Pro secrets golf yardage books pga tour yardage books. Apr 22, 2016 players weigh in on how often they use their yardage book on a weekly basis. Golf yardage books and golf yardage book holders for professional, collegiate, amateur, and junior golfers. Players and caddies often use internet apps to fill out their my caddie pro prior to their practice or tournament rounds. Mark longs pga tour yardage books unlock secret keys to success. How yardage books help with approach shots into greens. The go to caddie yardage book my caddie pro, is designed for professional, collegiate and elite junior golfers and caddies who build game plans prior to tournament rounds.
Oct 10, 2019 former pga tour caddie mark long is the man responsible for providing players and caddies with thoroughly detailed yardage and greens books each week. Golf yardage books 3 pack pga template, 2019 usga conforming, weatherproof cover. Deltashop professional golf scorecard holder yardage book holder with. The easy way isbn 9788097236946, ean 9788097236946. For many years mark long has made the yardage books the caddies and. These books are made with card stock paper with heavy glossed card stock covers. 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. A glance at one of veteran pga tour caddie paul tesori s masters yardage books shows just how specialized the book can be. The book is a total of 40 pages to draw all 18 holes. This yardage book that pga tour pros use might be the most. A number of courses provide yardage books for their patrons. May 17, 2018 i bought my first yardage book cover which definitely helped but i still had an idea to make a players or pga tour style of yardage book that had distances to the center of the green, carry distances to specific points bunkers, widest part of fairway, hazards, trees, etc gave me an enlarged view of the green complex, and something that i could write on so that i could jot down.
Yardage books yardage book example you may have seen yardage books that some golf courses provide to give more detailed information about each hole, beyond just the raw yardages as marked on the scorecards, tee plates, sprinkler heads or other types of markers. We thoroughly examine every course by providing measurements to, and from any position. Golf caddies wonder how close is too close the new york. They are already out of date, with the recent changes to bd bunkering. The my caddie pro is designed with professional templates including. The use of golf laser range finders or gps devices are illegal on the pga tour and many other amateur and professional golf tournaments. Some courses have his books available for sale in the golf shop. The second part is the green view on a yardage book. A glance at one of veteran pga tour caddie paul tesoris masters yardage books shows just how specialized the book can be.
With a grid top page and a blank lower page, you can draw up your game plan any way you would like. 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. Our team at precise yardage books offer our customers unparalleled experience in professional and amateur golf. Players and caddies alike depend on these tools as they do everything they can to contend in tournaments week in and week out. Players and caddies depend on yardage and green contour books for. Less than a week after introducing the lexi thompson rule, or new decision 34310, the usga sent a signal that it has something else on its radar. Of all the books i have used around the world on all the tours the pro secrets book is the best by far continue reading. The maker of pga tour and major professional and amateur championship yardage books. Mark long is something of a legend on the pga tour. 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. I guess they were close, but to me the pro books didnt know the terrain like i did.
Fred funk and pga tour caddie dan padawer describe how valuable these books are during. Mark long yardage books the most demanded yardage books on. A look inside dustin johnsons pebble beach yardage book. Apr 17, 2014 by luke kerrdineen hilton head island, s. I believe most of them start with a book like that then make their own notes. Oct 11, 2015 exucsb player smith wins first professional title. Have you noticed that professional golfers are constantly walking around the course flipping open their yardage books.
When creating a yardage book we have one goal in mind. Credited for his detailed bibles of champion golf courses joe mccourt. Former pga tour caddie mark long is the man responsible for providing players and caddies with thoroughly detailed yardage and greens books each week. Mark longs pga tour yardage books unlock secret keys to. Apr 12, 2018 it wasnt until the 1970s that yardage books as they began to be called, caught on with the professional golfers of the day.
