I just discovered a cool new trick. I know that many decent course sell yardage books with pictures and diagrams of holes with yardages...which comes in handy when you play a new course. They generally run about $7-15. You can save that money, and also get a cool "head start" on a new course that you may be playing by using Google Satellite Images!
For example: I'm playing some course called Hampshire Greens in MD which I have never played. I look up their address on Google and get this:
Google Maps
Then you click on Satellite and zoom in. You can get a decent picture of how the hole goes, and how far the bunkers are away, etc, by using the scale located on the bottom left hand corner. When I get bored at home tonight, I'll make my own yardage book with these pictures. This will not give you detailed yardages, but I really don't need to know how many yards the hole is cut from the edge of a tier and crap like that. I just want to know how far I have to carry it to clear a hazzard, or how far the bunkers are away from the tee box.
I hope this helps.
For example: I'm playing some course called Hampshire Greens in MD which I have never played. I look up their address on Google and get this:
Google Maps
Then you click on Satellite and zoom in. You can get a decent picture of how the hole goes, and how far the bunkers are away, etc, by using the scale located on the bottom left hand corner. When I get bored at home tonight, I'll make my own yardage book with these pictures. This will not give you detailed yardages, but I really don't need to know how many yards the hole is cut from the edge of a tier and crap like that. I just want to know how far I have to carry it to clear a hazzard, or how far the bunkers are away from the tee box.
I hope this helps.
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