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. The swilcan bridge and hell bunker are recognised across the globe, yet the greatest feature of the old course is that despite its grand status it remains a public golf course, open to all. No drawings or computer animated pictures only true to life images. One of the people behind its rise is mark long, president and founder of long yardage books. Draw a legend of symbols you must draw symbols to denote certain features of the course. Owner tom eubank has been creating the best graphics in the world for over 20 years.
Aside from his gutbusting stories, the pga tour caddie creates the yardage books. Why course mapping is critical for tourlevel success. Golf sign and design is the premier company providing quality golf course signs, 3d golf graphics for marketing needs, yardage guides, and golf course accessories. An illustrated map of the hole fills an entire page. The yardage, par and handicap information is prominently.
The illustrations show overhead views of each hole and denote yardages to and from hazards and landmarks on each hole. Your source for golf course yardage books in ventura. Yardage books compiled by players or their caddies offer details about a golf course that go far beyond the numbers youll find on a scorecard or a sprinkler head. Each page has two scale ruler with tick marks which is scaled to be used with the yardage.
Tee shot should favor the left side of the fairway avoiding bunkers on the right. The mobile planner is a gpsenabled planner designed for smartphones and tablets. Drag the green or yellow markers to measure yardage. How to make a golf yardage book based on the book by eric. Approach shot to the twotiered green sloping back to front should stay clear of the bunkers on the right. George lucas, and mark long both pioneers in the field of mapping out golf courses, began to enhance the yardage books that were then sold to caddies and. Jun 5, 2015 example of a golf course yardage book illustration.
Golf yardage books and golf yardage book holders for professional, collegiate, amateur, and junior golfers. Gps distance to greens, bunkers and hazards aerial view of each hole with zoom and pan. Mark long is something of a legend on the pga tour. Precise our team has traveled the world surveying golf courses with the most advanced 3d. Like many of you, my passion for golf is unlike any other hobby that ive previously had, and my way of keeping in tune with the game while im not on the course, is making yardage books for all the courses around me. Panther lake yardage book orange county national golf. Pukalanis 18 holes were designed by golf course architect bob baldock who designed more than 69 public and. Keeping golf uppermost in mind, with over 20 years experience and expertise in the trade of producing graphics and illustrations for yardage books, golf trade show brochures, email designs, and marketing booklets. When you watch golf on tv, the pros carry detailed pga tour yardage books in their pocket giving them golf course yardages and other important information. This map is marked with important measurements to hazards and landmarks including bunkers, trees, water features, and tee box locations. No tour player uses yardage books derived from satellite images or flyovers.
Most golf yardage books are small enough to fit in the golfers pocket during a round of golf and are often kept in their golf bag as a souvenir. As we continue to update all our courses to a digital format, we can only offer hand drawn yardage books for certain courses at this time. Crooked cat yardage book orange county national golf. Make your golf course look amazing by using our course mapping service. Locate golf courses, golf clubs and golf hotels with the interactive map.
The bluegolf app overlays a yardage book on top of a satellite image so you are looking at distances on the actual hole. Every hole on the golf course is featured on its own 2page spread. This amazing course management system will help you diagram how you want to play each hole. I know that it is a little weird to have a website dedicated to making yardage books, but in all honestly, i geek out about. Only skycaddie sends professional mappers to walk every golf course with.
Mapped courses golflogix putt break maps and gps tracking. This is a par 4 map created for a golf course by bench craft company. We designed the yardage book to give golf courses a unique yardage book and the golfers an easy to use tool. These yardage books are unlike any other yardage books you golfers have ever used. Voted one of the top 5 five new golf products of 2017 by espn golf, the my caddie pro is sure to lower your scores by helping you develop skills in course management. 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.
There are a number of ways to get a tee time on the old course. Or click on yardage charts to print paperbased charts to your exact specification. Get the benefits of a great yardage book and an excellent distance measuring device in one app. Now you can start mapping your next round with golf steadys track notes. Best golf scorecard and yardage book holders any golfer can tell you the agony of a soggy scorecard. Example of a golf course yardage book illustration. Use your golf yardage book and stick to your game plan. They are a valuable marketing piece for your golf course as well as a classic souvenir for players. Course tours are automatically available in the popular bluegolf yardage book app. Basic charts may assist a casual player, while the most advanced charts are designed to help professional golfers choose clubs and develop playing strategies on the course. Designed by alister mackenzie, the cypress point golf course opened in 1928. Pro secrets golf yardage books yardage book course list. We create high quality 3d flyovers and still graphics of golf courses.
