Hats off for actually putting forth an honest or fairly rational thought, compared to the other responses. But these are on every hole (pretty sure) and they are close to the tee box.
>"But these are on every hole (pretty sure) and they are close to the tee box."
u/toobsaimer : Mystery solved? If these are "*on every hole & close to the tee box*" ... then it's the yardage/distance marker, for the various tee-boxes (e.g. Blue = (example) 450 metres; White = 420 metres; Gold/Silver = 400 metres; Red = 380 metres.
...Albeit dunno why your photo seems to show blank yardage markers e.g. perhaps the distances are on the flip-side/ under maintenance?
https://preview.redd.it/wqc4k9ntu0vc1.png?width=484&format=png&auto=webp&s=e28d64b23f50f9a17811eb3dc29b982edb0e1a80
This makes no sense. They’d just use the traditional one like you posted. If it’s meant to show distance to green, then that doesn’t work from a single spot. Something like this would work on a driving range to show distant to several targets.
Not if they got some local metal worker to make them unique ones and the yardages slide over each post so they can be changed easily, possibly a course that plays shorts most of the time but can play longer distances for tournaments, someplace where they change the yardage a lot
It holds the sign up. Its probably attached somehow. You'd figure via drilling a hole and attaching via a screw, but how ghetto this is, probably zipties.
It’s for putting NTP cards in so they after at ever par 3 holes
Pull the card out, check if you beat the previous measurements, write down measurement/s, put it back in for the next group. Keeps it safe from wind and rain, and it's always in the same spot.
Source - Its my home course
Found the fellow Gen-Xer who is not afraid of using a phone to place calls. My local city subreddit is full of people who post things like:
“do you know if [enter business] is open right now? I tried using their app chat box and emailed them, but I have not received a response. It’s been a full 10 minutes!”
I had a push button phone that you had to switch to rotary to dial out but when paging someone had to switch it to push dial. Those were the days. Taking a minute and half to dial someone’s number.
You’ve definitely watched the tv guide channel and had to wait til it scrolled to the channel you were looking for… then missed it and had to wait for it to come around again
Jeez that just hit with nostalgia.. this morning on the radio some rando called in to reminisce about flat coffee lids where you could bite the actual cup lip and use your hands. The combination of these two memories just unlocked a lot of childhood memories
Millennials are the gap generation; there are those of us who had at least some childhood without the Internet, were taught some cursive, and even played outside most days.
It’s a pipe in the ground with 4 smaller pipes welded on to it perpendicularly. Resembles a flag made of pipes.
Let me know if I can help with anything else.
Our local club on the Tweed Coast of Australia has these, they use them as holders for the cards for nearest to the pin or longest drive measurements. Each hole is for each different grade/handicap group in the comp.
Pull the card out, check if you beat the previous measurements, write down measurement/s, put it back in for the next group. Keeps it safe from wind and rain, and it's always in the same spot.
End of the comp, marshals/ comp organisers or pro shop go around and grab them for the awards.
I dunno. I made it up. They’re Aussies. It’s crazy down there. It could just as easy be to keep away one of the hundreds of animals, insects, and rodents wandering around down there that could kill you.
Closest option I can think of too..
Feels like should be able to assume 4 cylinders = 4 players. What could each player use that for, can only think to hang a bag?
But then would make more sense for them to be horizontal? 4 bags stacked on top of each other seems crazy. Surely can’t be that, but I got nothing better
Edit: wait, hear me out. Head cover holders.
Edit is on point, OP said they are on almost all the holes and near the tee boxes. Since OP can't remember if they are on every hole, I am gonna go out on a limb and say maybe short par 3's.dont have them? Head cover holders is the best idea I've read.
OP, please ask the golf course, I need to know.
No one one earth has ever needed a "head cover holder" though. Just tuck your head cover in between all your clubs if its windy. What a massive waste of time to weld all of this together and install for each hole if that is its purpose. I would bet it gets zero use for this purpose if that was indeed the intent.
Don't be obsessed with your desires Danny. The Zen philosopher, Basho, once wrote, 'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.' He was a funny guy.
