Different Coloured Flags

I played at Doncaster Town Moor GC yesterday (Friday 28th Nov) and I found out that they have a system of coloured flags that tell you where the hole is on the green, back, center or front.

A white flag means the hole is at the back of the green, a yellow flag means the center of the green and a red flag means the front of the green.

They are also installing marker posts, 100 yards, 150 yarsd and 200 yards on the par five holes.

I'm quite happy with this but what do you all think?

Russ

It's quite common on a lot of courses Russel, usually confined to the better ones in my experience.  Only really helpful if you know the course and the greens in my opinion.

I would like to see both as standard on all courses.  If players don't want to use them they can just ignore them.  Neither costs the earth either.

my course (gainsborough) has been using the different coloured flags this year and they are a godsend,our greens are quite big so from front to back there could be a 3 club difference.also they have markers in the ground every 25 yards with the distances to the front,middle and back of greens.only trouble is it makes it a bit to easy and you struggle with distance judging when you play different courses

I heard somebody from the office at my golf club say that they didn't want to many yardage markers as it would stop people buying yardage books from the pro shop.

This is a load of rubbish!

I've played many a course that has good yardage markers on their course, but I still buy a yardage book if I haven't played that course before.

A course I played at (sorry, can't remember which one it was!) had a little shrub as a yardage marker.  Each side of the fairway, half way between the fairway and the rough, there would be a shrub.  Easy to spot.

Russ