The craft

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An ISOLINE plate is a drawing of one golf hole, the real one, on the real ground, with your words written on it.

DrawingThe real hole on the real ground, from the survey, in contours at whatever interval the hole's own relief demands. The mowing on the fairway and the green, the rake in the sand, the lip heavier where the bunker is deeper, the tee markers in the card's colors, the yardage plates in the fairway, the ground shaded by the light, a north point and a scale bar.
The close-up and the climbA small drawing of the green with its own contours and the way a putt breaks across it, and a section of the ground from tee to green with the rise or the fall measured. Either one on the plate if you want it, wherever you put it.
Paper and inkPigment giclée on archival fine art paper. What you approve on screen is what arrives; colors on paper can differ slightly from a screen.
Sizes and framesEight sizes in two shapes, portrait or landscape, a wide margin on every plate. Classic 8×10, 12×16, 18×24 and 24×32; tall 8×12, 12×18, 20×30 and 24×36. Every size frames: real wood in eight colors, glazed, ready to hang, the plate's wide margin under the glass.
ShippingIncluded, however many plates are in the box. Expedited is a flat $39 within the United States. Where we ship, and how long it takes, is under Shipping.
The foil editionThe plate printed on a metallic foil stock rather than paper: the water and your shot line come back as gold or silver, and so can any note or name on the card you send to the metal. Everything else prints in ink over it. On any plate that has water or a line, at every size, as a print or framed.
The certificateA printed sheet that comes with the order, carrying your line code, what the plate is, and the credit the drawing owes to the open survey data behind it.
ReprintsYour line code redraws this exact plate at any size, whenever you want another.
The Plate PromiseThe plate that prints is the plate you approved. If it is not, or if it arrives damaged, tell us within fourteen days of delivery with a photo of the plate (and of the box, if it arrived damaged), and we draw and print it again, free, nothing to send back. The details are under Returns.

Nothing on the plate is a clean computer line. Every edge wobbles the way a pen does, the contours are hairlines, and every word is drawn stroke by stroke, so no two letters come out the same. The fairway carries its mowing, the sand its rake, a deep bunker its lip. Only the palettes that hold up on paper reach the Builder. Look closely at the print and you'll see the pigment itself.

Pebble Beach, 7th, at close range: the drawn edge, the hairline contours, the hand. None of it typed.

The drawing

The hole as it is: the fairway, the green, every bunker, the water, the tree lines, the cart path you have cursed. Under it, the ground in contours, spaced for the hole's own relief. Nothing is invented. Most courses are drawn the first time somebody asks, and stay drawn. A course we have not reached yet opens as an aerial, and you mark the hole on it yourself.

The detail

Look closely and the plate keeps going: the mowing on the fairway and the green, the raked sand, a heavier lip where a bunker sits deep, the tee markers in the card's colors, yardage plates at 100, 150, 200 and 250, a ripple on still water, and on the line drawing the ground shaded the way the light from the northwest falls on it. Each mark is there because it is on the ground. Under the drawing, a north point and a scale bar. The close-up of the green and the climb from tee to green are yours to place, or to leave off.

The story layer

Everything you write is drawn in the plate's hand, stroke by stroke. Notes in the margin, an arrow to the spot, a ring around the landing zone, your shot line over the hole (tapped in, or read from the GPX your watch or golf app recorded), and the scorecard, with circles and squares: ruled in the corner the old way, written in the plate's hand, set like the key of a map, or carried in the line under the drawing. It's the reason the plate exists.

Sizes

Classic 8×10, 12×16, 18×24, 24×32. Tall 8×12, 12×18, 20×30, 24×36. Each in landscape as well. The two smallest sit on a desk or a shelf; the rest hang. Every plate carries a wide margin, so it frames the way art frames.

Framing

Every size frames: real wood in eight colors (black, white, natural, brown, dark gray, light gray, gold and silver), glazed, and ready to hang when it arrives. The plate's own wide margin sits under the glass, where a mat would go.

The foil edition

The same drawing on a metallic foil stock. What the drawing leaves open, the water and your shot line, comes back as gold or silver, with the ink over it. Any note, and any name and score on the card, can go to the metal too. It moves with the light, which a screen can only suggest. On any plate with water or a shot line, at every size, as a print or framed.

The line code

A short code that names your design, printed on the certificate that comes with the order and in the order email. An ordered plate is kept for good, so the code reprints it exactly, at any size, years from now. The eighteen carries one code for the whole set.

The range

A desk plate from $69, a 12×16 print from $89. The 24×32, framed, $299. Foil from $30 more. The ace bundle, four plates of one ace at one price. The eighteen, for an eighteen-hole course, from $1,179. The club link for a whole membership.

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