That just sounds like slow golfers....plenty of them around. If I'm playing in a threesome (as an example) in a rollup, occasionally I might play with 2 guys who like the flag out and I like it in until I get within 8 feet or so. If I start putting I just let them know that I will keep putting until I'm done so we don't have to put the flag in....and then out....and then in etc. Common sense I would think.
The pro's have several advantages over me....So. Coming back to my original observation, the pros now days seem to prefer the flag out (or attended).
To quote another long running thread - drive for show, putt for dough. At last they have seen sense and come back to my way of thinking
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Spot on. Those people who don't touch the flag, just get on with putting the ball take much longer than those who want the flag removing. It's so selfish of people to leave the flag exactly where it started, in the hole
Drive for show putt for dough, it's just a saying that has no real usefulness.So. Coming back to my original observation, the pros now days seem to prefer the flag out (or attended).
To quote another long running thread - drive for show, putt for dough. At last they have seen sense and come back to my way of thinking
I was good with the heavy ones. Liked how they were solid and unbending in wind. But typically for my place, some members decided that the club didn’t mean to buy the heavy ones but got them sent by mistake and decided to stick with them. And oh how they moaned when a putt hit way too hard bounced out off one.
As @Mandofred On the 1st green I ask my playing group In or Out. We all then know, and on that and subsequent holes if order of putting doesn’t matter Inners will often putt first and putt out before Outers start. How we actually do it can vary slightly, but generally there is little or no In-Out hokey-kokey, and what there is makes no difference to pace of play.
But what happens when you play with people who will only putt in turn or if they are going to stand on your line ?
Yeah...I kind of like that idea. Although the people who just do not like the flag in still won't like it. Although to make a few more people happy....screw those flags in but make the hole a smidgeon bigger.....although even then when someone who likes the flag out hits the flag at 100mph and it bounces out will still insist it would have gone in without the flag.Just change the rules of golf to say that the flag stays where it is; and have a screw fitting for it into the hole to make damn sure it stays there and nobody even thinks about taking it out.
This is definitely the fastest possible option for pace of play, and makes the debate over what is better irrelevant
Pros don't like it? Tough. It's actually much better for on-course (and TV) spectators too, as from many angles it's very hard to see where the hole is when they are putting; and spectators are the ones ultimately paying their wages...
Then you suck it up and do the in and out routine. Compromise.....it's not hard to do.
Like I said, I try to avoid those people, been playing the game for over 50 years and you always had to have the flag out when putting on the green, so why should I change now ?
Like I said, I try to avoid those people, been playing the game for over 50 years and you always had to have the flag out when putting on the green, so why should I change now ?
I like making the hole bigger.....screw with tradition
Do you ever make changes to your game? I do all the time. Change my backswing.....change my hand grip position.....more/less hand action....etc etc. I try different things out to see what works better. Maybe if you gave it a serious try you "might" putt better with it in......maybe.....maybe not. Just because you have been doing something for 50 years doesn't mean it's the best way.Like I said, I try to avoid those people, been playing the game for over 50 years and you always had to have the flag out when putting on the green, so why should I change now ?
I like making the hole bigger.....screw with tradition
and if you want the flag attended - have it attended.You avoid people who want to flag in ?!
And you don’t have to change
It’s very simple that most adults can figure it out
If you want the flag in - have it in
If you want the flag out - have it out
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