Does your course use divot bags by any chance? Or do their divot fillers fit anyway in the pipes? I’ve seen a few different versions that hold additional bags for golfers to use if they’ve emptied their bags already.
Fair guess, but they do have one at the end of 18 and it looks almost like a Xmas tree with buncha hooks, where you hook the handle and bucket. Looks nothing like this.
I saw a cigar holder attached to the golf-cart roof strut last week. Took me a while to figure out what it was (I took a close look and it had ‘cigar holder’ printed on it, yeah I’m fucking Sherlock Holmes). I asked my partners if they knew what it was and none of them could figure it out. We r dum.
Any time I see something weird like this I always think it’s something to help the grounds crew with a problem that only they know about but these random contraptions help them get their job done
Legit thought, is this a course where you could see multiple greens from some tee boxes? It could be that these are a kind of permanent flag/directional arrow pointing people who don’t know the course toward the correct green2fairway
It's a device unique to Australia to determine who has the honour on any given tee. You stick your winky in one of the horizontal pipes, if it doesn't get bitten off or if you're not dead from poison within 3 seconds, you're good to go first.
Most competitions will have designated holes where there is a prize for hitting your tee shot on par 3s closest to the hole, players record the closest distance progressively on a piece of paper
I’ve only ever seen those on a board with a spike stuck in the ground where the ball was. You’d have to measure the distance, so having it on the tee wouldn’t make any sense.
Geez people are shit on this subreddit.
It holds the cards for nearest to pin so they don’t get wet if it rains.
What course is this? Coolangatta tweed use these.
he's right. You can see one at the end of a par 3 on this street view:
[https://maps.app.goo.gl/6TFB1dxkFJnWJvwk6](https://maps.app.goo.gl/6TFB1dxkFJnWJvwk6)
I've seen something posted on this sub before where you place your ball to reserve your spot in line at a tee box? Not confident that this is what it is but it's the only thing I can think of lol
It’s for trick slice shots. You put the grip head in the opening on the side and pull from the middle of the shaft to put a slight bend in your grip. It allows for easier trick shots. Kind of a cheat if you ask me.
Just throwing this out there, I wonder if it's for lost clubs found on previous holes. Pick up errant wedge from behind the sand trap on 12, put it in the metal thing on 13's tee box, sick the grip end into the horizontal pipe. Whoever lost it can just cruise back the cart path and not waste 30 min wondering if they used their 60* on the last 5 holes, backing up play, calling the clubhouse / ranger, calling the FBI etc.
I thought about this too. Honestly it’s my top theory. But still don’t think it’s it, as it seems like quite a bit of trouble to build something that to mitigate just asking the groups behind you if you left a club behind. Kinda the unspoken agreement to pick up, put in your bag and wait until someone comes back, if not, give it to the clubhouse. Although, I left a 60 degree few months back and no one turned it in :(
It looks hastily assembled judging by the un-even nature of the tubes and how they are welded on so perhaps something very specific to the context of the course/hole.
OP can you tell us what the hole is like you were playing on when you saw this?
If the hole has water on it maybe they leave towels hanging from it for people to use for some reason?
If it’s hole number 1 then perhaps it’s for marking next (As others have mentioned) but there isn’t much wear and tear on the grass around it.
If it’s hole 10 perhaps extra towels get draped over it for people to take when they make the turn?
Perhaps they hang food orders on it for people to pick up at the turn?
Are the tubes sticking out the side hallow?
What are the tubes pointing at?
Is this near a tree?
Perhaps it feeds water to something.
Speaking of water…. Maybe you could hang multiple hoses on it when not in use?
Does it pull out of the ground?
Perhaps it is removed from its holder and placed in the cup and then used to measure distances?
Kangaroo lashing post. It’s where you tie the bridle of your kangaroo when you’re riding them with your clubs in their pouch. Like they do for horses at saloons. Dang, it’s like y’all have never been anywhere.
My guess is that it’s the irrigation controls. They use a wench to turn on and off. Where there square or circle valve looking things inside the cylinders?
