Custom Golf Flags, Boat Flags or Family Crest Flags Make The Perfect Father’s Day Gift
Looking for a Unique Gift for Dad? It can be hard to find a good gift for Father’s Day, especially if your father doesn’t need another tie. The fundamental paradox of Father’s Day gifts is that most fathers want something that they can use, but that they tend to simply go out and buy things when they realize that they need them. That means that the trick to Father’s Day shopping is to get your father a gift that he doesn’t know he needs. Flags, from custom boat flags to sports flags to heritage flags, can be an excellent way to accomplish that.
Custom Golf Flags
Golf is a very popular sport among fathers, and golf flags are an important part of the game. A golf flag can convey a lot of information on the course, so every golfer is familiar with them.
Customized golf flags are common at tournaments and other events, but a custom golf flag can also be a great gift for individuals. Some particularly avid golfers like to use them to decorate their homes, while others like to use them in private practice areas.
A custom golf flag makes a particularly good gift for Father’s Day because it can be made to suit anyone’s personal tastes. A flag made out of your father’s favorite colors with his name on it is always going to be more touching than a generic flag.
A few design features are especially common:
- Large, simple designs are best to make sure that they can be seen at a distance.
- Complimentary colors are an easy way to add variety to a design while making sure that it looks good.
- Custom flags should be personal. Use your father’s name, birthday, and favorite symbols in the flag.
All of those options make it easy to design a golf flag that is up to par with any other gift on the market. It’s sure to turn out well as long as you take the time to think about what should go into the design.
Custom Boating Flags
It’s a rare boat that doesn’t have at least one flag. Some boating flags, such as signal flags, are purely practical. They make a great gift for someone who needs to replace a set that has started to wear out, but there are a lot of other, more personal options out there.
People have been flying customized boat flags since pirates sailed the Caribbean. Your father probably isn’t a pirate, but he’ll still appreciate a chance to make his ship stand out from the rest of the fleet. A flag that looks like a Jolly Roger might even be a good choice, if he wishes that he could just sail into the sunset and live like a pirate.
Designing good custom boat flags is easier than you might expect. A boat’s name is a good place to start. A simple design that displays the name on a colorful field, but the name might also inspire an image. If the boat it named after an animal, a place, or an object, then putting a picture of that thing on the flag is a great idea.
Every famous pirate, sailor, and explorer has had his own colors on his ship’s mast. Customized boat flags are a great way to keep that tradition alive and make sure that your father can be proud of his boat.
Custom Family Crest Flags
If there’s one thing that fathers have in common, it’s the love that they have for their families. Custom family crest flags are a good way to honor that love on Father’s Day with a symbol of his family history. It can take some time and research to find the right crest for the flag, but that effort makes it all the more touching to receive the perfect flag.
The best place to start your research is with your father’s relatives. Even if he doesn’t know his family history very well, the odds that one of his relatives has done some research into it are good. Even research that only goes back a few generations can be a huge help, and it’s often enough to discover the family crest on its own.
Discovering the family crest is reasonably easy even if you can’t find anybody who has already done their own research. A simple Internet search will often turn up everything that you need to know as long as you know your family’s name and the general area that it came from.
Gettysburg Flag Works will happily guide you through the process of designing a custom flag for that extra special gift for dad, any other gift-giving occasion or even for yourself!
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