Over the past few years the prices of certain flags have gone through the roof, more specifically flags from the 1st two majors that Tiger Woods has won - the 1997 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club (ANGC) and the 1999 PGA Championship at Medinah Country Club. 

As a result of these rare flags there are a few sellers selling replica SILK flags from tournaments, more specifically from all Golf Majors over the years.  Here are a few things to look out for when buying a flag:  (1) Be careful of closeup pictures of flags, unless you can see the whole flags there is a good chance it's a fake.  (2)  Most of these silk screened flags are printed on blank flags manufactured by Prestige.  The problem is not that of Prestige because they date stamp the flags and they have actually manufactured flags for various majors so that adds to the confusion.  The one thing to always look for is the date stamp code on the flag, e.g. 09-00 would indicate it was manufactured in September 2000.  The fake flags have this date code clipped so people can't verify that it was manufactured recently and not an official flag sold at the tournament.

There is one seller I've seen regularly selling fakes under 3 or 4 different id's (not exact but reference id's .. ncaabas, justagolfgy, jaebook, jnholding - all are based in Georgia).  This guy takes turns selling under the different id's so people don't always realize it's the same seller.  If you take a look at this sellers feedback you'll see it's less than pristine.  This seller specifically is buying recently manufactured blank screen flags from Prestige and then screen printing any logo he wants to produce these fake flags for the various majors over the past few decades.  This seller removes the tag or clip off the date so people don't see it wasn't sold at tournament time but manufactured at a much later date.

In the end, it's one thing to pay a premium on an authentic flag but why would you want to pay a premium on a fake.  By not doing your homework and paying that premium price on the replica, all it does is fuel the desire of the seller to keep screwing the public. 

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