Yards builds a stats-powered game plan for every hole — personalized to your handicap, your clubs, and the course you're playing.
380-yard par 4, water left. Your gut says driver. Your caddie ran the numbers: driver finds the fairway 52% of the time. 5-wood: 83%. When you miss with driver, 12% ends up in the water. With 5-wood, it's 2%. The 5-wood scores 0.3 strokes better on average. That's not playing it safe — that's playing it smart.
Handicap index and how far you hit each club. That's all it needs. Your shot dispersion pattern is modeled from USGA handicap research data for your skill level.
1,800+ courses mapped with hole-by-hole strategy. Every fairway, bunker, water hazard, tree, and green traced from satellite imagery and OpenStreetMap data. New courses added every week.
For every hole: which club scores best, where to aim, what the miss costs, and why. Download it as a PDF yardage book and walk to the first tee with a plan.
Every recommendation is backed by strokes gained simulation — the same framework that changed how the PGA Tour evaluates performance.
We simulate hundreds of shots with each viable club — factoring in your dispersion, the hazards, and where misses end up. Each shot scatters according to your skill level and gets checked against every feature on the hole: fairway, rough, sand, water, trees, OB. The club with the lowest expected score wins.
Every position on the hole is color-coded by expected strokes to hole out. Green zones save you strokes. Red zones cost you. The optimal target isn't always the fairway center — sometimes the best miss is a specific side of the rough.
Your handicap and club distances define your dispersion pattern. We model the lateral and depth spread — your driver isn't a laser, and the model knows that. The shot cloud overlay shows where your shots end up and what each landing zone costs you.
Your caddie explains the play the way a real caddie would — aim at the left bunker edge, miss long not short, take the extra club. Not generic advice. Advice for your game, based on your numbers.
Real elevation data adjusts your carry distances. A 7-foot uphill shot plays almost a full club longer. The model accounts for this on every hole so the club recommendation matches the shot you're actually hitting.
Every hole's strategy, distances, and club recommendations in a printable PDF yardage book. Study at home the night before. Walk to the first tee knowing the play on every hole.
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