USER1999
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As long as you know it is metres, it is not an issue. Roughly, yards = metres + 10%. ie 60 metres is 66 yards.
Simples.
Simples.
150 Yard Markers
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RGDave
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Is that right?
How come if I empty 2 tubes of balls (42) at the club and hit them at the 150 board, other than those hit poorly, they are all within 10 yards of each other for distance? and I'm not exactly good....
Smiffy
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And of course you are right Sam. Me getting mixed up in my old age! They do make sense if you have the strokesaver, but you are completely knackered if you don't! About as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike and very, very confusing.
Thanks for reminding me
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
Doubly useful at Princes when you go to the pro shop, pay your green fee, and they don't say 'you will need a stroke saver sir, they are £xx'. Nope, you have to get on the course, and think wtf, should have asked for one. Thanks.
It was Princes that made me think a gps was essential. That and playing Crowborough in zero visibility.
It helped that Sammeebee had one, and led to the shout of the day 'Sam, gee's a yardage?'
It was Princes that made me think a gps was essential. That and playing Crowborough in zero visibility.
It helped that Sammeebee had one, and led to the shout of the day 'Sam, gee's a yardage?'
PhilTheFragger
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So it is a conspiracy
The GPS companies must be paying the Golf Clubs to take down the visable markers, thus forcing everyone to buy a GPS.
OI!!! You Have Been Rumbled.
Im gonna write a conspiracy theory book
Inspector Fragger Of the Back Yard
The GPS companies must be paying the Golf Clubs to take down the visable markers, thus forcing everyone to buy a GPS.
OI!!! You Have Been Rumbled.
Im gonna write a conspiracy theory book
Inspector Fragger Of the Back Yard
SammmeBee
Journeyman Pro
Or they have seen an avenue to make money themselves through the same route....
Herbie
Tour Winner
Yardage markers raise a concerning question in the minds of many, though personally I could'nt give a stuff. If its a poor course with respect to markers I play by the eye, if its a decent course then I always have a course booklet or yardage chart and have never found a need for anything else really.
Now with the allowances of GPS devices and Range finders in the game the humble 150 marker is'nt really required other than as a money raising scheme to sell charts or rent out gps equipment, something that many a club might do as a fund raiser methinks?
Now with the allowances of GPS devices and Range finders in the game the humble 150 marker is'nt really required other than as a money raising scheme to sell charts or rent out gps equipment, something that many a club might do as a fund raiser methinks?
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
You have to bear in mind that the pins at Princes are short. Because of the wind?. Maybe. This means you look at the pin, think, 150, cane a seven, and you are 30 yards through the back. Get a gps.
TonyN
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We have green poles at 150 and discs at 100. Works well for our course and they are pretty accurate.
Thing that has always bugged me with our course is not being able to tell if the pins are front, middle or back. Most of the holes I can see on the way round and remember when I come to them but some, you I can't.
We did have the ball on flag pole system going for a while and it was brilliant, then all of a sudden the dissapeared. I do wonder why?
Thing that has always bugged me with our course is not being able to tell if the pins are front, middle or back. Most of the holes I can see on the way round and remember when I come to them but some, you I can't.
We did have the ball on flag pole system going for a while and it was brilliant, then all of a sudden the dissapeared. I do wonder why?
RGDave
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I used to play somewhere (?) where they had a "ball" system on the flags. It was excellent; mostly for holes where you couldn't actually see the putting surface.
My club has red flags for the front third of a green, yellow for the middle and white for the back third. They are usually in a rotation so the first might be yellow, the second red and the third white. The fourth will then be yellow etc. At least you have some idea of the distance then without a DMD
TonyN
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Even when you have a DMD, without knowing where the flags are at my place, you can play a great shot thinking it at the front and end up 40 ft out. The ball system was ace but they whizzed it away after a couple of months.
