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Craig Sweet

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Re: Weekday pin positions
« Reply #25 on: Today at 10:16:15 AM »
Imagine a club tournament and the pro shop is suddenly determining where the holes will be and the person that's been determining hole locations all summer is reduced to looking for white dots on the green....

Rob Marshall

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Re: Weekday pin positions
« Reply #26 on: Today at 10:26:32 AM »
Imagine a club tournament and the pro shop is suddenly determining where the holes will be and the person that's been determining hole locations all summer is reduced to looking for white dots on the green....




Pro shop should be involved to some degree. They are the ones who have to field all the complaints about bad pin's.
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Joe Hancock

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Re: Weekday pin positions
« Reply #27 on: Today at 11:01:08 AM »
Imagine a club tournament and the pro shop is suddenly determining where the holes will be and the person that's been determining hole locations all summer is reduced to looking for white dots on the green....




Pro shop should be involved to some degree. They are the ones who have to field all the complaints about bad pin's.


Who should the definitive authority be that decides what is a “bad pin”? The pro shop, unfortunately, hears a lot of complaints from golfers that shouldn’t be complaints.
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Carl Johnson

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Re: Weekday pin positions
« Reply #28 on: Today at 11:19:42 AM »
Normally I don't think the pro shop should be involved with pin positions.  Isn't that the greenkeeper's job under the direction of the green committee?  Naturally the pro shop will get questions because they're more accessible than those responsible, but no one should give them any heat for the pin positions.  Mostly the pro shop is not going to know why the pins are where they are.  Right? 

Jim_Coleman

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Re: Weekday pin positions
« Reply #29 on: Today at 11:39:24 AM »
   I’m pretty sure at my course the pro shop only gets involved in choosing pins for important events -  m/g, m/m, c/c etc. However, if there is a bad pin on a given day, the pro shop will (and should) get the call. Someone from the shop will investigate, and if he agrees, will call the super. It almost never happens.