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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. Golfers use yardage books to develop a strategy for playing each hole, and. Before they let us walk the golf course, i might have been a little. My thinking process has changed drastically on how i play each hole. The yardage book app is gpsenabled, so distances to all course features greens, targets, bunkers, hazards, etc. Get hole yardage, distance markers, locate hazards and see course layouts. Dodoes any of you midhandicapers use a yardage book for the courses that you play. Get the best deals on golf yardage books when you shop the largest online selection at. The accuracy and thoroughness of every detail, for every hole, on any course is exceptional continue reading. This tour style has a large grid for accurate green diagrams measured in 5 yard increments.
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Webb simpson and his caddie paul tesori line up a shot on the first hole. Sometimes a yardage book is complimentary and included in the green fee. Lower section has a fairway description area for yardages back to tee. What does the yardage book say is the distance to that bunker up there on the right. I love using yardage books, if you keep up with them and make good notes it can really help your score. May 17, 2018 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.
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Gps distance to greens, bunkers and hazards aerial view of each hole with zoom and pan. It wasnt until the 1970s that yardage books as they began to be called, caught on with the professional golfers of the day. Golf score keeper book, golf club yardage book, golf yardage notepad, including blank lined pages for your notes after every round. The my caddie pro yardage book is currently being used on professional and amateur tours, by university golf teams and junior competitve golfers around the world. There was a thread on here a couple days ago where someone had posted some pics of the book they made. Obviously playing with a rangefinder will dramatically speed up pace of play and is a excellent golf distance finder but a yardage book can improve your game in many ways that a rangefinder device cannot.
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