flagstick

[flag-stik]

noun

Golf.

1. pin.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flagstick¹

First recorded in 1925–30; flag ¹ + stick ¹

Example Sentences

However, things could have been much worse for the Dane, who birdied the 17th and then remarkably eagled the 18th - blading his attempted chip from just off the green and watching it cannon into the flagstick before dropping in the hole.

From BBC

He hit two trees and a flagstick on his way to a level-par 70 and produced a wondrous shot out of the rough on 17 to find a bonus birdie.

From BBC

Kisner then provided the late belly laughs with a high-handicapper mishit out of a bunker on the 14th that crashed into the flagstick and flew across the other side of the green, leading to players and fans ducking for cover.

From BBC

He birdied the first after his second shot from deep rough hit the flagstick and he had a run of three successive birdies from the fifth, including a chip-in from greenside rough on the sixth.

From BBC

“I could have easily bogeyed 18 and been back to even par, and then, that ball on 1 could have hit the flagstick and went anywhere and I could have made bogey from that,” McIlroy said.

From Seattle Times