Golf Course Strategy Pack

Which tees, how many strokes, where they fall, and what the shot actually plays

Starting with the decision that comes before all the others: which tees. Your own 7-iron carry gives the yardage that fits you and the club you really have into an average par 4 — and for a very common golfer that is 5,820 yards, shorter than almost any men's set on any card. Then the strokes: Course Handicap by tee, what each format takes back, where the strokes actually fall by stroke index, what a shot plays like in cold or wind or uphill, and how to aim with the dispersion you actually have. 10 pages, printable, with a fill-in course record.

Look inside

Two full pages from the pack, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.

What is in it

• The tee yardage that fits you, derived from your own 7-iron carry — not a borrowed multiplier
• The club you actually hit into the average par 4, from every set of tees
• Which courses you cannot reach a par 4 on in two shots, and which you can drive
• What 25 yards of roll changes, and why it is worth measuring rather than guessing
• Course Handicap by tee - the same Index gives different strokes
• Format allowances, and the four-ball 90% trap
• Where your strokes fall by stroke index, including above 18
• Plays-like yardages for temperature, altitude, elevation and wind
• Why cold plays LONGER, and why a headwind hurts twice as much as a tailwind helps
• Hazard risk by your own dispersion, and the yards to aim away
• Order of work on the tee, in the order that matters
• Fill-in course record and holes-to-respect sheet

The pack complements the free calculators — they do the arithmetic, it carries the figures they cannot know.