Course yardage accuracy

[drdel]

Played a course today as a visitor. On a Par 3, yardage on card and on Post says 174: actual yardage 142- must be a pain for visiting teams in competitions.

What's your worst experience of the 'posted' distance compared to actual ?

 

[fundy]

Dont tend to look at posted yardages at all, tend to use the laser and trust that

 

[Bobmysterkaymer]

I always use my bushnell laser! Obviously taking account into tee bed placement and flag position the yardage can be very far out. Bushnell is always right

 

[DAVEYBOY]

Ours are pretty accurate and my S3 and the courses markers are usually within a yard of each other. The biggest problem is when a card has a fixed number then they move the stones forward or back 10 yards.

 

[drdel]

Ah but in a competition the DMD option is limited.

 

[fundy]

Ah but in a competition the DMD option is limited.

not in the comps i play in its not, and if i was playing at a higher level then id want a proper yardage book

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Ah but in a competition the DMD option is limited.

I have yet to come across an amateur competition (apart from elite level) where they can't be used.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Ah but in a competition the DMD option is limited.

Never seen an amatuer comp where the DMD is limited

Or in Pro Am's

I think some of the pro tours allow them now as well

 

[fundy]

Never seen an amatuer comp where the DMD is limited

Or in Pro Am's

I think some of the pro tours allow them now as well

yep allowed on EuroPro these days, surely only a matter of time before theyre allowed on tours full stop imo

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Another who tends to ignore posts although ours are pretty close. I go with my Sky Caddie and use the flag option to move the pin to an approximate proximity on the screen to replicate the position on the green to get a fairly accurate figure (unless one of the group has a laser). I'm not good enough to be that accurate to +/- a few yards and so a general number is good enough for me

 

[chrisd]

Same here, always use my Bushnell and have never played in a comp where it's banned.

 

[Fish]

Another who tends to ignore posts although ours are pretty close. I go with my Sky Caddie and use the flag option to move the pin to an approximate proximity on the screen to replicate the position on the green to get a fairly accurate figure (unless one of the group has a laser). I'm not good enough to be that accurate to +/- a few yards and so a general number is good enough for me

The only GPS to trust :thup:

:smirk:

 

[Foxholer]

yep allowed on EuroPro these days, surely only a matter of time before theyre allowed on tours full stop imo

Only allowed on EuroPro because it's very rare for players to have Caddies (because of the cost).

Pace of Play is greatly helped by simply having Laser/GPS!

On Main Tours, where all players have Caddies, it won't happen for a long time! Of course, all the yardages are obtained by GPS/Laser and Caddies have used them with the player in practice rounds as well.

 

[palindromicbob]

Ah but in a competition the DMD option is limited.

Haven't found to many posted yardages to be far out. Worst was probably when I took the yardage on the card and it was about 20yards less to the green. Had I been more observant I would have realise that although we were playing of Green society tees they had actually been placed just behind the red plate.

More common that I mess up by not checking a) the unit of measurement b) the point of reference for the measurement.

When I started I fell into a couple of mistakes where distances were in meters to front and I've simply assumed that like my own course they'd be in yards to centre. So standing at the 100 marker I assumed wedge when actually it would be 120 or more to the pin located at the centre. Took a few holes to realise why everything was coming up so short.

 

[Oddsocks]

The addington, was ranked at the time around 70th in the country, on the second hole par 5 I'm next to the 150 marker, and the green has a bank that feeds into the green at the front. Anything between 135 and the 150 will end up on the green. Hit an 8i this flew the green and the hedge row behind landing in someone's garden, checked the GPS to find the marker was 125 yards......

I hit the right club for the right distance but the marker was just way off , but since then have never trusted a yardage marker

 

[Smiffy]

The addington, was ranked at the time around 70th in the country, on the second hole par 5 I'm next to the 150 marker, and the green has a bank that feeds into the green at the front. Anything between 135 and the 150 will end up on the green. Hit an 8i this flew the green and the hedge row behind landing in someone's garden, checked the GPS to find the marker was 125 yards......

I hit the right club for the right distance but the marker was just way off , but since then have never trusted a yardage marker

I had the same at the Addington. Par 3 was marked 187 yards, I hit a full blooded 9 iron and came up 50 yards short.
It's a crap course.

 

[patricks148]

Played a course today as a visitor. On a Par 3, yardage on card and on Post says 174: actual yardage 142- must be a pain for visiting teams in competitions.

What's your worst experience of the 'posted' distance compared to actual ?

Thing is you have to look where the tee yardage marker is in relation to where you are teeing off from. If you are right on the front of a tee and the yellow marker is the back of course its going to be different.

Anyway i use a laser

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I honestly don't remember the last time I really bothered about what the markers or scorecard says, I just look at the GPS

 

[SAPCOR1]

"our" course is pretty spot on.

I don't see the issue of using Bushnell or similar in any game at any level, no different to using a yardage book

Then again I have never seen anyone use one

 

[fundy]

Only allowed on EuroPro because it's very rare for players to have Caddies (because of the cost).

Pace of Play is greatly helped by simply having Laser/GPS!

On Main Tours, where all players have Caddies, it won't happen for a long time! Of course, all the yardages are obtained by GPS/Laser and Caddies have used them with the player in practice rounds as well.

So the players use lasers to copnstruct a yardage book and then spend more time in comp rounds translating those yardage books back to real time yardages. So apart from justifying part of the caddies role there really doesnt seem to be any reason not to allow lasers on tour, and if it will help to speed up play, can only be a good thing.

Youre prob right that the dinosaurs who make the rules will keep them banned for another decade or two though lol