Module 6: Quiz – Building a Yardage Book

Question 1

Why is a personal annotated yardage book more valuable than a commercially produced one?

• ○ It is cheaper to produce
• ✓ A personal book contains your specific observations, verified distances, green break tendencies, wind notes, and post-round corrections that no generic printed book can include — it becomes more accurate and more useful with every round
• ○ Commercial books are not accurate
• ○ Personal books are smaller and easier to carry

Question 2

You have a distance in your yardage book from last season but have not verified it this year. How should you treat it?

• ○ Use it with full confidence — distances don’t change
• ○ Ignore it and step off the distance fresh every time
• ✓ Mark it with a question mark in pencil and verify it before committing it to a player as a certain number
• ○ Cross it out until you can redo the entire page

Question 3

A player asks for the yardage on an approach shot. The pin sheet says the hole is ‘6 from the front, 4 from the right.’ Your book shows center is 158 yards. What is your complete yardage delivery?

• ○ ‘About 158, maybe a little less’
• ✓ ‘Center is 158, but with the pin 6 paces from the front I’d call it around 150 — front-right pin, best miss is short-left’
• ○ ‘158, I think’
• ○ ‘I’ll need to pace it off first’

Question 4

What is the correct color-coding system for hazards in a yardage book?

• ○ Blue for all hazards, red for all safe zones
• ○ No color coding — everything in black ink for clarity
• ✓ Red for hazards (bunkers, water, OB), blue or green for preferred landing zones and safe areas
• ○ Yellow for everything important

Question 5

When is the best time to update your yardage book with new observations?

• ○ At the start of the next season
• ○ Only when a player specifically tells you a distance was wrong
• ✓ Immediately after each round while observations are fresh — a 5-minute review hole by hole adds the most detail with the least effort
• ○ Once a month during the off-season

Question 6

A player challenges your yardage, saying they think it’s shorter than you stated. What do you do?

• ○ Stand firm — your book is always right
• ○ Immediately agree with them to avoid conflict
• ✓ Acknowledge their concern, offer to re-verify the distance right now if possible, and never give the player a definitive number you are not confident in
• ○ Tell them to use their own rangefinder