One last question here, as I start to hammer some of these out…I don’t care either way, just wanted to see consensus.
What type of yardage book do you prefer?
- Both courses in the same book
- Individual books for each course
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While I appreciate books for each course I should point out combining them will likely keep the cost lower.
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Exactly why I voted to keep them in the same book.
Cost is honestly negligible…it would save a few pieces of paper but when creating books for an entire event, we are talking about maybe 3-5 cents a page in cost.
My thought on a single book was not that it would be a cost saving measure but it would possibly be easier to only need to worry about keeping track of a single book.
My intention was to do separate books but didn’t know if there was an appeal to a single book, so people didn’t need to switch them out midday.
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You’re the expert…if you think two books is the play and doesn’t really impact cost them let’s do it!
@BaxterMSP here is a sample for everyone of the final book pages. Is it possible to add a yardage book column to the signup sheet? Just in the interest of not having multiple docs to manage. I can refer to it for a rough count on how many books I’ll need to print.
If anyone comes up with the pro shop yardage books for Links or Woodlands, from a past trip, I’d love screenshots just to get the sprinkler head distances. Just shoot me a DM if you have one.
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Damn those look good! How about we add a yardage book column to the spreadsheet once we hit March 2021 or so? I think it’s still a little early since calendars can change and we will likely see some movement on the attendees.
Bravo though…these look awesome
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Great work! Can these be available to those wait listed? I travel to Lawsonia yearly and this blows their book away
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Yep, of course. Once they are done, anyone who wants one is free to order. I’ll also post something in the Lawsonia thread at that point.
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Those look dope. I’m curious - how did you get the green slopes? Are you eye-balling that based on satellite photography?
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I went and played Lawsonia all day on a golf trip and took a bunch of notes on the green complexes…just because I’m a nerd and they are so interesting. You can also glean a ton from satellite imagery that is readily available and using an image editor to saturate the contrast of the image. Like on #1, you can very clearly see the contour dropoff of the left side, in addition to the back right portion of the bunker. In the first version of my book, I had everything like that accounted for…and then it was taking notes on green slopes / contours, which are easy to quickly sketch (while waiting to hit shots around the green).
I’m still experimenting with the best way to translate these to digital but you get the idea below.
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Wow, really well done from my memory. Let’s say someone got the GolfLogix greens data, could that be incorporated?
Sure but I really respect what GolfLogix has been doing with their app and green books, so I’m not sure I want to go down that route. At one point, I hoped they would have something like a print licensing agreement, where their green data could be downloaded and used for a yearly fee or a fee per unit sold but that quickly went out the window when they started selling their own books.
My personal opinion is that the sheer volume of data they provide is incredibly, incredibly cool but probably not necessary for 999 out of 1000 players. Digitizing it has been amazing though, as I have used it in the past to look at courses that lack pro shop yardage books or hole by hole pages.
The best resource for all of this is still google earth pro though, in terms of just general course scouting. You could never produce a scanned green map like GolfLogix does but earth allows you to rather easily pull images, see contours to 99% accuracy, gives elevation, etc…it is really just so wild the free public info we have right now as it pertains to satellite imagery and GPS data.
I did not know about the licensing, I agree that would be a bit scummy.
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen some action on this thread, so figured it’s a good morning to give a bump.
With the new thread from DBD stating events can apply to be part of the NIT “ecosystem” I wanted to get a feel from the likely attendees on where they stand. What say you “Ope”-in attendees?
Should the MW “Ope”-in apply for NIT status?
- Yep, let’s do it.
- Nope, let’s steer clear
- I really don’t give a shit
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@anon3021505…that was the fastest, most on-brand response I could have expected. That option was created with you in mind so thanks for validating 
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I aim to please, brother.
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And let’s be honest guise…I fully expect the most apathetic response possible from the Refuge.
Every event organizer’s dream is to have a big collective shrug and people saying “I don’t care, I’ll do whatever”
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As someone who qualified at NSS1 I should probably be in the “let’s do it” camp, but here we are. Go with what you feel, Bax
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