It might sound like a daft question to suggest that golfers can be too focused on their intended target but follow this instruction from PGA Teaching Professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer and they may give you some understanding that aiming at the flag is not always in your best interest.

So pay when we play golf we know we want to get the ball in the hole but one of the problems that I see from a lot of amateurs when I take them out on the golf course is they go a little bit over obsession with the flag and are always playing to the flag on every single shot is a good thing or is that a bad thing.