknowledge that demand for their products has waned, so they have gotten creative. Mark longs pga tour yardage books unlock secret keys to. I would love to see how they mark their books and plan their attack on the course. I can quickly pull it out, determine the slope and aim accordingly. These books are far more detailed in information and less focused on the graphics beauty of the course. The foldable pocketsized book will fit comfortably into your shorts or shirt pocket. A look inside dustin johnsons pebble beach yardage book golf. This is where i keep all my free courses, paid courses, books, articles and downloads. Mark long is something of a legend on the pga tour.