[W.H. Cosgrove]

Klein forget those damned Spruce.......I say plant 'Dwarf Cedars' and then watch them grow.  

"Home of the worlds largest 150 markers" makes for a nice logo on our hats and serves as a greater icebreaker on those long and tedious golf trips.

I particularly enjoy the  process of removing these eighth wonders of the world when they have grown half way across the fairway and contain endangered western squirrel fart beetles.  

Unfortunately, they seem to also attract cold winter lightening.  This has killed and destroyed many of them.

What a shame!

[Adam_F_Collins]

I don't mind barber poles at 150 - small plates or very small red and blue stakes in the fairway at 100 and 200. I like the "red white and blue" code for yardage and flags. It's simple and common - and gives enough information without completely taking away the art of estimation and feel.

At Bell Bay in Cape Breton, they have yardages marked on the cart paths - which I thought was an interesting method of combating slow play.

Yardage on every sprinkler head is too much information - convenient, but not necessary.

[Top100Guru]

NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[David Sneddon]

Slightly off-topic, but has anyone every seen sprinkler heads from outside say... 230 yards that read things like:
"No shot"
"Lay up"
"It's a 2-iron, Mr. Woods"
etc.

Can't remember which course but:

"Don't even think about it"

[Rick Shefchik]

Slightly off-topic, but has anyone every seen sprinkler heads from outside say... 230 yards that read things like:
"No shot"
"Lay up"
"It's a 2-iron, Mr. Woods"
etc.

Can't remember which course but:

"Don't even think about it"

I hate those cutesy messages on sprinkler heads 250+ from the green. HATE them.

I'm sure it says more about my lack of a sense of humor than it does about the wacky jokesters who install them, but there's just one reason I want to know how far I am from the green in that situation: I want to know what club to hit to my ideal layup spot. "Dreamer" doesn't help one bit.

Would it kill a course to put "275" on that sprinkler head, instead of "Forget About It," so I'd know that I need to hit a 5-iron, rather than some other club that might carry me into trouble or leave me at a bad yardage?

Obviously I'm not always that precise, but I can usually stick it pretty close to the 100 yard plate if I know how far away I am from it. And I'd rather know that than be amused by some stale gag on the sprinkler head.

[Kyle Harris]

Rick,

How about both?

"256 to the middle, so fuggetaboutit"

[Mike Erdmann]

Elkhorn Valley up in the middle of nowhere in the Casacde Mountains of Oregon has bird houses for 150 yard markers.  Story is that when the course was built, the owner didn't want yardage markers.  Well, I guess years of listening to the bitching and moaning of players finally got to him and so he relented, but holding fast to his belief that yardage markers are "for the birds"....he put up birdhouses.

[Don Dinkmeyer]

Tree markers at 150 are okay but seem harder to gauge when more than 25 yd either direction.

The "visible" post at 100-150-200 would be "ideal", but i've never seen this.

Assuming you buy the premise that knowing the distance is acceptable. I do.

[W.H. Cosgrove]

Mike those bird houses at elkhorn weren't what got him buried behind the second green were they?

[Brad Klein]

Redanman, why am I not surprised?

[peter_p]

Cos,
No. It was those dang state bureaucrats and enviros that fought him all the way

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