{"id":5565,"date":"2021-03-24T06:55:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2021-03-26T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:16:16","slug":"google-maps-and-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/google-maps-and-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps and Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, I got to playing with Google Maps to see how far away different objects in the Fairgrounds field<\/a>, where I hit golf balls, it being only one block from my house, are from each other. The Internet is such a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n

I found a feature that I didn\u2019t know about before which measures straight-line distances. Pull up your map of, let\u2019s say the second hole that requires you to carry the tee shot over a ditch or lay up. How far do you have to carry the tee shot in order to carry the ditch? <\/p>\n

GM will tell you, and if I am not the last man on Earth to have found this feature, you\u2019re in for a treat.<\/p>\n

With the image of the hole, nice and big, in front of you, right-click on the tee box. A box will pop up with all sorts of features. Left-click on \u201cMeasure Distance\u201d. <\/p>\n

Right-click on the spot you want to measure the distance to. Another box will pop up. Left-click on \u201cDistance to here\u201d. A graduated line will appear, giving you the distance between the two spots. <\/p>\n

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This image shows you why I don’t try to hit over the ditch. 633 feet (211 yards) is more than I want to try for. Not to mention, it’s uphill. I can do it, if I really nail it, but how often you really nail it? Besides, this a par 5 and I almost always get par by laying up to the ditch. But now I know.<\/p>\n

If you want to get deep into your strategy, you might find holes that you can play better by playing to a specific spot off the tee and finding out what club you would hit to get there.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll let you figure out how to use this tool in places other than off the tee.<\/p>\n

The whole point is to perhaps learn how to get your way around the courses you play by hitting manageable shots that play to your strengths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, I got to playing with Google Maps to see how far away different objects in the Fairgrounds field, where I hit golf balls, it being only one block from my house, are from each other. The Internet is such a wonderful thing. I found a feature that I didn\u2019t know about … Continue reading Google Maps and Golf<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brilliant-ideas","category-playing-the-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1rL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5584,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}