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pulling the flag?

• MGordo 2 Posts

  Sat, Sep 3 2011 10:45 PM

  How do you pull the flagstick?

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 1:30 AM

  MGordo:

  How do you pull the flagstick?

   

  hi

  in the game, there is a button on top right of the screen. press it and flag will be pulled.

  -wgticon

• flaccus 516 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 1:34 AM

  why do you pull the flag? under what circs? haven't seen a benefit yet, except once i hit it on the full from 160 yards and it bounced way off the green

• pb1711 1,183 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 1:48 AM

  flaccus:

  why do you pull the flag? under what circs? haven't seen a benefit yet, except once i hit it on the full from 160 yards and it bounced way off the green

  It helps when you are chipping or flopping around from the green, it does make a big difference as to how many will go in or bounce of the flag.

• flaccus 516 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 4:07 AM

  pb1711:

  or bounce of the flag

  really? All mine that bounce off the flag seem to be going far too quick - right speed and they go in with the flag in -  how can you tell that a bounce-off would have gone in? 

   

• pb1711 1,183 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 8:36 AM

  flaccus:

  pb1711:

  or bounce of the flag

  really? All mine that bounce off the flag seem to be going far too quick - right speed and they go in with the flag in -  how can you tell that a bounce-off would have gone in? 

   

  I suppose a person will never know, but I do manage to chip quite a few in from the fringe and light rough with the flag out. So it seems to work for me, whether they would have gone in even with the flag? well I guess I'll never know. Mind you since I started taking the flag out I do get a lot less "hit the flagsticks". 

   

• Soulcatcher 1,970 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 8:44 AM

  You will have a better chance of holing shots if you pull the flag every time you are shooting at the green.

   

  Happy hitting

• flaccus 516 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 8:44 AM

  pb1711:

  I do get a lot less "hit the flagsticks". 

  LOL yep, there's that stat to worry about - it's a tough life

• zagraniczniak 1,984 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 10:15 AM

  Soulcatcher:

  You will have a better chance of holing shots if you pull the flag every time you are shooting at the green.

  My philosophy is the same as Soul's, but admittedly you will never really know what an actual shot would have done if the pin had not been pulled or vice versa.

  Replays are misleading because as far as I can tell, when you watch a replay the pin is always replaced in the hole.

• PeterHopper 1,315 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 10:20 AM

  Worth pulling for short chips and flops etc, as has already been stated.

   

  From a long way out a hit flag is more often a blessing as it usually takes some speed off an overhit shot, but not always.