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Just imagine. If we can resolve this issue here, we could easily create world peace and be a shoe in for a Nobel prize.
Flags Out????
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Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
And then we'd lose it at there would be fights about who's having it this weekend and who has it over Xmas....
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
We would argue whose turn it is to have it in their house.
Do you get a trophy?
Golfnut1957
Newbie
First comp of the season today and another one that didn't go in because of the flag. And for the too firm brigade this one was toppling in at 9 o'clock, in the side door, so no pace and still bounced off. Flags out!!
My mate and PP had a pearler which made me laugh (inwardly). A one foot tap in that hit the flag, bounced back straight back at him and stopped a millimetre from the edge, teetering but refusing to fall. He was livid.
My mate and PP had a pearler which made me laugh (inwardly). A one foot tap in that hit the flag, bounced back straight back at him and stopped a millimetre from the edge, teetering but refusing to fall. He was livid.
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SammmeBee
Journeyman Pro
Off the pin flag or off the lifty up things.....?
KenL
Tour Rookie
Club needs to do more to source thinner pins or make sure the pins are upright.
Golfnut1957
Newbie
Very thick lifty up thing.
SammmeBee
Journeyman Pro
So it isn’t the flag you have an issue with then!!
We don't have a lift up device, we had foam in the base last year, cut down plastic piping this year. We don't get bounce outs unless you hit it so hard it wouldn't have dropped anyway. I've played at courses with the lift up. They are a pain and a problem. Ditch them and a good number of the grumbles would disappear.
SammmeBee
Journeyman Pro
This......
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So would tending the flag ?
Ah, but we are still in an era of covid so not yet applicable
. The lift up device is an over engineered solution to a simple problem. Cut down a bit of plastic piping into 18 pieces, about 5cm or so long. It really is a cheap and simple, temporary
, solution.
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
This is a thing these days though.Ah, but we are still in an era of covid so not yet applicable
The lift up device is an over engineered solution to a simple problem. Cut down a bit of plastic piping into 18 pieces, about 5cm or so long. It really is a cheap and simple, temporary
Simple solutions to simple problems are dismissed for very complicated ones.
We had one of our plastic discs on the flag break so we just put sand out of a bunker in the hole to stop the ball dropping to far.
Beedee
Assistant Pro
I remember reading Ross Brawn's autobiography about his time leading Ferrari. This was at the time when they were wiping the floor with the competition. He said his goal was to "make solutions are simple as the problem required them to be, not as complex as the budget allows". The flag pole lifters fail this test badly.Ah, but we are still in an era of covid so not yet applicable
The lift up device is an over engineered solution to a simple problem. Cut down a bit of plastic piping into 18 pieces, about 5cm or so long. It really is a cheap and simple, temporary
Golfnut1957
Newbie
My mate came up with the solution of topping the hole up with sand last year. It is so simple and so obvious but having gone to the expense of purchasing lifters they will feel obliged to use them.
LincolnShep
Head Pro
This thread is like a car crash; it's tragic but you can't stop yourself looking at it.
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It's not the only thread like that ?
sunshine
Well-known member
Over 500 posts, it's a major pile up! Let's see if we can get to 1000 posts.
louise_a
Money List Winner
Straight flad with an insert in the hole
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
I thought about this thread for a moment yesterday on the course. I had hit it fairly close on a par three and two playing partners chipped on inside mine. As I walked to the hole, it would have felt so normal to take the flag out for everyone without hesitation. I doubt very much that either playing partner would have replaced the flag for their 4-footers. I am very much looking forward to removing flags by choice.
