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pulling the flag?

• borntobesting 9,683 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 10:39 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

  On at least 3 occasions If I had had the foresight to have pulled the pin on a par 3 tee shot I would have had a hole-in-one. And once last weekend if I had pulled the pin on # 6 @ Congressional I would have had my 3rd DE. But many times leaving the pin in has saved me from going way past the hole. I will admit that after the second missed hole-in-one because of the flagstick being in I started pulling it on par 3 tee shots for a while. lol. I have never hit the pin on a par 3 since. 

• flaccus 516 Posts

  Sun, Sep 4 2011 2:58 PM

  zagraniczniak:

  when you watch a replay the pin is always replaced in the hole

  and what's with the zoom-out? that also makes it hard to see exactly what happened

• flaccus 516 Posts

  Tue, Sep 6 2011 12:48 AM

  Maybe this, from another thread, is why! flaccus:

   

   Allen63:

  edges are much sharper

   

  yep

   

   

  You mean like this?

  http://www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=a9fbe971-c2f3-4a04-ab07-9f5501175194

• mantis0014 8,946 Posts

  Tue, Sep 6 2011 12:59 AM

  There is an award for hitting the flagstick, another way to get extra bonus points.

  Cheers

     Roger

• mefitz 372 Posts

  Tue, Sep 6 2011 7:51 AM

  flaccus:

  how can you tell that a bounce-off would have gone in? 

   

     Way back when, we did Not have the option of pulling the pin...believe it or not :-). My stats were: 100 flags hit

                       48 hole-outs

  Stats Now : 167 flags hit

                       143 hole-outs

     Of course it`s impossible to say one way or another...conclusively, which shots will drop with the pin in or out....but I can do the math ;-D. Furthermore, looking at my present stats, I`m wondering how many more of those 67 flags hit (since the option to pull the flag was introduced) would have dropped in for birdie, eagle...or even a few double eagles that I remember hitting the flag and bouncing off. I did get my first Hole in One with the flag pulled. As BTBS did, I started pulling the flag even on par 3s...I don`t anymore though, feeling it to be excessive and a little unrealistic, lol. GL

• flaccus 516 Posts

  Thu, Sep 8 2011 3:08 AM

  pretty good evidence; thanks mefitz :)

• maruschak 572 Posts

  Fri, Sep 9 2011 9:48 AM

  There's always that possibility,.."damned if I do and damned if I don't!" In real golf the reason for removing it is obvious,....but for me???......I'd have more concern if I was around the hole more often than I am!! LOL   Happy hitting!!!

• flaccus 516 Posts

  Fri, Sep 9 2011 7:44 PM

  maruschak:

  In real golf the reason for removing it is obvious

  yep, so you can lay it at right angles behind hole - strange that WGT doesn't offer this option ;)

• LizzieRossetti 1,545 Posts

  Sat, Sep 10 2011 2:36 AM

  Ok, well I have readed through this venereable thread and now I haves some idea why my Uncle gets so red in the face and angery with me when we play are anuall game. Up till now I have tooken out the flag and layed it in a strait line along the paff of my putt. I find it helps enormussly with guiding the ball into the hole wotsit. I obveusly was missing something of the most terrible impotence then.

   

  Thanks for setting me rite guyz.

   

  Lizzie xx

• flaccus 516 Posts

  Sat, Sep 10 2011 3:23 AM

  no no no Lizzie, at right angles - unless in straitened circumstances

  as for what you were missing ... LOLIE