The purpose of a yardage book is quite simply, to provide a golfer or caddie the. It wasnt until the 1970s that yardage books as they began to be called, caught on with the professional golfers of the day. I bought his book for brown deer park home of gmo back in 01 when i played there. Frustrated by yardage books on the pga tour, professional caddie mark long designed his own. This book is made from heavy stock paper and measures 6. Innisbrook copperhead course detailed maps and yardage.
How to make a diy yardage book golf course yardage books. Yardage books are essential for tour caliber golfers and useful for ordinary players. This is a great feature that is not available in a traditional paper yardage book. These numbers represent the yardage to the front of the green, the. Mark longs yardage books hold the secret key to success on the pga tour.
Mark long yardage books the most demanded yardage books. This is where i keep all my free courses, paid courses, books, articles and downloads. Viewing the issue through the lens of rule 143, the usga expressed concern over, it seems, the green detail in professional yardage books. 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. They are intently reading, analyzing and then shoving them back into their back pockets. How to make professional golf yardage books pga tour style. The data paul tesori collects in his masters tournament yardage book goes beyond the distance from tee to green. Jackson and fellow augusta national caddie jerry beard adjusted by making their own yardage books in the early 1970s. Fuzzy bunkers quality leather golf scorecard holder yardage book cover plus free golf pencil and downloadable pdf stat tracker sheet 4. How to calculate yardage with a yardage book golfweek. Caddies push for a share of sponsorship money the new. Section two and three are caddie books pre wwii, and caddie books post wwii up to 1960.
Chris dimarco and amanda blumenherst explain how they use a yardage book for course management strategies. What is in the notebooks that professional golfers use on. Caddies will be paid, through the caddie association, to have a logo on items associated with their trade, like a hat, bag strap, towel, even yardage books. The my caddie pro diy yardage book is designed for professional, collegiate, junior, and other competitive golfers and caddies who build game plans by taking notes during their practice rounds. Fred funk and pga tour caddie dan padawer describe how. Recommended for all level golfers, the my caddie tour is as simple book that you can make as complex as you want for your game. The basic book you see is the official course yardage book which lays out the hole and the green across a few pages as required, showing the key terrain of the hole, obstacles, locations of sprinkler heads, and other useful points of reference f. 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. These books are made with card stock paper and protected by a glossed, water resistant, card stock cover. For a golfer that hits an excessively long drive, to a chip out. Custom yardage books golf course list precise yardgage books. My caddie pro allows you to draw detailed sketches of fairways, greens, and hazards, to help maximize your scoring potential and immediately impact your game. A look inside dustin johnsons pebble beach yardage book golf. 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.
Aug 06, 2008 caddie mark long discusses the creation of his yardage books, which are used by many on the pga tour. The yardage book app is gpsenabled, so distances to all course features greens, targets, bunkers, hazards, etc. The my caddie pro doityourself yardage book is used by professional, amateur, and junior golfers worldwide. May 01, 2017 yardage books in general have long been contentious on the pga tour, but the usga largely hasnt had an issue with the pocket course maps until now. About 15 years ago he went from giving yardages to his player as a caddie for nolan henke and fred funk to becoming the man. The usga might have a problem with pga tour yardage books. Fred funks longtime caddie goes to amazing lengths to provide.
Our yardage books are the professional s book of choice. Seeing the pin positions for the day will often change which side of the fairway i want my approach shot to come from. Mark long is the mind behind the numbers on the pga tour. 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. Strackaline did the books, and may have them available on their site. As a professional golfer one of the most important pieces of equipment i can take on the course is the yardage book. Us blind golfers association former president cowinners of the 2009 blind golfers association national championship harvey penick. Precise yardage books offers our customers unparalleled experience in professional and amateur competitive golf. The most recent versions of the yardage books are vertical flip books, allegedly more water resistant than the old ones. It will be interesting to see if the folks in far hills ultimately rule on the level of detail in mark longs and similar yardage books. Aside from his gutbusting stories, the pga tour caddie creates the yardage books that all the other pga tour caddies use. 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, and the ryder cup. 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.
