Last year playing with my normal foursome, we were playing a par 4 with an elevated green. I had a pretty good drive and was laying about 150 out. We noticed that the flag stick was not standing in the hold, but laying on the green. I was already standing by my ball and decided to go ahead and hit as I hadn't been playing well anyway and thought I would be lucky to get anywhere near the hole anyway. At the same time, the other 2 in our foursome, drove up to the green side to place the flag stick in the hole. And just to put a finish on a bad round and to make it a perfectly bad day, I hit a nine iron that hit 2 ft right of the hole, took a right turn and hit the bottom of the flag stick, keeping it out of the hole. That pretty much sums up my luck. I took a tap in birdie on what should have been an eagle.