Get your own Virtual Caddy

It goes without saying that no self respecting Tour professional with an eye on winning a golf tournament would tee off without first taking a walk around the golf course, or playing a practice round.

For the rest of us though, playing an Open Golf Competition on a course we have never played before means grabbing a yardage booklet from the pro shop, often just minutes before we tee off!

That is why the team at Virtual Caddy have created audio visual course guides that you can use in advance of your game, to help visualise the golf course for the first time.

At the heart of each guide, are the tips and local knowledge as provided by the person that knows the golf course best... the local Head Professional. These tips are narrated and then brought to life with low level aerial photographs and TV style animations to show you the line, hazards and the like. Below is a example screenshot from Turnberry's Ailsa course.

The quality and usefulness of the Virtual Caddy guides has in recent years resulted in the EGU and the English Elite Squad, opting to use Virtual Caddy as part of their preparations for an international match, which they subsequently won.

The best golf courses in the UK have agreed to the Virtual Caddy treatment, and you can now prepare for your game, by registering for FREE at http://www.virtualcaddy.com/

Next week's Open Championship venue, Turnberry, is currently the highest profile course available on-line, but other Top 100 courses also feature, such as Wentworth, Gleneagles, Royal Lytham, The K Club, Hunstanton, Carnoustie, Walton Heath, Tenby, Notts (Hollinwell), Kingsbarns, and Cruden Bay to name just a few.

So take a look and enjoy... but don’t tell your golfing buddies! (if you know what I mean)