Your Best Round Is Still Out There
Better golf starts before the swing — with a clearer plan, a sharper mind, and a better way to approach the course.
Aces Guide® helps golfers think through the round before pressure arrives, then carry that plan onto the course.
Think clearly. Play smarter. Commit with confidence. Enjoy the round more.
Four Questions Before Every Swing
Golfers face the same essential questions on every shot. What are the risks? What plays are available? What target am I choosing? What club gives me the best chance to execute? Aces Guide gives you a place to answer those questions before the round, using course information and your own game, so you can arrive at each shot with clearer intent.
What risks are in play?
Know the hazards, carry numbers, elevation, and how your own game brings them into play.
What plays are possible?
Compare the realistic options — the bold play, the smart setup, and the next-shot advantage.
What is my best target?
Pick a specific target, give the swing a clear job, and your mind a picture of what good looks like.
What club fits the shot?
Choose the club that matches the target, distance, conditions, and shot you intend to hit.
Aces Guide gives you a place to do your best thinking before the round begins. It helps you study the course, apply your own numbers, write down your plan, capture what you learn, and keep working toward the best golf still ahead of you.
Play the Round Before You Play It
The best time to answer the four essential questions is before pressure arrives. Aces Guide gives you a way to study the course, apply your own numbers, think clearly, and build your plan before the round begins.
See the hole with more clarity
Understand the shape, distances, angles, elevation, and key features before you stand on the tee.
Know where the round can change
Identify the hazards and trouble spots that can turn one uncertain swing into a big number.
Think through more than one way to play it
Compare the bold play, the safer play, and the play that sets up the next shot.
Put your best answer on paper
Turn course information and personal judgment into a plan you can carry into the round.
Aces Guide helps you arrive at the first tee with better answers already in hand. It gives your best thinking a place to live and your best golf a better chance to show up.
Before. During. After.
Your best round is not created by one swing. It is built through preparation, clearer decisions, committed execution, and learning that carries into the next round. Aces Guide gives golfers one physical place to connect all three.
Before the Round
Study the course, apply your own numbers, think through the four essential questions, and write down the plan while the mind is calm.
During the Round
Carry the plan in your back pocket onto the course, reference your thinking, visualize the shot, adjust with discipline, and commit to the play you chose.
After the Round
Capture what happened, what worked, what changed, and what you want to improve, so each round becomes evidence for the next one.
Rangefinders and GPS tools are valuable in the moment. Aces Guide is different because it supports the full improvement loop. Preparing with intention, playing with clarity, and learning with a record.
How Golfers Use Aces Guide
Aces Guide gives golfers a practical way to turn course information into better decisions. It helps you understand the course, connect the plan to your own game, carry that plan into the round, and learn from what actually happened.
Get Oriented to the Course
Use the course map, yardages, and hole overview to understand the routing, shape, and where the round will ask its hardest questions.
Match the Plan to Your Game
Use your club distances and personal notes to plan around how you actually play, including carry numbers, tendencies, and trusted clubs.
Build the Hole Plan
Work from green to tee. Identify risks, compare plays, choose a target, and write down the club or shot you want.
Carry the Plan Into the Round
Use the guide on the tee, in the fairway, and between shots to refresh your thinking, adjust to conditions, and commit with more clarity.
Use Green Zone Intelligence
Around the green, use the guide to think through approach targets, slopes, chips, pitches, putts, and where the ball should finish.
Turn the Round Into Learning
After the round, use notes and stats to capture what worked, what changed, what cost strokes, and what you want to improve next time.
Green Zone Intelligence Where Scores Are Made
Many rounds are shaped around the green. Approach shots, chips, pitches, lag putts, reads, slopes, and misses all matter. Green Zone Intelligence helps golfers approach the scoring area with more awareness before the shot is played.
See the scoring area more clearly
Understand the green, its surroundings, and the places where the next shot becomes easier or harder.
Think beyond the first shot
A good shot does not always chase the hole. Around the green, the smarter play is often the one that leaves the next shot easier, keeps the miss manageable, and protects the score.
