When you play without a caddy and no birdie book, how do you know the distance for your second shot into the green?
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When you play without a caddy and no birdie book, how do you know the distance for your second shot into the green?
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#1 by caddysha - February 22nd, 2010 at 01:42
There are generally 3 ways a golf course marks distances…
1. Sprinkler heads. Check these, they sometimes even give yardages to front, middle, and back of the green.
2. Stakes or concrete circles. These are usually on the cart path, edge of the fairway, or middle of the fairway. Red is usually 100yds, white 150yds, blue 200yds, and yellow 250yds
3. Trees/bushes. Many courses have a specific tree or bush at 50 yard intervals. They are typically 100 and 150 yards.
To get your exact yardage pace off from the nearest marker to your ball, with a step being equal to just under 1 yard (a tall person’s step = 1 yard).
As has been mentioned, there is usually also a color system or a pin designation system for pin placements. There are a couple different systems, which should be described on the scorecard.
Hope this helps, and good luck!
#2 by Casey - February 22nd, 2010 at 08:40
They usually have three colored markers on a course.
Blue: 200
White:150
Red:100
Also check for the nearest water sprinkler because they usually tell you what the distance is. You can mark off yardage from those areas by taking a little bit bigger step than usual and calling that a yard. A course usally has different color flags to tell you where the pin is,
Blue: Back of the green
White: Middle of the green
Red: Front of the green
You can take off 10 yards from your yardage on front pin shots and add 10 yards for back pin shots. That will usually give you a good idea of how far your shot will be.
#3 by JT - February 22nd, 2010 at 13:29
There are yardage markers on most courses. Most give you several per hole. There are blue, white and red markers either in the middle of the fairway, on the right side or left side of the fairway (marked by stakes), or on the cart path. The blue marker tells you that you are 200 yards out, white 150 yards out, and red 100 yards out. All of those distances are measured to the middle of the green. Some courses will also give you distances other than those by posting them on sprinkler heads (not all courses do this, so check your local course or ask in the clubhouse before you start your round).
Also remember to look at where the pin is on the green. As I said above the distances that are given on the course are to the middle of the green. But what happens if the pin is on the back half of the green and you need to hit the ball further to be close to the hole? Most courses use a color system where a white flag means that the hole is in the middle of the green, red flag – the hole is on the front half of the green, and a blue flag – the hole is on the back half of the green. The rule of thumb that I use is to add or subtract 10 yards to the distance given to the middle of the green to account for whether the hole is in the front or back of the green. Some sprinkler head markers will give you three distances (front, middle, and back) from there you can make a better decision on what club to hit into the green. (Some courses don’t use a color system but will give you a hole placement guide and tell you the hole placements for the day. You then just must remember to check the hole placement guide to see if the hole is in the front, middle or back, then use the same rule of thumb).
If you don’t want to do any of that, you can buy a rangefinder or a golf GPS device that will tell you distances.
I hope that helps.
#4 by Jason G - February 22nd, 2010 at 20:11
Every golf course I’ve ever been on has yardage stakes or yardage markers in the ground. The cart paths usually have colored strips(blue for 200 yards, white for 150 yards, and red for 100 yards). Many golfers walk off the yardage if it’s in-between any of the previous yardages. All yardages on the course are measured to the middle of the green. So you’d add or subtract depending on where the pin is placed.
#5 by Bopit - February 22nd, 2010 at 22:11
usually golf courses have yardage markers of different colors that you can see. it usually tells you on your scorecard what equals what, but sometimes you aren’t exactly at the correct distance for the markers, so you have to do a little bit of judging.
#6 by bciochet - February 23rd, 2010 at 01:31
There are usually 3-4 yardage markers on each hole.
Black/Gold marker means you are 250 yards from the hole.
Blue means you are 200 from the hole.
White means you are 150 from the hole.
Red means you are 100 from the hole.
#7 by Ram - May 18th, 2010 at 19:49
How do you figure out yardage within 100 yards?
#8 by Fred - May 30th, 2010 at 09:42
I guess you have to evaluate by yourself