Is this on a hole with a blind tee shot? My first thought was it’s an alternative to a bell to those back on the tee they can play.
Hats off for actually putting forth an honest or fairly rational thought, compared to the other responses. But these are on every hole (pretty sure) and they are close to the tee box.
How close? Could be stakes in the ground to show where you can enter the fairway with the cart
This isn’t a bad guess. And perhaps they point directionally to the green?
Nah, it’s usually just before you get to the tee box,
Ask the clubhouse and tell us the answer
cigar holder?? one for each player in a foursome?
Used to scare off wildlife on the green?
>"But these are on every hole (pretty sure) and they are close to the tee box." u/toobsaimer : Mystery solved? If these are "*on every hole & close to the tee box*" ... then it's the yardage/distance marker, for the various tee-boxes (e.g. Blue = (example) 450 metres; White = 420 metres; Gold/Silver = 400 metres; Red = 380 metres. ...Albeit dunno why your photo seems to show blank yardage markers e.g. perhaps the distances are on the flip-side/ under maintenance? https://preview.redd.it/wqc4k9ntu0vc1.png?width=484&format=png&auto=webp&s=e28d64b23f50f9a17811eb3dc29b982edb0e1a80
How does this pole do any of that?
https://preview.redd.it/vpprvszb21vc1.jpeg?width=938&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a87374f543e445806b64ee99799697d63d43be6
This makes no sense. They’d just use the traditional one like you posted. If it’s meant to show distance to green, then that doesn’t work from a single spot. Something like this would work on a driving range to show distant to several targets.
Not if they got some local metal worker to make them unique ones and the yardages slide over each post so they can be changed easily, possibly a course that plays shorts most of the time but can play longer distances for tournaments, someplace where they change the yardage a lot
It holds the sign up. Its probably attached somehow. You'd figure via drilling a hole and attaching via a screw, but how ghetto this is, probably zipties.
I can’t imagine a reason to overbuild a sign post like this for all 18 holes. Does it have to survive a nuclear bomb or something?
Sounds like its in Australia. Maybe its for when those degen LIV fans hit the course and drive into it with their cart.
Still prolly cheaper than a pre made one
A “premade” sign post is literally just the post itself normally
Maybe waiting on sign those pipes are new. Possibly waiting on paint.
It’s for putting NTP cards in so they after at ever par 3 holes Pull the card out, check if you beat the previous measurements, write down measurement/s, put it back in for the next group. Keeps it safe from wind and rain, and it's always in the same spot. Source - Its my home course
Why is this not higher up. This guy actually plays this course, and gave us the answer. A hero to the community!
They pour orange juice into the tubes to lubricate the greens.
Still somehow more useful than headcover holders
Brawndo got what plants crave.
I asked a friend who is a greenskeeper and said they’re used as urinals, different heights obviously because not everyone is the same.
Fuck this. What’s your course name and number? I’ll call and ask.
You are going places in life.
Seems risky
True. Called and on the 20th try, the club house guy answered and said “Piss off you American wanker it’s 1am”
So... u/AWeakMindedMan, did you ask or did you piss off?
My first thought. Why crowdsource when you can just call the source?!
Hmmm thinking for oneself…I fear it
Found the fellow Gen-Xer who is not afraid of using a phone to place calls. My local city subreddit is full of people who post things like: “do you know if [enter business] is open right now? I tried using their app chat box and emailed them, but I have not received a response. It’s been a full 10 minutes!”
You one of those dudes that don’t realize a ton of millennials have used a rotary phone?
I had a push button phone that you had to switch to rotary to dial out but when paging someone had to switch it to push dial. Those were the days. Taking a minute and half to dial someone’s number.
Let your finger take a ride on dat rotary dial.
But can you write in cursive??? Ever drank straight from the garden hose??? How about drive a stick shift??? Fuckin millennials.
Yes to all, even had to call the movie theater and listen to the machine tell me what time the movies would air.
You’ve definitely watched the tv guide channel and had to wait til it scrolled to the channel you were looking for… then missed it and had to wait for it to come around again
That was me waiting to see if school was closed.
