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Video Tutorial: Tending the Flag

Written by  Andrew Wild on Friday, 10 June 2011
Andrew Wild, general manager at Sandford Springs Golf Club, explains how to tend the flag and when it's appropriate to do so.




I've got my golf ball just off the putting green, and I've now got three options: I can either have the pin left, have the pin out, or have it tended.

If I were on the green, I'd only have two options - having the pin out or having it tended.

It's very important when you tend the flag to take hold of it so it's not making any noise. Hold the flag so your feet are as far away from the hole as possible so you're not going to cause any damage, and as the ball approaches you can just lift the flag and move away.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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