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Flagstick ‘IN’ Or ‘OUT’
By Jiro Nakazaki, PGA On 07/26/2011 · Leave a Comment
Whenever golf announcers see professionals off the green and pulling the flag, they will always comment on the golfer trying to hole the shot. There are no logical reasons that follow their assumption because technically aren’t we all trying to hole out whether the flagstick is in or out? The right question to ask is: why do we pull the flag when we do not have to? There is no good reason to pull the pin around the greens, especially if you don’t have to. Here is why.
According to the rules of golf, you are penalized 2 strokes if you hit the flagstick with a putt. When your off the green there is no penalty. Why take it out? The common response to this question is: The ball might hit the flagstick and bounce out. This doesn’t make sense because a ball that hits the pin and bounces out was likely hit so hard that hitting the flagstick was a blessing than a curse. If the ball didn’t hit the flag, it would have rolled further passed the hole.
Short game guru Dave Pelz published his research on this in Golf Magazine (1990′s). After he had a machine and a golfer hit a total of ten thousand putts off the green, his researched found that:
Before you chip or putt from off the green, make sure the flagstick is lined up vertically in the hole. There is no penalty for adjusting it. This way the flagstick should not prevent a ball from going in the hole that would have gone in without it. It will only increase your odds of holing out.
If you were playing a game of basketball, would you like the backboard removed? I didn’t think so…
With that said, I will see you on the first tee
By Jiro Nakazaki, PGA On 07/26/2011 · Leave a Comment
According to the rules of golf, you are penalized 2 strokes if you hit the flagstick with a putt. When your off the green there is no penalty. Why take it out? The common response to this question is: The ball might hit the flagstick and bounce out. This doesn’t make sense because a ball that hits the pin and bounces out was likely hit so hard that hitting the flagstick was a blessing than a curse. If the ball didn’t hit the flag, it would have rolled further passed the hole.
Short game guru Dave Pelz published his research on this in Golf Magazine (1990′s). After he had a machine and a golfer hit a total of ten thousand putts off the green, his researched found that:
- Machine made 33% more putts
- Man made 18% more putts
Before you chip or putt from off the green, make sure the flagstick is lined up vertically in the hole. There is no penalty for adjusting it. This way the flagstick should not prevent a ball from going in the hole that would have gone in without it. It will only increase your odds of holing out.
If you were playing a game of basketball, would you like the backboard removed? I didn’t think so…
With that said, I will see you on the first tee
