Every Great Round Begins Before the First Swing
The Aces Guide® is the premium, course-specific golf guidebook—combining ultra-high-resolution course intelligence, practical strategy, and exceptional craftsmanship to help golfers see the course, build a plan, and play with greater clarity before, during, and after the round.
Ace Your Round. Have More Fun.
Meet the Aces Guide
The Aces Guide is the premium, course-specific golf guidebook that brings ultra-high-resolution course intelligence, practical strategy, and exceptional physical craftsmanship together in one purpose-built tool. It helps golfers see the course more clearly and gives them a place to build, write down, and carry a game plan into the round.
Uniquely built to help golfers ace the round and have more fun.
See the Aces Guide in Action
Watch this fun, fast-moving introduction to the Aces Guide. Renowned sportscaster and fun personality Eric Perkins leads viewers through his own lighthearted transformation from a golfer searching for answers to one playing with greater clarity and confidence. Real golfers then share how the Aces Guide has transformed their rounds, including a young competitive player describing a dramatic improvement in tournament scoring. Together, their stories show how better preparation, visualization, and strategy can help golfers ace the round and have more fun.
A short look at how the Aces Guide brings course strategy into the golfer’s hands.
What’s Inside the Aces Guide
Course intelligence you can hold in your hand.
The Aces View
An ultra-high-resolution tee-to-green view that shows the shape of the hole, key yardages, elevation changes, fairway widths, landing areas, and strategic guidance. Golfers can quickly understand the hole, choose targets, and begin building a smarter plan.
Green Zone Intelligence
A powerful, easy-to-understand view that brings the green’s three-dimensional shape to life. Golfers can quickly see high and low areas, understand slopes and contours, choose better approach targets, and anticipate how the ball will move across the green.
Your Written Game Plan
Every hole spread is designed to be marked and personalized. Golfers can circle targets, note clubs and landing areas, capture approach and green-reading plans, record results, and preserve the observations that turn course intelligence into a written game plan.
Before. During. After.
The Aces Guide is designed to support the full round—before play begins, during the round itself, and after the round is over.
Before the Round
Study the course, choose targets, and build a plan before pressure arrives.
During the Round
Carry your plan into the round and reconnect with key decisions when they matter most.
After the Round
Capture what happened, preserve useful observations, and prepare more intelligently for next time.
The Aces Guide helps golfers prepare with more intention, play with greater clarity, and learn more from every round. It is built to be studied before the first tee, used while the round is unfolding, and marked up with the observations that make the next round even better.
What Better Rounds Look Like
The Aces Guide turns course intelligence into clearer plans, more confident decisions, more resilient scoring, and more enjoyable rounds.
See More Clearly
Understand the course, recognize key decisions, and begin every round with a clearer picture of what lies ahead.
Play With Confidence
Think before your round. Carry a written plan, narrow your choices, and commit to every shot with greater clarity, confidence, and intention.
Protect Your Score
Avoid penalties, compounded mistakes, and unnecessary big numbers that can turn one difficult hole into a damaging stretch.
Learn and Enjoy More
Capture useful lessons, improve the next plan, appreciate the course more deeply, and enjoy every future round even more.
Choose Your Path into the Aces Guide
Whether you are playing the course, managing the golfer experience, or reaching a high-value golf audience, the Aces Guide gives each visitor a clear path forward.
For Golfers
See the course, choose smarter targets, and play with more confidence.
For Golf Courses
Elevate the golfer experience with a premium, course-specific guidebook built for your course.
For Advertisers
Reach a high-value golf audience through a guide golfers actually use.
How the Aces Guide Comes to Life
From patented aerial intelligence to a premium physical guidebook, the Aces Guide brings together course-specific visuals, strategy, design, and craftsmanship.
01
Capture
the Course
Patented aerial imagery captures each hole’s shape and perspective.
02
Build the Intelligence
Course information is organized around shape, targets, and strategy.
03
Design
the Guide
Each guide is crafted into a premium, course-specific format.
04
Put It in
Play
The finished guide supports golfers before, during, and after the round.
Featured at Great Courses
Aces Guide partners with great golf courses that care deeply about the golfer experience. At featured courses across Minnesota and beyond, the guide helps golfers prepare more intelligently, understand each hole more clearly, elevate their game, lower their scores, and have more fun. Explore the courses and partnerships that bring the Aces Guide experience to life.
A Premium Guidebook Built to Be Used
In a world of apps, alerts, and screens, the Aces Guide gives golfers a focused, course-specific companion they can carry, reference, mark, and keep. Built for real rounds and real pro shops, each guide is designed to become part of the golf experience before, during, and after play.
Physical by design
A focused guidebook golfers can carry, open, and use during the round.
Course-specific by purpose
Each guide reflects the shape, strategy, and character of the course it was built for.
Real-world proof
Featured in pro shops and built to support golfers where the round begins.
Patent-Backed. Course-Specific. Built for Golfers.
Aces Guide is created by HCI, a Minnesota-based innovation company, and built from patent-backed aerial intelligence, course-specific design, and a practical understanding of how golfers prepare, play, and remember their rounds.
Patent-backed innovation
Protected thinking behind a premium, course-specific guidebook experience.
Course-specific intelligence
Built around the shape, strategy, and character of each course.
Designed for real play
Created to help golfers see more, plan smarter, and enjoy more.
Interested in an Aces Guide for Your Course?
Let’s talk about how a custom Aces Guide could support your golfers, your course experience, and your goals for the season.