Ben Hogan
Scarce Merion Golf Club
Course-Used Pin Flag
Let me guess - you thought Merion Golf Club only uses wicker baskets, not pin
flags, right? Well, you'd be wrong.
Offered here is one of the rarest
course-used flags in existence - a course-used pin flag from famed Merion Golf
Club. Because of all the attention Merion gets with its wicker basket standards,
most everyone overlooks the fact that those wicker baskets are only used on 18
of Merion's 36 holes. Indeed, Merion's West course uses rather traditional pin
flags. Offered here is one of those rare course-used Merion flags. While we've
known about these Merion flags for years, and have seen photos of the flags on a
few occasions, this is the first such example that we are aware of that has ever
come up for sale at public auction.