https://pinhighpress.com/tags/green-reading-books/ Recent content in Green-Reading Books on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/bring-back-the-full-green-reading-book/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/bring-back-the-full-green-reading-book/ <p>Since the first of January 2022, players on the main tours have not been allowed to carry a green-reading book built from laser or level data. The rule, adopted through a model local rule approved by the USGA and the R&amp;A, cut the permitted material down to committee-issued yardage books and whatever a player or caddie has written in their own hand, based on their own eyes, walking the greens that week. No slope percentages pulled from a device. No borrowed precision. Four years on, the sport has mostly stopped arguing about it, which is usually a sign a rule has either worked quietly or simply been accepted without anyone checking whether it actually did what it was supposed to do. This is the second case.</p>