Tarheel Yardage Book
Fellow Tarheel Tour player, Ben Case, and I produced our first Yardage Book for this week’s event at Rocky River GC. Here are links to a few sample images:
They’re modeled after the books you get at PGA Tour events. This is very much unlike the typical “prettified” yardage book normally sold at courses. This book is black and white with a lot of numbers…carry distances from the tee, re-lasered front-of-green yardages from virtually every sprinkler head, green depths to relevant slopes and green cuts, etc. Basically, about every piece of information you could ever want to calculate yardage for a shot.
If you’re playing in this week’s event and want one, get in touch with me through any of the ways on my contact page.
I was very impressed with the final product, although there are a few things we can improve on our next book. This was a lot of hard work to produce. We spent almost 10 hours at the course last week and then about 8 hours finishing it before handing it off to kinkos. We don’t expect to make a lot of money from our efforts…we’re selling them for $10 which is $5 less than what you pay on the Hooters Tour (for what I believe is a comparable booK). I think the price reflects the lower cost to play the Tarheel Tour and also helps to build support for our books. The primary benefit is that we spend so much time analyzing a course that we know it as well as possible.