Question: Are Yardage Markers Measuring to the Front of the Green or Center of the Green?
The yardage of any given golf hole is reported on the scorecard and usually on a marker at the teeing ground. The yardage is also usually marked at various points within each hole - for example, from 200 yards out (from the green), 150 yards out, and 100 yards out. Many courses also put yardages on sprinkler heads and other objects found in the fairway. Are these yardages measuring to the front of the green or the center of the green?
Answer: Assuming the golf course is using the correct procedure for measuring hole lengths, all yardages given are to the center of the greens.
Some golf courses list multiple yardages on sprinkler caps or other yardage markers embedded in fairways. In these cases, the course is usually listing the yards to the front, center and back of the green.
However, if only one yardage is listed, it is to the center of the green.
