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Pulling Flag Beneficial?

• JeffGooch 263 Posts

  Mon, Oct 19 2009 8:53 PM

  once you pull the flag and take your shot...you can continuosly remove and replace it while the ball is in motion...i find that very strange

  as far as success...i've drained quite a few chips with the pin pulled knowing that if it was still in i'd probably clank it and veer off

• PugsAce 1,825 Posts

  Tue, Oct 20 2009 8:19 AM

  JeffGooch:

  once you pull the flag and take your shot...you can continuosly remove and replace it while the ball is in motion...i find that very strange

  as far as success...i've drained quite a few chips with the pin pulled knowing that if it was still in i'd probably clank it and veer off

  The success you're referring to... was that here, in the game, or out on the actual (real) course? For the record, I've still not managed to keep the pin pulled... hmmmm... just had a thought... I, most often shoot from the "reverse" view... I should try it from the "normal" view... might make a difference... ???

  I've noticed that someone reported this as a "bug" in the Bug Thread, and WGT is checking into it... I didn't think of it as such, at the time I started this thread... thought I'd more likely been doing something wrong, but wondered if there was any benefit in the new flag-out "capability".

• MJBboyrox 31 Posts

  Wed, Oct 21 2009 3:10 PM

  PugsAce:

  as far as success...i've drained quite a few chips with the pin pulled knowing that if it was still in i'd probably clank it and veer off

   

   

  I'm not saying for Jeff but I have seen much more chips IN THE GAME  go in with the flag pulled. Otherwise, it has already been said. It can knock down a long approach

• PugsAce 1,825 Posts

  Wed, Oct 21 2009 4:54 PM

  MJB -

  I managed to get to try it, but haven't got close enuff to the hole for it to matter. lol.

  BTW... the quote "as far as..." in your last post is Jeff's, not mine.

• JeffGooch 263 Posts

  Wed, Oct 21 2009 7:31 PM

  actually i do use the REVERSE view quite a bit with my pitching/chipping

  helps me see the line better and concentrate more on hitting it correctly (it'd be nice if the meter was backwards too)

• PugsAce 1,825 Posts

  Thu, Oct 22 2009 3:54 AM

  JeffGooch:

  actually i do use the REVERSE view quite a bit with my pitching/chipping

  helps me see the line better and concentrate more on hitting it correctly (it'd be nice if the meter was backwards too)

  I think what happens, when in reverse view - shooting from off the green, is the green occupies the screen more than in the normal view... so clicking the shot results in the flag being put back into the hole, because the mouse cursor is nearer the green.

  BTW... clicking the "replay" button (left, bottom of screen) ALSO returns the flag to the cup. So, is it just a matter of "remapping the active pixels" on the screen? Does this make sense... I'm no programmer.

  Don't know what you mean by a backwards meter... (?)

• danny66 25 Posts

  Thu, Oct 22 2009 10:55 AM

  Did someone say you cannot pull the pin in the fairway before the shot?  Reason I ask is i just hit a 125 yard shot on kiawah no 6 with about an 8 or 9 mph wind behind me..ignored the wind cause I knew it was a uphill roll...it rolled very slowly up the hill and hit the flagstick..got the sign so I know it did..ball just hung there...removed the pin hoping against all hope it would fall in...ha, no luck...couldn't tell if the flag was holding it out or if it hit it just enough to make it sit on the lip...what a deal.  I think they call that "loves labor lost".

• MJBboyrox 31 Posts

  Thu, Oct 22 2009 3:24 PM

  PugsAce:

  BTW... the quote "as far as..." in your last post is Jeff's, not mine.

   

  My apologies

   

  MJ

• PugsAce 1,825 Posts

  Sat, Oct 24 2009 10:25 AM

  MJBboyrox:

  PugsAce:

  BTW... the quote "as far as..." in your last post is Jeff's, not mine.

   

  My apologies

   

  MJ

   

  no problem... I just wish I could have said it. lol! :)

• Downbylaw11 16 Posts

  Mon, Nov 30 2009 1:33 AM

  I think I've only hit the flagstick on a chip and had the ball go in once, and that was today.  I've hit good chips that were definitely going dead center that were just a little too hard that bounced off the flagstick and went 5 feet away which makes me believe if I pull the flagstick I would have a chance of making more chips