Flag position

[richart]

What method does you course use, if any, to indicate whether the flag is front, middle, or back ? Our course has what i think is the best method, with red flags for front, yellow for middle and white for back. Same as the tees.

Played St Georges Hill yesterday, and the have a little flag which is positioned on the pole to indicate the pin position. These flags are tiny and almost impossible to see from any sort of distance. A lot of the greens are elevated so you can't see the hole to judge for yourself.

The only problem at my course is when we have a big competition, we have special championship flags that are all white. Usually takes me five or six holes to work out that all the flags can't be at the back.

 

[bluewolf]

my course uses the "jump up with one eye closed" method. If it looks like its at the front then its at the front etc etc etc...

 

[GB72]

We use the coloured flag method and that is very helpful. If the tee shot is blind on a wide green, we also have a market pole with a yellow circle positioned to let you know if the flag is left, right or in the middle.

 

[john0]

Coloured flags the same as you richart. This is very helpful as our course is rather hilly so on many holes you cant see the bottom of the pin

 

[MashieNiblick]

We used to use the little flag method but it wasn't always clear whether it was at the top or middle or bottom. Now we have nothing.

Our pro once explained to me how, you could see a lot of the flags on the course and check their position before you reached the hole (e.g from the 2nd you can see the 6th and 17th greens, from the 3rd you can see the 4th and 14th greens etc) but I always forget to check them.

 

[19thagain]

To quote TheCraw ... Pampared lot!

We have, let me see now, bugger all!

 

[Aztecs27]

Coloured flags. It's taken me 6 months to get the colours memorised and now they've changed them but at least they're red, yellow and white which is easier to remember.

 

[Paul_Stewart]

We have red for front, yellow for middle, white for back, and ones stuck in a bunker just for Homer.

We had our championships last year with proper pin placement charts and during the first round, one of our group noticed a white dot on each green and assumed it was the location for the second day.

So he starts visualising shots and putts to each dot and marking them on his chart.

We'd cottoned on by the 2nd hole that the dot indicated the centre of the green and that it was for measuring the hole location for the chart. Took him 14 holes to suss it out.

He didn't show his face in the clubhouse as everyone was taking the p*** so much.

 

[richart]

Our pro once explained to me how, you could see a lot of the flags on the course and check their position before you reached the hole (e.g from the 2nd you can see the 6th and 17th greens, from the 3rd you can see the 4th and 14th greens etc) but I always forget to check them.

Perhaps that is why we have coloured flags, as you don't see any of the front nine greens before you play them, except the 9th from the car park.

 

[Imurg]

Nothing at all, not a sausage, bugger all.....

That's why I got a laser.

 

[richy]

Only just started with the coloured flags, much better now tho

 

[fundy]

Current course have little flags which are next to useless.

Previous course I was a member at had pin of the day either A, B, C or D and on the back of the scorecard was the 18 greens split into the 4 sections, this is definitely by far the best option Ive seen yet few courses seem to use it, I guess as it requres a bit more planning than the ohter methods used.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Played a local pay and play last week, the flag position was sometimes "laying beside the green", this indicates the moron before forgot to put it back

 

[dannygee]

Ours is as Fundy says but with 6 options A B C D E F and the pin positions for the day are all E for example then you refer to your little chart and it shows you which sixth of the green it will be in. Only problem is nobody ever has a pin placement chart with them!

 

[RGDave]

No method at mine. Most you can see. Some you need to jump (!?) and others are a waste of time (elevated), that's why I check 'em out on the way round when I can.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We have red (front) yellow (middle) and white (back). We're getting a black one 30 yards behind the green for Paul Stewarts ego but they've not arrived yet. To make it even easier on old fools like me they even run in sequence so the 1st, 4th 7th etc will be one colours, 2, 5, 8 another and 3,6, and 9 the other one

 

[Region3]

What method does you course use, if any, to indicate whether the flag is front, middle, or back ? Our course has what i think is the best method, with red flags for front, yellow for middle and white for back. Same as the tees.

Same as that. By far the best method I've come across, except sometimes from distance it's not easy to tell faded yellow from white.

 

[big_russ]

We have red-front, yellow-middle and white-back.
If we have a sponsored comp with all the flags the same we get a pin sheet with the score card indicating where the flag is positioned. i.e. 7 yards from front, 5 yards from left.

 

[Whereditgo]

Nothing, zip, nadda, diddley squat.....

Although played the first round of the single matchplay last night and most of the flags were at 45 deg due to the wind!

Still won 6 & 5 though

 

[PNWokingham]

we have pin position A, B or C, which equates to front, middle and back. If it is C, for example, the first hole will be back, second front etc