Besides wicker baskets and pin flags, what else exists?

[Joel_Stewart]

Is there another option aside from baskets and flags to sit on a pin?

[Sam Morrow]

I once played a course (I think it was 6 or 7 holes only) in West Texas where on the top of the pin were old license plates.

[Eric Smith]

Is there another option aside from baskets and flags to sit on a pin?

Windsocks..

[Mike Benham]

... to sit on a pin? ...

There are no pins on a golf course, the USGA / R&A Rules of Golf does not reference "pins", do you mean flagstick?  

[Micah Woods]

Windsocks on flagsticks:


seashore paspalum green at Lanai by Asian Turfgrass Center, on Flickr

[mike_beene]

So it is still a flagstick if it has a wicker basket on it?

[Tom_Doak]

In old 1910-1920 photos of courses you often see no flag on top of the flagstick -- metal flanges with the hole number were fairly common, and wicker baskets showed up in many different locales. 

I've never seen the metal flanges at a course in my travels the past 40 years.  Apart from the baskets at Merion, I've seen wind socks in Hawaii, and odd little pennants a time or two (including LA Country Club).  The very short flagsticks at Secession also stand out as oddities.

[Matthew Essig]

Different form of windsock at Chambers Bay. Used as their logo and US Open logo.

.........Don't know if they are being used this year, though........

[Dan Kelly]

Are there any triangular (yacht club type) flags out there, in the real world -- or are those restricted to graphic illustrations everywhere?

[Andy Treen]

I would say Cabot Links' is a burgee.  How about Wianno Club?  I know its their logo.. is it on the flagstick?

- Andy

[Chris Roselle]

White Clay Creek CC, which is in Delaware Park, has jockey helmets instead of flag sticks.

[Thomas Dai]

Would a suitable replacement for flags at a new course just north of Aberdeen be golden coloured hairpieces!

All the best

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