Most golf arithmetic gets done in the fairway, badly, with a ball in play and a group waiting. These six tools exist so you can do it at the kitchen table instead. Work out your handicap once, know your carries before the season, decide whether that laser is worth the money, and get to the first tee knowing how long you will be out.
Nothing here asks for an email or a login. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere; the math runs in your browser and vanishes when you close the tab. Every formula and every reference number names its source on the page, so you can check us.
The tools
Golf handicap calculator
Score differentials from your last 20 rounds, a Handicap Index by the World Handicap System table, and a Course Handicap for the tees you are about to play. Net double bogey too.
Golf club distance chart
TrackMan’s PGA and LPGA Tour carries, sourced amateur benchmarks, and a build-your-own card that fills in the clubs you have not measured. Prints on one page.
Plays-like distance calculator
Elevation, wind, temperature and altitude, each as a labeled rule of thumb with its source. A website tool: the app shows the raw distance to the middle and leaves the judgment to you.
Rangefinder vs. app: cost per round
What a laser really costs per round over the years you own it, next to each Yardage plan at your rounds per year. It tells you when the laser wins.
Pace of play calculator
How long your round will take from group size, holes, course setup and the tee sheet ahead of you, using the R&A’s published hole times.
See the number
A drawn hole with a marker you can drag. The number is the real distance from your spot to the center of the green. That is the whole app, on a web page.
How we built them
Each tool started with the published method, not with a competitor’s page. The handicap calculator follows the Rules of Handicapping as the USGA and R&A publish them, including the table for players with fewer than 20 scores and the soft and hard caps most calculators skip. The distance chart uses TrackMan’s tour averages by name and year. The plays-like rules are quoted with the tests they came from, and the pace calculator borrows its hole times from the R&A Pace of Play Manual’s own example course.
We checked every calculation against a worked example from the source before shipping it, and the checks run automatically each time we change a line. If you find a number that disagrees with the official one, email support@theyardageapp.com and we will fix it or explain it.
One more thing, because it matters: the Yardage app does none of this. It shows the GPS distance from where you stand to the center of the green, in yards, as one large number. These pages are for the thinking you do before the round. The app is for the shot in front of you.
Distance to the green. Nothing else.
One number, from where you stand to the center of the green. Live on your Lock Screen.
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