Playing at the Cambridge, Country, Club June 2023. I had just joined and number 15 is 160 yard par three playing downhill at an elevation change of about 50 feet. I choked up on my png I 27 iron and hit the ball. When it came down, it flew straight into the hole and I heard it hit the flag stick, but it made me think that I hit the tree to the left of the green. My partner told me no it went right in the hole so when I drove down to the green to look sure enough, there was my ball it had broken the flagstick at the base and.