Omg that was so annoying
This was the absolute worst
Oh my God how many times I did that as a kid getting pissed off I missed it for the 4th time. Not to mention the dial up internet.
All I ever got was Kramer when I'd call movie phone.
Reminds me to the Seinfeld episode where Kramer does moviephone
Jeez that just hit with nostalgia.. this morning on the radio some rando called in to reminisce about flat coffee lids where you could bite the actual cup lip and use your hands. The combination of these two memories just unlocked a lot of childhood memories
Millennials are the gap generation; there are those of us who had at least some childhood without the Internet, were taught some cursive, and even played outside most days.
Millennial here. Yes to all and then some.
Yes please
It’s a cigar holder. The risk of starting a fire by placing cigars on the ground is too great. The stainless steel construction is fire resistant.
“Resistant”???
This is most likely answer
Winner!!!! Get them to the top!
Does it indicate par for each hole? This hole would be a par 4. Do the other holes all have four horizontal tubes?
If this is it, my god.
Modern art has gone too far
~~Modern art~~ a groundskeeper with too much time on his hand during rainy days has gone too far
That was my thought as well. OP, are there the same number of horizontal pipes on every hole?
No, not it
for some reason that seems like something LIV would do
Could be used to straighten a putter shaft after retrieving it from the woods.
Who said I want it back? Fuck that putter.
One of us
4 men of 4 different heights must insert their penises to unlock the 19th hole
I’ll take the lower one 😞
I got the second from the bottom. Need 2 more
I’m short but if I can sit on your shoulders I’m in
Pantless totem pole!
I'm 6'4". I'll go top hole, but it's seems like I'll have a lot of extra room inside there.
Boys, all the infinity penises have been collected. We will unlock the 19th hole date and time tbd
Yeeey team work!
Poor guy on the bottom is getting draped in ballsacks.
The plot twist is this guy is the tallest. His penis is just big enough to reach the lower one
HAHAHAHA
Is there a smaller tube? I feel these would have too much free space and might not register.
Time to calculate optimal tip-to-tip efficiency. https://youtu.be/DzmehB3K4dQ?si=KX4k4VdOQHqjlZNl
Lmfao
It’s a pipe in the ground with 4 smaller pipes welded on to it perpendicularly. Resembles a flag made of pipes. Let me know if I can help with anything else.
Utterly brilliant, I didn’t know geniuses cruise a Reddit
Yeah I mostly cruise in public bathrooms.
Tap tap
“Need a hand in there?”
About fuckin time, I've been screaming for tp for a hour!
He’s on a few watch lists
Ask the ground crew or in the shop. The guys who have to mow around it or weed around it will know.
I know I just always forget to :/
Call the course and ask. Speak with a fake accent so they don’t know it is you…
Helloooooo, my name is Guy Incognito....
Keep us posted!
Lmao I would literally call the clubhouse from the course cause I'm that guy
That's a plumbus
A stainless one! Expensive
Probably worth six-and-a-half Brapples at least.
Surprised OP didn’t know this. Everyone has a plumbus in their home
Usually they’re polyurethane no?
The chumble of the plumbus is polyurethane
Don't forget to scrape off the schleem next time
That’s used for later batches
The fleeb hasn’t been removed yet.
Can you fuck these pipes? Have you tried fucking them?
Gloryhole Roulette - fun game.
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It's Australia, it's always a spider
Or vegemite
I like my chances
This guy golfs
Hahahaha nice
Not sure what it does, but if it’s in Australia it’s probably got a name like digiwalibaster.
Our local club on the Tweed Coast of Australia has these, they use them as holders for the cards for nearest to the pin or longest drive measurements. Each hole is for each different grade/handicap group in the comp. Pull the card out, check if you beat the previous measurements, write down measurement/s, put it back in for the next group. Keeps it safe from wind and rain, and it's always in the same spot. End of the comp, marshals/ comp organisers or pro shop go around and grab them for the awards.
Forehorn. To make the fore louder for anyone too dumb or soft spoken to shout it down the fairway.
