winter rules on the green

[MashieNiblick]

The thing with tending the flag is that the person is standing near the hole for much longer than someone who is just walking up and picking the ball out.

I'm not sure I really understand all the objections to this practice. At our club we are requested not to attend the flag in friendly games. We respect this and mostly take the flag out. We do occasionally leave it in for long putts or to speed up play when necessary. There is of course NO penalty simply for putting with the flag in. In all the years we have done this at our club I can probably think of maybe a couple of times when someone has actually hit the flagstick with a long putt. However as we are playing a friendly 4BBB match between ourselves we wouldn't have to impose the penalty in any case.

If it saves even a small amount of wear and tear each time we all play, in a games between friends that otherwise, beyond a bit of banter or the odd quid, don't matter diddly-squat, then surely it's a sensible practice.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Maybe you're being a bit gullible Phil?

I'd wager that bending down to get a ball out of the hole means you stand closer the the hole than reaching to get the flag.......not to mention using our putters as a crutch to steady ourselves when picking the ball out.

More to remove people from standing there for a couple minutes to tend the flag

Our greens are immaculate now because of the green so I'm going to trust him

 

[Robobum]

Perhaps we all need to invest in those rubbery sucker jobbies on the end of seniors putters to keep us away from the hole

I am envious of people who use them! Pride prevents me from getting one just yet

 

[BTatHome]

not saying that's its not providing any relief LP... just saying that's the time saving is very small, and any possible relief from football is negligible too. maybe we can just make everyone not putting stand off the green

BTW. Greenkeepers aren't always right, as they don't always agree on everything .... playing on frosted greens as just one example.

 

[Robobum]

How bloody close to the hole are you you standing when tending!?!?

 

[delc]

How bloody close to the hole are you you standing when tending!?!?

Should be at arm's length, but some people stand closer than that.

 

[Robobum]

Should be at arm's length, but some people stand closer than that.

They probably have shorter arms

 

[Fish]

I reckon we should have automatic pop-up bases in the hole, the ball rolls in and seconds later it fires itself back out again, it's obviously only activated once the flag is removed though :smirk: This also stops those pesky seniors gauging their balls out with their putter damaging the walls of the hole because they can't bend down, well they can, but they can't get back up