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1. Larry Allan

   

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   6/6/2012 12:06 PM

   Our greens committee wants to restore the course accessories to make it have more of a classic golf look. We currently use a three colour flag system to indicate pin locations. The new system would have a numbered flag.
   There is some grumbling about how they will know where the pin is without a coloured flag.
   
   Has anyone seen anything out there, that is used to indicate pin positions other than the sliding flag, ball, coloured flag on the 150 yd marker, that would suit the purpose.

   
   
   
   
2. Melvin Waldron

   

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   6/6/2012 12:06 PM

   We have our greens divided and it is on the score card so they can have an idea where our pins/flags are.
   
   I suppose regular pin sheets would work as well.
   
   Mel

   
   Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO
   
   
3. Fleegel Timothy

   
   6/6/2012 1:06 PM

   I was at a course and we used colored 2x2's as 150yd markers.

   
   
   
   
4. Clay Putnam

   

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   6/6/2012 5:06 PM

   Most facilities around these parts are using the quadrant system on scorecards.

   
   
   
   
5. Steven Huffstutler

   

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   6/6/2012 5:06 PM

   First the white cup rings, now this,eh? It just never ends does it? I wonder what ever happened to hitting the ball, finding it and hitting it again.......
   
   Anyway, how about a daily scorecard that the pros shop has to print with yardages on it which correspond to a daily pin sheet and using all the same colored flags or maybe switching to pennants?
   
   Have fun.
   
   Steve

   
   
   
   
6. Timothy Walker

   

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   6/6/2012 5:06 PM

   will they be using featheries or gutta perchas and hickory shafted mashies and niblicks?

   
   
   
   
7. Sean Hoolehan

   

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   6/6/2012 5:06 PM

   Larry,
   If your tees are large enough simply use this approach, pin in front-tee markers in back, pin in middle-tee marker in middle, pin in back-tee markers in front. This is the classic method and it also keeps your yardage correct.

   
   
   
   
8. Larry Allan

   

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   6/7/2012 8:06 AM

   Sean Hoolehan, CGCS said: Larry,
   If your tees are large enough simply use this approach, pin in front-tee markers in back, pin in middle-tee marker in middle, pin in back-tee markers in front. This is the classic method and it also keeps your yardage correct.

   
   
   Funny Sean, we used to do that and they felt that it made things too predictable. They seem to want the best of all worlds

   
   
   
   
9. James Smith

   

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   6/7/2012 8:06 AM

   My argument would be that it may slow down play! When I first went to the colored flag system our play speed up by 15-30 minutes because the old times was not trying to read a card or guessing. the other thing that worked was when we finally installed the yardage markers.

   
   
   
   
10. Justin VanLanduit

    

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    6/8/2012 11:06 AM

    We did a front, middle, back system at the course I was an Assistant at. On the first tee we would designate by a bronze number hung on the tee post if it was a 1, 2, or 3 day. If it was "1" the pin on the first hole would be in the front, and then follow with middle second, back third, front fourth, etc... If it was a "2" day the first hole would be middle then follow with back on the second, front on the third. Pretty easy system and didn't require the golfer to always be looking at the pin sheet. If you could just remember that the holes followed front, middle, back it was easy or just remember where the last pin was at.
    
    Justin

    
    
    
    
11. Robert Crockett

    

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    6/8/2012 2:06 PM

    W/O #'s...but our members sure like them

    
    
    
    
12. Sheridan Timothy L

    
    6/14/2012 11:06 PM

    Melvin Waldron, CGCS said: We have our greens divided and it is on the score card so they can have an idea where our pins/flags are.
    
    I suppose regular pin sheets would work as well.
    
    Mel

    
    We do this as well. Greens are divided onto quadrants. Pin position is posted on the 1st and 10th tee. All info is on the scorecard.
    
    Tim

    
    
    
    
13. Steven Huffstutler

    

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    6/16/2012 5:06 AM

    Hey Lar...check out Sandhills in Nebraska for the classic look.
    How about no tee markers or maybe just one per tee, no signs except one that says the hole number, no yardages on sprinkler heads, no frigging white cup rings, a wooden flagstick with a yellow pennant on it. I would like to play at a place like that....hit the ball, go find it and hit it again. No info from a satellite in outer frisking space and no laser range finders.
    
    Steve

    
    
    
    
14. Wahlin Scott B

    
    6/18/2012 11:06 AM

    Steven Huffstutler, CGCS said: Hey Lar...check out Sandhills in Nebraska for the classic look.
    How about no tee markers or maybe just one per tee, no signs except one that says the hole number, no yardages on sprinkler heads, no frigging white cup rings, a wooden flagstick with a yellow pennant on it. I would like to play at a place like that....hit the ball, go find it and hit it again. No info from a satellite in outer frisking space and no laser range finders.
    
    Steve

    
    
    This and a flask. Now that is golf.