Spartan Flag Company - A Known Community Member - Will Have Flags Flying at U.S. Open
Known Community Member Spartan Flag Company of Northport, Michigan was featured today in the Traverse City Record Eagle in a story about how their manufactured golf flags will be at each of the eighteen holes at the U.S. Open.
Spartan Flag Company is a third-generation family business in Leelanau County. They have been making flags, pennants, burgees and banners since 1950. They are one of the largest employers in the Lake Michigan harbor village of Northport, Michigan.
Spartan Flag Company is famous for all the pennants that fly at every golf hole on golf courses all around the world - which will now include the 2008 U.S. Open!
If the Flag is Still Flying it must be a Spartan Flag!
Stop by their Known Community web page at: www.known.com/spartanflag to learn more about The Spartan Flag Company and see pictures of their facility and flag making process. Give Casey a call at 231.386-5150 to discuss with her the flags they can make for you!
From the Traverse City Record Eagle article:
Flags made the old-fashioned way
Northport business caters to golf courses
By Al Parker
Special to the Record-EagleNORTHPORT — Every day is flag day at the Spartan Flag Company.
But it’s not the kind of Flag Day that Americans will celebrate June 14 when they pay respect to the Stars and Stripes.
In fact, the Spartan Flag Company no longer produces American flags.
“About 90 to 95 percent of our business now is golf course flags,” said Casey Kilcherman, who took over ownership of Spartan Flag about four-and-a-half years ago.
“We produce them for a company in Iowa who distributes our golf flags all over the world. We’ve gotten real busy with golf in the past year.”
Spartan Flag is set to get national attention this week when their flags fly over the U.S. Open at the Torrey Pines Golf Course in southern California.
“We did 1,000 flags for the U.S. Open,” said Kilcherman. “We did one run that was numbered one through 18 for the course, then a second order that was just numbered 18 for souvenirs.”
