Could you please let me know your thougths on the use of post to mark 150 from the green.We have had white post with a blue top they have recently been painted green with blue top, which makes them hard to see

White post with blue top looked too much like an out of bounds marker I think ??

it doesn’t really matter what colour they are does it as long as you know where they are and if you think they are an out of bounds peg in the middle of the course you shouldn’t be playing

A number of courses have out of bounds markers “in the middle of the course” to deter players cutting some doglegs or using the wrong fairway as a more direct way to the green at the end of a dogleg. But I agree Titch – they are handy when you are playing on an unfamiliar course. Perhaps paint them pink.

fluro pink at that but seriously from all the 150 pegs i have seen they all have the number 150 on them so i just find it hard how you can get confused

ysenrab

Re 150 metre posts. The purist view is that any marking of distances into the greem (posts at 150 metres, 100 metres, ‘yardages’ on sprinkler heads) simply should not be. In reality, with speed of play a major problem, with increasing numbers of ‘visitors’ playing club courses, on which golfers are often forced to remain, there is value in allowing players to have a strong guide to distances and therefore club selection.

I personally prefer distances marked to front of green. And note that with any course intended for tournament play, all distance markings should be obliterated or removed for the tournament itself.

As to colouring of posts: doesn’t matter in my view providing it is easily identified for what it is – not OOB or hazards. Some courses use a standard plant or bush.

Cheers Tony

Tony,

I think it should go a bit further for tournaments, get professionals to rely on visual distance judgement, i.e. no course notes with distances written down (it would make for more entertaining play). No sense getting rid of the distance markers if the players can go on the course the day before and write down all the distances, 6 in 1 half a dozen in the other.

Tony

Why can’t all clubs set a uniform standard and either have all markers to the centre or to the front of greens.

Played a course the other day with all markers to the front , really annoying and time wasting especially when the vast majority of clubs measure to the middle.

(1) Your view please ?
(2) How do we rectify this issue ?

Distances to the front of greens is clearly the best system, no idea why any course does it to the middle.

Tony will get back to you within the next 12 months

Distances to the front of greens is clearly the best system, no idea why any course does it to the middle.

Tony will get back to you within the next 12 months

Spring Valley’s markers are to the front edge. When you don’t play a course very often, it is just a pure guessing game from out in the fairway. Even the average mug golfer can see if the flag is roughly front, middle or back. You don’t have to be a scratch marker to know your distances. As others have already stated, the time wasted trying to workout distances is laughable, when the markers are obscure or incomplete.
Jon…

Boonie why is that the best system ? It seems the majority of clubs do not agree. I don’t mind either way, but at least if the distance is to the middle you have less margin for error if the green is very long.

Boonie why is that the best system ? It seems the majority of clubs do not agree. I don’t mind either way, but at least if the distance is to the middle you have less margin for error if the green is very long.

Agree, middle of green the correct way to go.

My local club measures it to the middle of the green and I reckon that is the way to go. Imagine you are playing a course for the first time and are standing 5m under the pin and are 150+ metres out. There is no way you are going to know whether the green is 20 or 60m long and if a m’ment is to the front of the green it is useless because you don’t know how long it is to the back of the green. At least if its measured to the middle of the green, you have a starting point and know that if you hit the mark you won’t be left with a putt that is the length of the green.

Our course has 100 & 150 m markers measured to the centre of the green .150 markers are blue ,100s are white Have a local course that uses a specific type of bush as 150 marker
As for taking out markers for tournament play ,For Von-Nida tour events the P.G.A remarks the course measured from the front of the green.Many courses have distances painted on sprinkler heads (great idea )How do you remove them for one tournament