Jun 26, 2019 why one caddie holds secret key to success on the pga tour. Custom yardage books golf course list precise yardgage. Golf caddie brings passion to map business thestreet. Go to caddie diy yardage book stencil and 5 doityourself yardage books. Some of the responses they give are quite different than you. The special package includes the books 1x, 3x, 10x, 30x pro yardage books depending non the package you will choose, discount vouchers as part of the yardage books. Professional golf is making plans to resume play even as coronavirus concerns linger, leaving players and caddies to figure out how close is close enough for a consultation.
Both our my caddie tour and our my caddie pro yardage books conform with the rules of golf. Nov 06, 2018 yardage and green contour books are a staple at pga tour events. Make offer 25 golf course yardage books lot pga west, riverside, tpc sawgrass, st. Pin sheets and yardage books golf instruction article. Go to caddies my caddie pro diy yardage books and custom holders are used by professional golfers and caddies on the pga european pga challenge champions webcom swingthought lpga legends symetra tour. We have been able to use our combined 50 years of caddying on the pga, web. Subscribe to my feed to get insights into the signature holes that the pga pros will be playing, and follow along this week as we will highlight the 2nd leg of the snake pit, tomorrow which features a. My main problem with them is the size of the font is so small, id need reading glasses.
Bibliography of collectible golf books about golf caddies. Some of the responses they give are quite different than you would think. Books on this page are those published from 1960 to present. Yardage and green contour books are a staple at pga tour events. We have provided yardage books for many of the top golf courses and clubs in the united states. George lucas, arnies old caddie, made them for most of the tour courses. 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. The green grid on the top has 100 38 boxes for up to 50 yards of green. Pga tour caddie paul tesori has detailed information in his augusta national yardage books that he accumulated in 10 years of caddying in. A yardage book and calm caddy will tell his player to relax off the tee, and let him know that a par is a great start to the dreaded snake pit.
Caddie mark long discusses the creation of his yardage books, which are used by many on the pga tour. Our yardage books are the professionals book of choice. These books are incredibly detailed when caddies get them, but austin johnson writes a few numbers at the top of every page. These books are incredibly detailed when caddies get them, but. The my caddie pro diy yardage book is designed for professional, collegiate, junior, and competitive golfers and caddies who build game plans by taking notes during their practice rounds. Provide your email below and well send you a digital copy of our 2015 catalog.
How much do pga tour players use their yardage books. Apr 02, 2019 go to caddies my caddie pro diy yardage books and custom holders are used by professional golfers and caddies on the pga european pga challenge champions webcom swingthought lpga legends symetra tour. Golf pro tips for using a yardage book golf channel. Caddie mark long discusses the creation of his yardage books, which are used. Why one caddie holds secret key to success on the pga tour. Pro secrets golf yardage books yardage book course list. This is where players and caddies get their yardage books. Its used by the worlds best instructors in top academies like the dustin johnson school, david leadbetter academy, gary gilchrist academy, hank johnson academy and many more. If youre big into research, you may have found pictures of a few pages of someones book. Yardage books should not be allowed to anyone playing on the pro, period. They are built to last and to reuse year after year. It is an invaluable tool though only if it is accurate and has all the information that i need. Use the print feature in the adobe reader to print out the yardage book. This is where players and caddies get their yardage.
But its not just regular yardage books, its also yardage books. Aside from his gutbusting stories, the pga tour caddie creates the yardage books that all. Apr, 20 a glance at one of veteran pga tour caddie paul tesoris masters yardage books shows just how specialized the book can be. Pga tour caddie paul tesori has detailed information in his augusta national yardage books that he accumulated in 10 years. Players weigh in on how often they use their yardage book on a weekly basis. Welcome to s bibliography of caddie books a collection of all the books written by, about, or for golf caddies and caddying. These numbers represent the yardage to the front of the green, the yardage to the center of the green, how far the pin is from the center of the green, and the yardage to the pin.
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