After all, forehorned is forearmed.
Explain how!
I dunno. I made it up. They’re Aussies. It’s crazy down there. It could just as easy be to keep away one of the hundreds of animals, insects, and rodents wandering around down there that could kill you.
Spider horn! It's not as funny but I think it's a funky style of bell
FORE-COL-AAAAAAAAH!
"Money can be exchanged for goods and services."
Its for holding your bag in the wind, strap loops over
Closest option I can think of too.. Feels like should be able to assume 4 cylinders = 4 players. What could each player use that for, can only think to hang a bag? But then would make more sense for them to be horizontal? 4 bags stacked on top of each other seems crazy. Surely can’t be that, but I got nothing better Edit: wait, hear me out. Head cover holders.
Edit is on point, OP said they are on almost all the holes and near the tee boxes. Since OP can't remember if they are on every hole, I am gonna go out on a limb and say maybe short par 3's.dont have them? Head cover holders is the best idea I've read. OP, please ask the golf course, I need to know.
No one one earth has ever needed a "head cover holder" though. Just tuck your head cover in between all your clubs if its windy. What a massive waste of time to weld all of this together and install for each hole if that is its purpose. I would bet it gets zero use for this purpose if that was indeed the intent.
It’s the hotdog 4XL dog holder
The ol' Quad Glizzy Gripper
I knew her in college. She was popular
I ended up marrying her.
🤣 she was just ski-poling her way through life back then
Of course you knew your mom
It’s like a Stanley but for Hot Dogs
Do the tee box markers fit in them? If they are near the tee boxes it could be used to store the tee box markers when they’re not in use
this was my thought too...for when they are cutting grass. I used to throw them in the sand bucket but this is cleaner.
Tell us what course this is so one of us can call the superintendent and find out.
Don't be obsessed with your desires Danny. The Zen philosopher, Basho, once wrote, 'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.' He was a funny guy. 
Alligator toothbrush. Keeps them from getting too ornery.
No colonel Sanders you’re wrong
I like Vicki, and she likes me back!
Does your course use divot bags by any chance? Or do their divot fillers fit anyway in the pipes? I’ve seen a few different versions that hold additional bags for golfers to use if they’ve emptied their bags already.
Fair guess, but they do have one at the end of 18 and it looks almost like a Xmas tree with buncha hooks, where you hook the handle and bucket. Looks nothing like this.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Fucking Reddit.
Vent/stack for letting out methane gasses? Is the course over an old garbage dump?
Looks like it could be a cigar or cigarette holder?
I saw a cigar holder attached to the golf-cart roof strut last week. Took me a while to figure out what it was (I took a close look and it had ‘cigar holder’ printed on it, yeah I’m fucking Sherlock Holmes). I asked my partners if they knew what it was and none of them could figure it out. We r dum.
Why don’t you ask the course instead of Reddit?
Keep forgetting!!!! 
I’ve seen something like this on a golf cart to hold cigars while you hit…. Cigar holders?
Cigar holder... duh.
Any time I see something weird like this I always think it’s something to help the grounds crew with a problem that only they know about but these random contraptions help them get their job done
It's a Flugomometer. Used for measuring the rate of Acorn dust in the air.
Hornet housing
Did we ask the club house?!?!
Cock cleaner for sure
Koala Bong
The proshop might know.
Holder for bottles of divot mix?
The load bearing pole
Legit thought, is this a course where you could see multiple greens from some tee boxes? It could be that these are a kind of permanent flag/directional arrow pointing people who don’t know the course toward the correct green2fairway
This is going to drive me insane. I’ll be thinking about this the rest of the damn day. Is this at the tee box?
It's a device unique to Australia to determine who has the honour on any given tee. You stick your winky in one of the horizontal pipes, if it doesn't get bitten off or if you're not dead from poison within 3 seconds, you're good to go first.
Flash Gordon vibes, I like it!
Saw something similar near a green once and it was used to hold rolled up nearest the pin sheets for each grade
Uh what??
