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Course Guide

Brookshire Golf Club · Carmel, Indiana
Food for thought · a separate product

A caddie in every pocket, built from the plates you already have.

The tee plate opens the hole. The cart plate logs the score. Together they give each golfer a guide and a scorecard, and give the club real pace-of-play data, with no GPS hardware on the carts.

Tee plate: the hole

Yardage from your tees, today's pin and cart rule from the grounds crew, what to watch for, a tip from the pro, and your score so far.

Cart plate: the score

After you putt out, tap the plate on your cart. It knows which hole you just played and asks for strokes and putts. Two taps.

Two scans make a pace check

The time between the tee scan and the cart tap is your time on the hole. The club sees where the course is backing up and the marshal gets a nudge.

What we know about Brookshire

    Par, Blue yardages and handicaps come from the club's published scorecard. Other tees are estimated from each tee's published total. The views from the tee are illustrations. Real hazards, landmarks and aerial photos get added after we walk the course with the club. This is a concept prepared by ForeSure, not affiliated with or endorsed by the club.

    Sources
      The whole card as a table
      HoleParBlueWhite (est.)Gold (est.)Red (est.)Handicap
      144103773413059
      2319217616014315
      344203863503125
      4436433430327113
      544133793443077
      6552748443939211
      744524153763361
      855595144654153
      9317516114613017
      1055294864403936
      11432630027124218
      12441938534931112
      13320418717015214
      1443873563222888
      15438535432028610
      1655675214724214
      17319217616014316
      1844514153753352

      Blue yardages, par and handicap match the club's published scorecard. Other tees are estimated from each tee's published total until we get the club's card.

      Pace and traffic

      Watch a slow group ripple down the course.

      Six groups tee off ten minutes apart. Each hole has an estimated time and a minimum gap before the next group can start it. Make one group slow and watch the notices go out and the queue build behind it. Model numbers for discussion, not measurements.

      Notices

      Time on each hole, with waits

      Each column is a hole. Color shows how many groups are on it or waiting to start it. Red means someone is waiting.

      What it would take

      To make it real at Brookshire

      Pictures

      Real aerial photos

      A drone pass or the club's own aerials, one still per hole, with landmarks marked. Drop in hole-1.jpg to hole-18.jpg and each hole shows the real picture.

      Numbers

      The club's own card

      Yardages for every tee, the Red-tee pars, and front, middle and back of each green, checked on a route walk.

      Plates

      One more plate per tee

      A tee-box plate on each hole. The score tap uses the plate already on the cart, so there is nothing extra to mount for scoring.

      Notices

      Who gets told

      The group that is behind, the group waiting behind it, and the marshal. The club chooses the thresholds and the wording.

      Research

      Pace targets are local

      There is no single official target. One USGA case study used 4 hours 40 minutes including an eight-minute break at the turn. The club sets its own.

      Scope

      A separate product

      Priced separately, if at all. The plates, the roles and the dashboard do not depend on it.

      Pace source: USGA Fossil Trace case study.

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