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| Download CourseBuilder 1.1.1 for Macintosh | Download CourseBuilder 1.1.2 for Windows |
CourseBuilder is very easy to use. Download the application and drag it to your Applications folder on your Mac or for Windows users, just click the link and follow the installer instructions. Launch CourseBuilder and start entering the vital statistics for your course -- address, phone number and website. This information will make it easier for other TeeShot users to contact your course to schedule a tee time.
Next, click the '+' button below the tees list to create a new tee set definition. Enter the tee name, slope and rating (these are used for handicap calculation) and then fill in the details for that tee set in the holes list below. While many golf courses don't have names for their holes, just about every course has handicap, par and length data right on the scorecard. When you are done with the first tee description, click the '+' button again and repeat this process for each tee set at your course. While you probably play from only one or two tee sets at your favorite courses, entering all of the tee set and hole information will be a huge help to other users of TeeShot who want to play at your course.
At any point, you can choose File->Save As... to save your work in CourseBuilder and it will prompt you for a folder to save the course description in to a .course file.
When you are all done with the course creation, just click the 'Upload to TeeShotLive.com' button at the bottom of the window and your course will be uploaded to this website and added to the search index so other user's can find and download your course description. If you make changes to your course description after you have uploaded it, you can just click the 'Upload to TeeShotLive.com' button again and it will update the version on the website.
Pretty simple, eh?
CourseBuilder for the Macintosh requires MacOS 10.5 "Leopard" or later to run. CourseBuilder for Windows requires .NET Framework version 2.0 or later to run. If it is not installed, the installer will try to install it
Here are a few things that CourseBuilder users have come up with and might be helpful as you're entering your course using CourseBuilder.
Important note: If you are entering more than one course using CourseBuilder, make sure you create a new window for each course (File->New). We put a little identifier in each course that makes it possible to update courses later on and prevents the course from being duplicated on TeeShot Live. If you re-use a window to create a new course, though, you will overwrite the first course with the new information. Just remember, creating a new course? File->New
Some golf clubs have three 9 hole courses and when you go to play 18 holes, you will play two of the 9 hole courses to make up 18 holes. The pair of courses may be different each day at the club so to make this easiest on users, and to still be able to track 18 hole rounds as 18 hole rounds, we recommend that you create three 18 courses using the three possible combinations. For example, Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish Washington has three 9 hole courses called South, East and North. The three courses would then be North-East, South-North, and East-South. If you were playing South-East, one day you could use the East-South course but just start from the 10th hole. If you go out to just play 9 holes, then choose either of the courses that include the 9 you're playing and just enter information for the 9 holes you're playing.
TeeShot 1.5 allows you to see how far you are from the green for each shot, but to do that it needs to know where the green is. CourseBuilder lets you set the GPS coordinates of the center of the green by just typing in the coordinates on the GPS tab. There are lots of ways of getting GPS coordinates, but the simplest way is probably to just use Google Maps on your computer to get the coordinates. It is a little tricky at first, but you should get the hang of it in no time.
- Start by clicking the GPS tab and then clicking the "Show Course Address in Google Maps". If you haven't entered enough of the address Google Maps to find it, now is the time to add the address and country information.
- Zoom in the map view and make sure it is in hybrid or satellite mode so you can actually see the fairways and greens on your course.
- Drag the map around until you see the green that you want to get the coordinates from and then double click right in the middle of the green. This will center the green in the window
- Now click the link button in the top right corner of the map and copy the URL it gives you for the map. Then paste it somewhere that you can see the whole URL. Part of the url will look like this: ...&ll=47.204021,-122.579162... The numbers will be different, but it will looks something like that. The first number after &ll= is the latitude. The second number is the longitude. Make sure you include a minus sign if there is one.
- Copy the latitude number and double click the latitude column next to the hole number you are entering. Paste the latitude number. Then do the same for the second number, the longitude, into the longitude column for that hole.
- Once you have done this for each hole, you can upload the course again. Now when you download it on your iPhone, it will know where the middle of each green is on your course.
| Download CourseBuilder 1.1.1 for Macintosh | Download CourseBuilder 1.1.2 for Windows |