Why you should have the flag stick taken out

Lord Tyrion said:
A favourite of mine when I first joined this forum was a thread about using a poker chip as a marker. It went on for pages, hugely funny love and hatred for them. That one has never come back so I assume they are used less now.
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No but the Equipment Rule has changed.
You also forgot to mention d****s o_O
 
Imurg said:
Surely, if the ball has hit the flag with enough force nearly send it off the green it would have gone a similar distance past if the flag had been out...? Unless its hit the back of the hole, jumped a foot in the air and dropped..
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No - back spin or drop and stop. It would have probably stayed within a yard of the hole. More like drop and stop, one of the other players ball had completed plugged in the same area.
 
I just go with the flow. The only thing that irritates me is when someone asks for it back in on a short flat putt! I’ll maybe have it back in myself on crazy downhillers but some guys are obsessed with having it in every shot.
 
Is it faux pas to put the flag on the floor? Must it be erect in someones hand?
 
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Over last year we just got more and more used to just leaving it in all the time.

Yes it looks nicer rolling the ball into an empty hole but for us that was the only difference.

Flag is always in now.
 
jim8flog said:
Yesterday, par 3, my mates ball hit the flag and nearly disappeared off the green.

One of the other guys quipped " It's why should ask for the flag stick to be taken out"

The first player always leaves the flag in, the rest of us take it.
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I'd say our groups are now keeping the flag in almost all of the time.

Fewer and fewer people are taking the flag out, barring the wind blowing the flag towards you.
 
Grant85 said:
I'd say our groups are now keeping the flag in almost all of the time.

Fewer and fewer people are taking the flag out, barring the wind blowing the flag towards you.
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All of my mates keep the flag in when teeing off on a Par 3 hole:ROFLMAO:

I think quite a few are missing the point of the OP
 
Biggest issue I've seen with people holing out with the flag in, is that they then pull flag stick to remove the ball at the same time from the hole in turn causing damage to the hole edge.
 
jim8flog said:
It was a tee shot from about 140 (see original post).
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If it's the tee shot then that's just unlucky and has nothing to do with the flag being in or out. Next time I'm on the tee on a par 3 I'm going to tell a pp that I want the flag out and see what kind of reaction I get...
 
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