One thing that infuriates me is courses with no distance markers or ones on the ground that you have to search for.

I would even suggest it quickens play by having poles marking the 150 and 100 meters out…as players dont need to go looking for a tiny sprinkler head

They should be standard..and please ont give that oh they dont look nice or whatever because thats utter rubbish

sorry for whinge :)

tot most courses have both actually
tot blue is 150m

The course I play has both. Blue capped poles on either side at 150m. However, in recent months, they have added discs in the ground at 100, 150 and even 200 on some of the longer holes. I have noticed that there is a little difference in the distance (visually anyway), but I feel more confident with the discs down the middle as they would be more accurate.

yeah both is fine

I found many course over east just had the discs and many newer courses are moving away from the poles

They should be standard..and please ont give that oh they dont look nice or whatever because thats utter rubbish

I would prefer a course have an indication of 150m of some sort – but that’s about it

Yes a 150m marker is usually all I look for…..
and generally blue colored
except on par 3s…

At the place that i play, we have 150markers which are stakes with 150 written on them, then strategically placed on the fairways, we have the distances marked on sprinkler heads from about 210m and in.

I prefer the sprinkler head ones – ok sometimes you have to trot about for a little bit to find one, but for me they’re the best.

Of course my bushnell is better than all of them :)

yeah my course had posts at 200/150/100 and marked spinkler heads. This together is a great guide.

My course also has poles at 20,150 amd 100 and sprinkler heads marked with the distance and it’s great. Discs alone really pee me off too.

Distance markers are a blight on the game.

Judging distance with the eye is a skill and IMO, a part of the game that has been taken away. It would be difficult to quantify, but statistically I’d be surprised if people played materially better for their existence – I certainly don’t.

Add to this the delay in play – how often do we stand on a tee waiting while a golfer walks around the fairway trying to find a sprinkler head nearby to give him the yardage. Then he has to pace it out to his ball, do the sums for where the pin is. 2 minutes later he shanks it straight right.

Liz

haha styles, you had to mention your rangefinder again :) I’d poke fun at you but I’ve never tried one, and as a gadget freak, I wish I had by now :(

Most courses I play have the pole markers, but I do quite like the sprinkler markings, they’re generally closer together and make it easier to accurately step out your distance from your ball position. They’re useless when it’s been raining and they’re all covered up though, so the poles are still very useful.

Sprinkler heads are easy to find the area around them is slightly greener and more lush

Well Liz or Your Majesty,this loyal aubject resoestfully disagrees with you.BTW how long have you been playing golf.don’t answer that maam.

Well Liz or Your Majesty,this loyal subject resoestfully disagrees with you.BTW how long have you been playing golf.don’t answer that maam.

The Q.G.U. golfers handbook recommend that courses are marked with stakes or bushes or other natural object at 100m or 150 m but not both. Our course has both & now has G.P.S in thier golf carts . I prefer the 2 lots of markers to 1, & the G.P.S. is fairly handy too .As for these aids slowing down play , no I don,t think so, those players who take time finding distance markings are the type that are normally guilty of slow play anyway.

Try playing with no distance markers at all, on a course that is not your home course. Its bloody hard ! You get so used to your home course – you know what to hit from where. You pull the same club on the same par 3 each time.

Try a round where you eyeball every shot. Give it a go.

That said, my club has distance markers in the middle of the fairway on disks like sprinkler heads, every 25 m from 100 – 225 metres.

Some would suggest that this slows down play. Can,t see why it would myself. In fact it SHOULD help to speed up play.

Distance markers are a blight on the game.

Judging distance with the eye is a skill and IMO, a part of the game that has been taken away. It would be difficult to quantify, but statistically I’d be surprised if people played materially better for their existence – I certainly don’t.

Add to this the delay in play – how often do we stand on a tee waiting while a golfer walks around the fairway trying to find a sprinkler head nearby to give him the yardage. Then he has to pace it out to his ball, do the sums for where the pin is. 2 minutes later he shanks it straight right.

Liz

Apparently Ben Hogan never depended on all these dist markers
i think those days they may not even have them !

But how many of us play like Ben Hogan ?

Dist markers about the most useful invention in golf, and I do not think they slow down play.
these slow shankers you mentioned are naturally slow players anyways regardless of the markers
imagine without the markers they would have paced up to the pin and walk back to the ball n then shank the ball it’s worse isn’t it !!

and Oh so sorry your majesty !
But I think the monarchy in this modern day n age is outmoded, use up resources unnecessary and breed ‘useless’ princes and princess
and should be put in the museum
and Aus should have a president (be a republic) instead of a GG, what a freakin shame ! but then thats a diff thread althogether

yeah my course had posts at 200/150/100 and marked spinkler heads. This together is a great guide.

Likewise, I haven’t got the patience to look for sprinklers so I only use them if I happen to see one but I use the poles all the time then approximate the distance.

our pole colours:
Blue-200
White-150
Red-100

judging distance isnt a skill…..

thats baloney

hitting the distance (once you know it) is the skill

a lot of elderly golfers have cataracts or macular degeneration etc
and judging dist is not real for these folks
hence the dist markers
makes life so much easier
so another reason to use them

the game is difficult enough as it is…why make it dam harder

I’ve been playing 25 years from chopper to single figures and back. Played without markers, played with markers. They slow down play.

Yeah our course has 150 marker poles with a ball that is placed at the top, middle or bottom of the pole indicating whether the pin is placed at the back, middle or front of the green. Its pretty handy. There is also a distance on pretty much every sprinkler head to the green.