How to Use and Construct a Yardage Book

Use the scale ruler furnished with the yardage book to determine where you will hit the golf ball with the club you want to use. Remember...under the rules of the United States Golf Association the golf course is not required to have accurate yardages on their scorecards, monuments or sprinkler heads.

SCALE RULER:  The RRF Yardage book’s provides a scale ruler that can be used to accurately measure the yardage from any two points on the golf hole’s diagram.

AERIAL OVERVIEW:  The first page of the yardage book is an aerial view showing the entire golf course.

The tee markers on the RRF yardage books are where they should be located according to the golf course’s official scorecard. If the golf course has their tee markers in the correct location according to their scorecard then their tees will match up with the RRF tee markers.

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UNDERSTANDING THE CIRCLES:  The center of each green is indicated by a white dot. The first black ring is 25 yards from this center of the green. Expanding outward are alternating colored and black circles, each 25 yards apart. The green ring is 50 yards, the red ring is 100 yards, the white ring is 150 yards, the blue ring is 200 yards, and the yellow ring is 250 yards from the center of the green.

If you hit your ball outside the diagram area, into the blank white area, all is not lost. You can still figure out the distance by calculating where the ball would be in the white area. Use the nearest point of reference on the diagram to your ball and pace off the distance to your ball.  Use the scale ruler to mark your ball in the blank white area. You may now use this location to determine where you want to hit the ball.

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The RRF yardage books files are in Adobe PDF format. Use the print feature in the Adobe Reader to print out the yardage book. The yardage books are available in two sizes, full page and pocket-sized. The pocket-sized book will fit comfortably into your shorts or shirt pocket.

The full page size has a single golf hole on a each sheet of printer paper and the pocket-sized has four golf holes on each sheet of printer paper. To make a full page yardage book, just print each page, staple together and you're finished.

The pocket-sized yardage book has four golf holes on each sheet of printer paper. 

The pocket-sized yardage book requires you to cut each printed sheet into quarters (do NOT trim off the white borders of the page ).  Arrange the golf holes in the correct order and staple along the edge.

Using the Adobe Reader single page print option, print out a couple of extra copies of the scale ruler page. This is on the last page of the yardage book file.  Each page has two scale ruler with tick marks which is scaled to be used with the yardage book’s golf hole diagrams. This page may be cut in half to make two separate scale rulers.

After the RRF Yardage book scale ruler page is cut in half, fold over each of the two sides to make the ruler easier to use. Scotch tape the back of the folded over ruler to make it stronger.