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Welcome to the USGolfers web site!

"The game of golf is a game of trust ...
the more knowledge you have the more confidence you'll have ...
greater confidence instills greater trust."

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USGolfers is a golf course mapping and pin management web site working from a growing database of nearly 20,000 golf courses.

For the golfer we provide greater knowledge of the course and a new perspective on your game.

For the spectator we offer player tracking and plugins to communicate through popular social networks.

For the course we instill comfort in knowing you have greater control over pin and green management.

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About ...

In 1996 I was introduced to Google Maps and, as a lover of golf, my first activities were to find my golf courses on the map. The project to map courses was born and I began to build a web page to that end. But, other more immediate needs entered my world and I put the project aside for another day.

Years went by and, as I recently lost the position I'd held for 10 years due to our faltering economy, I found myself in a position once again to re-visit my course mapping web site.

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With improved technologies and a little more knowledge of client-server development I decided to start from scratch and was able to produce what you see here in a few short months ... and there are exciting enhancements to come. In fact, the course mapping is just the means to the true purpose of the site, to provide players access to real-time pin placements from a database of nearly 20,000 golf courses.

In order to provide the pristine greens required to truly trust a putt this pin placement management utiliy will provide golf courses the ability to reserve pin placements for a specfied radius and number of days, helping to prevent the nearby cup marks and providing a more trustworthy surface for putting. Phone Apps will provide a simple interface to view daily placements and manage hole locations from a mapped view showing distances from the green center, tees or approaches, in many cases, acurate to within 1.5 feet.

If you want to know more regular updates will be available on FaceBook. Become a fan and help map the holes for your courses. You'll be surprised how much course knowledge you'll gain. You'll see the golf game you should be playing from a new perspective, learn the hazards from the air, identify where your shot will land. And if you use that knowledge to guide the choices you make during your game, you will become a better golfer.

Have the best game of your life,
Rich

Using This Site

To provide the largest map area this panel slides closed to the right-hand side of the map.

To open this panel simply move your mouse to the far right-hand side of the map and it will open.

To close it, roll off the panel or if locked open, click the gray bar on the left.

You may lock the panel by clicking Lock above and unlock it by clicking the Lock again.

To open the panel when closed and locked move your mouse to the far right and click the gray bar.

Full-screen mode is recomended to get the most from USGolfers. To toggle in and out of full-screen mode in Windows, hit F11.

Left mouse down to drag the map. Left mouse double-click to zoom in, right mouse double-click to zoom out.

{?} cursor indicates there is help on this object which will be revealed by hovering the move over it.

Many panels like this help panel collapse when clicked to provide more real estate.

Help toggles this entire section (Welcome, Using, ...), open or closed.

What's New provides a glimpse of new activities on USGolfers.

Sign On - Some operations like updating course data and interactions using third party plugins like FaceBook and Twitter, require a member account. Use the available Login plugin from our partner sites which can be found on the Sign On panel. "Special Ops" require member accounts which are issued by USGolfers to golf course and other partnering business personel to manage and monitor their data.

Future Features

Course Tour - It's Happening Now! Choose a mapped course in What's New
We are provide tours for mapped courses. It runs automatically; hole by hole, shot by shot.

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This control panel displays on the left when a mapped course is opened.

Future features for the Tour panel may include:
Choice of narratives
A tutorial explaining the operations of mapping
Hole information
Hole reviews, pictorals, videos
Sponsors and information

Wiki Submissions and Sharing
We plan to automatically submit our course updates under our USGolfers Wiki page,
push Twitter updates and make Facebook and blog entries.

Mapping Courses

Mapping courses is really very easy. And while the following help panel may be somewhat lengthy in narrative, once you map your first hole, you'll find it's a very simple process.

(The contents of this section may change based on the current Course you have open.)

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3 Steps To Mapping The Course Tees, Fairways and Greens.

Step #1: Map the Tees
Beginning with Hole # 1, on the map locate the Blue Tee Box furthest from the green, click in the map where the Tee Box is located and a Tee Marker will appear. Drag or use the map's Pan and Zoom to find the tee box and then drag the Tee Marker as near the center as possible.
A guide box will follow your mouse and one like this will appear at the bottom of the screen.
Hole :1 Par :5 Yards :587 Capture :Tee - Blue

It provides the Hole, Par, Yardage and the Capture Tee you are currently mapping.
Repeat this step for each the hole's Tee Boxes.
Step #2: Map the Fairway/Approach

The Fairway
On the map, locate the position where the player's drive will likely come to rest.
The guide at the bottom of the screen will change to something like:
Hole :1 Par :5 Yards :587 Distance :265.3yds from Blue Tee Capture :Fairway

Click on the map where the player's drive would end up. This will vary based on the Tee Box. To see distances from a preferred Tee Box click on the desired Tee Box Marker. For Back professional tees this distance is about 270 yards, for Men's tees it is near 240 yards and for ladies tees near 210 yards.

The Approach
On the map, locate the position where the player's next shot will likely come to rest.
The guide box and the one at the bottom of the screen will change like this:
Hole :1 Par :5 Yards :587 Distance :167.6yds from Previous Mark Capture :Approach
Step #3: Map the Green Center
On the map, click on the center most position on the green.
The guide box and the one at the bottom of the screen will change like this:
Hole :1 Par :5 Yards :587 Distance :167.6yds from Previous Mark Capture :Green

A Flag Marker will appear like the one on the right. Position the Flag by dragging it so that the cup is as near the center of the green as possible. A Track line will then appear connecting the Active Tee to the Green through each of the Fairway and Approach markers.

All Markers and Tracks may be adjusted at any time.
Locating will automatically switch to Satellite mode and zoom the map to the best level for mapping.
Right-click on any marker to zoom in more closely.
Right-click on the Flag Marker to change Active Tee; Track color, weight and opacity.
Click any Tee marker to change the Active Tee reference and automatically update for distances and track lines.
Attempts are made on Tee Markers to automatically match color to the Tee name or position.
*Afuture feature will provide a color selection wheel for Tees and Pins.*
Finished, saved courses, when reloaded, are then auto zoomed, the new course marker positioned based on the center of the course boundaries and the Flag changes to indicate it has been mapped.
Course saving require a Logged In Member and may be locked or monitored by golf course personel.
If your course is new or located in a remote location with poorly resolved satellite imagery, better photography or course design graphics may be overlay on the map at precisly the same position as the satellite imagery. Please contact USGolfers for assistance or in finding aerial photographers.
*A future feature will allow map rotation to improve perspective.*
*A future feature will provide a hole by hole, shot by shot course tour.*