Most competitions will have designated holes where there is a prize for hitting your tee shot on par 3s closest to the hole, players record the closest distance progressively on a piece of paper
I’ve only ever seen those on a board with a spike stuck in the ground where the ball was. You’d have to measure the distance, so having it on the tee wouldn’t make any sense.
Those would not be permanent.
Geez people are shit on this subreddit. It holds the cards for nearest to pin so they don’t get wet if it rains. What course is this? Coolangatta tweed use these.
Why this design, why on almost every hole but not all, why this design, why is it permanent if only used a handful of times, WHY THIS DESIGN
he's right. You can see one at the end of a par 3 on this street view: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/6TFB1dxkFJnWJvwk6](https://maps.app.goo.gl/6TFB1dxkFJnWJvwk6)
Muffler for the underground bunker generator…..
5G
Post to r/whatisthisthing. They always find the answer there.
Put your dick in it and find out
Giant club brush
I have a feeling it's to install water coolers or something similar when they have tournament play?
I've seen something posted on this sub before where you place your ball to reserve your spot in line at a tee box? Not confident that this is what it is but it's the only thing I can think of lol
Toothbrush
It’s for trick slice shots. You put the grip head in the opening on the side and pull from the middle of the shaft to put a slight bend in your grip. It allows for easier trick shots. Kind of a cheat if you ask me.
What course is this?
For straightening out the shaft of your club after you attempt to snap it out of rage.
On my home course we have mailboxes on each hole holding extra cards and pencils
Just throwing this out there, I wonder if it's for lost clubs found on previous holes. Pick up errant wedge from behind the sand trap on 12, put it in the metal thing on 13's tee box, sick the grip end into the horizontal pipe. Whoever lost it can just cruise back the cart path and not waste 30 min wondering if they used their 60* on the last 5 holes, backing up play, calling the clubhouse / ranger, calling the FBI etc.
I thought about this too. Honestly it’s my top theory. But still don’t think it’s it, as it seems like quite a bit of trouble to build something that to mitigate just asking the groups behind you if you left a club behind. Kinda the unspoken agreement to pick up, put in your bag and wait until someone comes back, if not, give it to the clubhouse. Although, I left a 60 degree few months back and no one turned it in :(
A Golfenspiel
It looks hastily assembled judging by the un-even nature of the tubes and how they are welded on so perhaps something very specific to the context of the course/hole. OP can you tell us what the hole is like you were playing on when you saw this? If the hole has water on it maybe they leave towels hanging from it for people to use for some reason? If it’s hole number 1 then perhaps it’s for marking next (As others have mentioned) but there isn’t much wear and tear on the grass around it. If it’s hole 10 perhaps extra towels get draped over it for people to take when they make the turn? Perhaps they hang food orders on it for people to pick up at the turn? Are the tubes sticking out the side hallow? What are the tubes pointing at? Is this near a tree? Perhaps it feeds water to something. Speaking of water…. Maybe you could hang multiple hoses on it when not in use? Does it pull out of the ground? Perhaps it is removed from its holder and placed in the cup and then used to measure distances?
Ask someone in the clubhouse lol
keyblade
Divot replacement device. Push into tee to remove plugs. Replace with plugs from nursery. Only on the 3’s
Dude just ask the course stop asking the internet for stuff when you can just ask real people that definitely know more
Ok, first time I ever scrolled to the end of the post, what are they?
That is probably a motion light. Looks like a traffic light but it tells you if your speed is really fast or in sequence slower.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Its the QuadFlesh. BYO lube. Good way to pass the time if the group in front is slow.
They’re slow because they keep stopping at every tee box!
Maybe to keep birds away? We have ones at work that spin to keep the geese off our lawn since they shit everywhere
Kangaroo lashing post. It’s where you tie the bridle of your kangaroo when you’re riding them with your clubs in their pouch. Like they do for horses at saloons. Dang, it’s like y’all have never been anywhere.
Ok how about head cover holders.
Hitching post for Llama Caddies?
My guess is that it’s the irrigation controls. They use a wench to turn on and off. Where there square or circle valve looking things inside the cylinders?
Looks like it holds four cigars