Learn from what happened
Use notes and round tracking to remember what worked, what changed, and what to think about the next time you face that green.
Green Zone Intelligence does not make the putt for you. It helps you bring better information and better intention to one of the most important parts of the round.
A Physical Place to Think
Golfers have more information than ever. GPS, watches, rangefinders, and shot tracking tools can all help in the moment. A traditional yardage book can give useful reference points. But numbers alone do not create a plan.
Aces Guide is built for the thinking around the numbers. It gives golfers a focused physical place to study the hole, mark what matters, write down decisions, carry the plan into the round, and learn from what happened.
A guide meant to be written in
Circle targets, note risks, write club thoughts, and make the plan visible before the shot.
A guide you can carry
Keep the plan with you on the tee, in the cart, in your pocket, or beside the scorecard.
A guide you can return to
Use the same guide after the round to remember decisions, capture lessons, and improve the next plan.
Aces Guide works alongside your digital tools. It turns information into a written plan you can see, carry, mark, and improve.
The Round Does Not End on 18
Most golfers finish the round with a score and a few memories. Aces Guide helps you leave with something more useful: a clearer view of what happened, what cost strokes, what worked well, and what to improve next time.
Track the round
Record key round metrics and capture what the scorecard alone does not show.
Find the biggest leak
Identify where strokes are slipping away, then look for the root cause behind the problem.
Pick one change
Choose one practical adjustment instead of trying to rebuild the whole game.
Practice with purpose
Write down how you will work on the change, then test it the next time you play.
This is where Aces Guide goes beyond a traditional yardage book. It gives golfers a repeatable improvement system, not just a set of distances. The round becomes evidence, the evidence becomes a plan, and the next plan gets smarter.
Built Around How Golfers Actually Improve
Better golf rarely comes from one idea, one swing, or one lucky round. It comes from better preparation, clearer choices, stronger commitment, useful feedback, and the discipline to keep learning.
Aces Guide brings those habits together in one physical guide. It supports the way golfers prepare, see the course, choose a plan, commit to the shot, write down what mattered, and improve the next time they play.
Prepare. See. Choose. Commit. Learn. Improve.
Where Can You Find the Aces Guide?
Start in the pro shop.
Aces Guide is designed to live where golfers already begin the round. At the course, in the pro shop, near the scorecards, tees, balls, gloves, and conversations before the first swing.
Look for it at participating courses
Each Aces Guide is course specific, created for the course you are about to play.
Ask your course about Aces Guide
If your course does not offer Aces Guide yet, ask the pro shop team about bringing it in.
Explore our featured courses
See where Aces Guide is already helping golfers prepare, play, remember, and improve.
Think Better. Play Better.
Better golf starts with better decisions. Our Golf Strategy Tips are designed to help golfers think more clearly about the course, choose better targets, manage risk, plan smarter shots, and learn from every round.
Explore practical articles drawn from Aces Guide strategy thinking, course management principles, Green Zone strategy, practice planning, and the pursuit of your best golf.
Used When the Round Matters
Aces Guide is built for golfers who want to prepare with more intention, communicate a smarter plan, and step into the round with greater confidence.
The Providence Academy girls golf team entered its Section Championship with a clear goal. They wanted to defend their title, and they were looking for every smart edge they could find.
Coach Mark Petzold, a lifelong golfer and coach of the Providence Academy girls golf team, shared that the team used Aces Guide before, during, and after the Section Championship rounds. The guide helped the team prepare, communicate, and visualize their strategy for the championship.
“The Aces Guide was especially helpful in preparing, communicating, and visualizing our strategy for the Championship.”
Providence Academy improved its team score by seven strokes from the previous year and won the Section Championship.
That is what Aces Guide is built to support. Better preparation. Clearer thinking. Smarter decisions. A better chance to bring your best golf to the course when the round matters.
Want the Aces Guide at Your Course?
Your best round is still out there. Aces Guide helps golfers prepare with more intention, play with more clarity, and keep improving after the round is over.
Look for Aces Guide in participating pro shops. If your course does not offer it yet, ask the pro shop team about bringing it in, or contact us to start the conversation.