TGC 2019 yardage cheat sheet

[tcb121]

Created a quick cheat sheet for yardages. Easy to print out and keep handy so you don't always have to do the math.

Fairway Yards: 0%	Light Rough and sand outside 40 yards: 7%	Heavy Rough: 14%
50 yards	53.5 yards	57 yards
60 yards	64.2 yards	68.4 yards
70 yards	75 yards	80 yards
80 yards	85.6 yards	91.2 yards
90 yards	96.3 yards	102.6 yards
100 yards	107 yards	114 yards
110 yards	118 yards	125 yards
120 yards	128 yards	137 yards
130 yards	139 yards	148 yards
140 yards	150 yards	160 yards
150 yards	160 yards	171 yards
160 yards	171 yards	182 yards
170 yards	182 yards	194 yards
180 yards	192 yards	205 yards
190 yards	203 yards	216 yards
200 yards	214 yards	228 yards
210 yards	225 yards	240 yards
220 yards	235 yards	250 yards
	Inside 40 yards: 40% sand penalty
40 yards	56 yards
30 yards	42 yards
20 yards	28 yards
10 yards	14 yards

Helps to know that that heavy rough shot from 130 really plays like a 150 yard shot. I assume most get to know this by heart with frequent play, but I think it could be helpful for the first few months to get going with.

[3on3putt]

I have thought about creating this exact thing but have been too lazy to actually sit down and do it. Thank you! Going to print this and post it on the wall by the keyboard. (Hopefully I'm not too lazy to at least do that lol).

[dudley286]

Greatness!!!!

[JoseM81]

Anybody know the how big in yards the circle is when you hit 'Q'? The radius.

[3on3putt]

No but I believe each grid line on the green represents 1 yard so you could count the number of grid lines inside the radius to determine it.

[JayJo13]

This is great! Thanks for sharing!

[968Cab]

Fantastic, thank you!!

[dlnoonan]

Happen to know the % for conditions such as pine straw and cartpath?

[Kevin Bassett]

This is great. After drinking while golfing, math is hard.

[scotch607]

This is very useful! Especially for guests. Thanks. Now someone just has to figure out the landing zone distances for the various clubs.

[3on3putt]

This is very useful! Especially for guests. Thanks. Now someone just has to figure out the landing zone distances for the various clubs.

This is the area where the developers of the game just totally dropped the ball in my opinion. It would be so much more helpful to just show us the distance to a certain spot rather than showing us that it's a 3-wood to here or a 4-iron to here or whatever. I just want to stand on the tee and know that it's 234 to carry that bunker and 251 to reach the rough at the corner of the dogleg or whatever. Just let me move a cursor around that shows the distance to whatever it's pointing at. Pretty simple. I know you can use the mini map but it's so small that it's impossible to get any precise yardages from it. We need the mini map concept used for the actual view of the hole (and then there would be no need for the mini map). I don't know why they decided to do it the way that they did instead of going with the most obvious and most useful route. It's my biggest complaint about the game (one of my only complaints actually).

[Fhacker]

Agree. I guess it’s the way the console game is an Protee can’t change

[SoftballDad00]

There is a map button on the bottom right hand corner next to fly by view?? It has distances to bunkers, etc.

[Virtualadam]

Thanks for posting, was looking for something like this, and to confirm the penalties from various surfaces.

Really the app should explicitly display the relative penalties on the screen, why leave people guessing...

[3on3putt]

Thanks for posting, was looking for something like this, and to confirm the penalties from various surfaces.

Really the app should explicitly display the relative penalties on the screen, why leave people guessing...

I agree. If it's a set mathematical formula they may as well just give us the adjusted yardage instead of making us jump through hoops to calculate it. I think it would actually be pretty neat if the rough penalties were a range instead of a flat number. So instead of heavy rough being a 14% penalty, make it a 10-15% penalty so there's some randomness and unpredictability there. Part of the penalty of hitting out of rough in real golf is not knowing exactly how it will come out and not knowing exactly how far it might carry. Would place more of a penalty for not hitting fairways.

I took the original posters chart and added the 5 yard increments in between the numbers and then printed it out and hung it on the wall next to my clubs. So much quicker and easier!

[Charlie CanadaUK]

Thanks for this! Also would be great to see it for other terrain like paths/pine.

Is it really true that a 50 yard sand shot should be played as 53 yards whereas a 40 yard shot should be played as 56 yards? (I understand the maths of it but just checking it is actually just a formula the game applies and you haven't oversimplified it?)

[3on3putt]

Yes that's correct. It seems weird, but the game had to choose a certain distance to make the cut off point between what would be considered a blast shot that you would use near the green versus a more traditional ball-first fairway bunker shot. And 40 yards was determined to be that cutoff point.

[Charlie CanadaUK]

ps for anyone interested, I have updated for the 5 yard gaps:

Fairway	Light Rough	Heavy Rough	Sand
10	11	11	14
15	16	17	21
20	21	23	28
25	27	29	35
30	32	34	42
35	37	40	49
40	43	46	56
45	48	51	48
50	54	57	54
55	59	63	59
60	64	68	64
65	70	74	70
70	75	80	75
75	80	86	80
80	86	91	86
85	91	97	91
90	96	103	96
95	102	108	102
100	107	114	107
105	112	120	112
110	118	125	118
115	123	131	123
120	128	137	128
125	134	143	134
130	139	148	139
135	144	154	144
140	150	160	150
145	155	165	155
150	161	171	161
155	166	177	166
160	171	182	171
165	177	188	177
170	182	194	182
175	187	200	187
180	193	205	193
185	198	211	198
190	203	217	203
195	209	222	209
200	214	228	214
205	219	234	219
210	225	239	225
215	230	245	230
220	235	251	235
225	241	257	241
230	246	262	246

[arl16]

Love the idea guys - thanks! I wanted to make a nice printable to laminate and post in the garage, so I stole both of your ideas and made it into a one-pager.

And not to be "that guy", but I believe it says that the lie causes a yardage penalty, meaning for example, it will deduct 14% from YOUR distance hit on heavy rough. So rather than add that much to the distance given with 1.14 x yardage, I backed into that number by dividing the yardage by .86. Not a huge difference, but that's why my numbers are slightly different. Sorry, the math nerd in me couldn't help it.

I figured I'd share my version here too - thanks again for the idea!

[golfmatt1773]

Dumb question from a TGC 2019 newb here...is the yardage impacted on shots that are just played alone in a "local match" or is it only when you play in a tournament or society that the lie impacts the yardage?

[Charlie CanadaUK]

You are 100% not bring 'that guy'...it actually makes a big difference in the sand < 40* yards (see below), so thanks! Is that definitely what the game does though? I know logically it does - long grass has an effect on your ball, it doesn't make the course longer! But other posts in the forums suggest it is a simple 1.14x calc. (Again, logically strange, but if that's what the game does then who are we to judge!)

* I see also that your sheet uses 50 yards at the cut off where other forums suggest it's 40?