Includes golf features, tree layer, native areas, and sf charts. The 2020 masters get all the masters information you need. View a greatlooking, birdseye view of the entire course. Golf sign and design golf signs, 3d golf yardage guides. This multitiered green requires distance control in order to have a makeable putt. We at golf club graphics are dedicated in providing high quality golf course graphics. Some courses offer yardage books, but campbell deduced that they. Enjoy an aerial view of each hole, gps distance, yardage book and more. 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. Wollongong golf club detailed maps and yardage charts. So, put your artists hat on and design your yardage book.
Pebble beach golf links detailed maps and yardage charts. But theres an opportunity in that agony, an opportunity to up your on course vibe and. Playbooks for golf irrigation mapping for golf courses. The app combines a great yardage book and an excellent distance measuring device in one app. Click on 2d, 3d or mobile planner to see the course layout in more detail. The 2d and 3d planners are fullfeatured planners designed for laptops and workstations. George lucas, and mark long both pioneers in the field of mapping out golf courses, began to enhance the yardage books that were then sold to caddies and professional golfers as they travelled from city to city. Golf brings you a yardage book from the real world. These pocket sized, hole by hole golf course guide books are completely customized with maps, yardage information, and green illustrations. Golden bear club keenes layout and map course database. Secondshot placement is the key to this and should be dependent upon the location. The pukalani country club is nestled at the 1,100 foot elevation level of world famous mount haleakala, an extinct volcano whose name in hawaiian means house of the rising sun and is appropriately reflected as the golf courses logo. Not only were the products professional, and unbelievably well done, but their staff were a pleasure to work with, and our members love these yardage books.
All i need to do is to map the course in person for yardages and slopes. Royal dornoch is spellbinding and many golfers from all over the world make the pilgrimage to this natural links at some point in their lives. Please find a list of golf courses pro secrets has on file. Best approach has been producing the finest yardage guides in the business since 1994. Golf digest calls it the yardage book for the rest of us. Golf course maps golf course mapping yardage books. The oldest and most iconic golf course in the world. All you have to do is open or download a file, print it out, do a little cutting and put in a couple of staples. Offering a golf yardage book is an often reminder to the player to come back to your golf course to play over and over again. The diy yardage book used by more amateurs, collegiate golfers, lpga and pga professionals than any other brand. Our team at precise yardage books offer our customers unparalleled experience in professional and amateur golf.
Welcome to royal dornoch, championship course, dornoch. My son was given a strackaline book by the uf coaches prior to a tournament at their course in gainesville and he. Designed by alister mackenzie, the cypress point golf course opened in. A golf gps system can be distracting and give incorrect yardages. We are a fully diversified golf course modeling and 3d visualization services company with worldwide experience of designing all type of golf courses. When you buy their book, you can download templates to make your own yardage book of any golf course in the world. How greenreading maps are changing the way people putt. We aim to give you the most useful golf course planners and visualization tools available today.
View an interactive course map and holebyhole layout. The app is gpsenabled so distances automatically update as you move around the course. Golf course mapping 3d golf 3d flyover golf yardage. A yardage book is a pamphlet or booklet, typically pocketsized, whose pages contain detailed illustrations of each hole on a golf course. Course tour 2020 masters masters golf, augusta masters.
We pioneered 3d graphics on yardage books and were first to put these graphics on golf course signs. Set up for easy use in communicating with staff and members. Its the timeless setting that makes royal dornoch such a pleasing place to play golf. I would recommend fore better golf to any course who wants a premium product at a competitive price. 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. The 18hole cypress point course at the cypress point club facility in pebble beach, california features 6,536 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The scorecard is based on the tee, pin and target positions shown on the map. Click a feature under yardage book to see where it is on the hole.
View distances to greens, targets, hazards, bunkers reach carry and more. Allowing golfers to play at their highest level by learning the essential skills necssary in golf course management. Follow your favorite player at for uptotheminute leaderboard, individual scores, highlights, player. Contains line drawings of each hole, with yardages to the green, hazards, and appropriate landmarks, all courtesy of our wonderful golf course architect, ron kern. How to make professional golf yardage books pga tour style. It wasnt until the 1970s that yardage books as they began to be called, caught on with the professional golfers of the day. How to read golf course layout yardage charts golfweek. The video below is the tutorial i made to help you guys. Fore better golf worked out a deal we couldnt pass up.
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