Press resources.

For journalists, content creators, podcasters, and anyone writing about Yards Golf Book. Everything below is on the record. The contact email and the factsheet are the fastest path.

One-line description

Yards Golf Book is a pre-round caddie for amateur golfers. Strokes gained, personalized to your handicap and clubs, on a course library mapped by the players who play these courses.

Longer description (for the body of a story)

Yards Golf Book is a web and mobile application that gives recreational golfers the pre-round preparation tools that, until now, only Tour players had access to: shot dispersion modeling, strokes-gained club selection, and personalized digital yardage books for the courses they play. It is not an on-course GPS tracker. It is a planning tool used in the days before a round.

The course library is built differently from the competition. Where vendors like StrackaLine pay teams to draw maps, Yards's production-quality library is contributed and refined by the golfers who play those courses. Contributors earn permanent access to courses they map plus rolling library-wide bonus days. As of 2026, 248 courses are fully mapped, with 1,057 more in active improvement and 31,412 total courses searchable across North America.

Key facts

About the founder

Tom Duggan is a software engineer and golfer based in Vancouver, BC. Yards Golf Book began as a way to apply the strokes-gained methodology that changed how the PGA Tour evaluates performance to the recreational golf experience, where players have spent decades guessing on the first tee. More on the about page.

Story leads we can help with

Specific angles we are happy to provide quotes, screenshots, and data for:

• Strokes-gained methodology for amateurs. Why a metric used on Tour has been hard to apply at the rec level until now, and what changes when it is.
• Community course-mapping as a moat. The economics, the rewards mechanism, what works and what we have learned from incidents.
• Indie SaaS in golf-tech. One operator, no outside funding, the choices that come with that.
• Pre-round vs. on-course technology. Why the next leg of golf software is planning, not tracking.
• OpenStreetMap as critical infrastructure for vertical software. The trade-offs of building on open geometry vs. licensing proprietary data.

Brand assets

Downloads for editorial use. Hi-res versions and additional formats (SVG, transparent PNG, square crops) available on request.

All assets free for editorial use with attribution to "Yards Golf Book" or yardsgolfbook.com. Please do not modify the logo mark.

What we are happy to talk about on the record

• The strokes-gained methodology and how amateur applications differ from Tour applications
• The economics and tradeoffs of community-mapped course geometry vs commercial mapping
• How the course library is built and validated
• The Monte Carlo simulation approach to pre-round shot selection
• The founder story (indie SaaS, solo developer, no outside funding)
• The state of the golf-tech market and where Yards fits

What we will not discuss

• User-level data of any kind
• Specific revenue numbers (we will share general traction signals)
• Details of any third-party integration that has not yet shipped

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