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1. Virgil Range

   

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   2/28/2014 4:02 AM

   I just became super at a 18 hole semi private and its in need of fairway yardage markers. The course has been using the flex stakes. I personally dont like them because they look like crap. A few times getting run over and they are cracked or broke. I would like to make some out of pvc and paint it but ive been told that the public golfers make these stakes targets and run them over. Is this true and what do you use?
   
   Thanks,
   Virgil

   
   
   
   
2. Andy Jorgensen

   

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   2/28/2014 6:02 AM

   What does a 4' stick of painted PVC cost you? You'll have some broken, no doubt. But I have found the biggest problem is golfers tend to take them out to hit a shot and either can't find the hole to put it back in or are too lazy and leave it on the ground. Remember though the time it's gonna take your mowers to pull them as well.
   
   If you go this route and find they're not a problem, consider using Vinylguard instead of paint for a longer lasting product.

   
   
   
   
3. Canedo Alberto J

   
   2/28/2014 7:02 AM

   When I was at Gilroy GC in Northern California, we installed the PVC pipes and used them as targets and 150 yard markers. The golfers loved them as they used them as their target to hit the ball down the middle of the fairway. In five years, we replaced 2 out of the 10 we had on the 11 hole golf course. The course I am at now, we have made them with 21/2" PVC and painted the tips black. Golfers are always breaking them. Hopefully this year we are going to replace them with solid 4" recycled plastic 4x4's and will continue to place them in the rough.

   
   
   
   
4. Melvin Waldron

   

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   2/28/2014 7:02 AM

   We paint 4 x 4's and place them on the side in the rough, and we place a painted patio block in the middle.
   
   I've never been a fan of a stake in the middle of the fairway, just because on that odd chance I do hit a drive into the middle; my luck is I hit the stake and loose distance. Well that and we mow fairways more than rough, so there is more getting off the mower and lost productivity.
   
   Mel

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