For All The Golfers Out There

[Martin3203]

What do you use as a ball marker?

 

[Knickerbocker]

challenge coin.

 

[amsgpwarrior]

British pound. But now I will be using my Tat challenge coin. Thanks for the tip knickerbocker.

 

[TreeFrog Frank]

Uhm... you're assuming I ever get close enough to the hole to be in the path of someone else...

 

[Fitze55]

British pound. But now I will be using my Tat challenge coin. Thanks for the tip knickerbocker.

really, those are chunky?

i use coins as well, usually foreign but thin.

 

[CO Smokes]

Regular little plastic ball mark. Nothing fancy

 

[iCraig]

Got a magnetic ball mark from the golf course I first worked at as a kid. Loved playing that course and still cool to have something from it even though it's changed names now.

 

[Knickerbocker]

really, those are chunky?

yeah, i like it because it's different and no one else uses them. they are chunky and big and always the biggest ball marker. i'm not out there playing scratch golf tho so i dont really care how it looks lol.

 

[Martin3203]

Just found this

Uses:
Divot Tool
Cigar Cutter
Cigar Holder
Ball Marker

 

[ATL]

Quarter, top of Washington's head points to the hole.

 

[amsgpwarrior]

really, those are chunky?

i use coins as well, usually foreign but thin.

Yep. I like cause they are heavy and stay in your pocket usually. If it's in the way I just move it. But it sucks for whoever hits it while chipping

 

[Jfire]

A magnetic titleist marker thats on the bill of my titleist cap.
Jfire
Something like
http://m.golfgalaxy.com/PAPMICOEEELAPFEK/Product?ad_id=GoogleBase&key_id=PAPMICOEEELAPFEK_GoogleBase

 

[Cigar Cowboy]

A Tatuaje S&S Coin. Thanks Hendy!!!!

 

[Dave]

All these 35 years of golfing and I thought that the purpose of a ball marker was so that if your ball is in another player's line, you could mark the spot so they don't hit your ball - and you could replace your ball on 'exact' spot.

Maybe I've been wrong. It appears nowadays that a for some, a ball marker is more of a look-at-me prop. I completely get iCraig's sentimental value, but it is a real ball marker. I always figured anything thicker than a dime was tacky and/or distracting.

 

[Cigary43]

50 years of golfing and I use a quarter...it's big enough to let me get a line when I stand behind it.

 

[Jfire]

All these 35 years of golfing and I thought that the purpose of a ball marker was so that if your ball is in another player's line, you could mark the spot so they don't hit your ball - and you could replace your ball on 'exact' spot.

Maybe I've been wrong. It appears nowadays that a for some, a ball marker is more of a look-at-me prop. I completely get iCraig's sentimental value, but it is a real ball marker. I always figured anything thicker than a dime was tacky and/or distracting.

That's why I've always used the hat marker. It's thinner then a dime and regular marker size. and sticks right to the bill of the hat like its made to be there.

 

[Red Raider]

I also use a ball marker that is on the brim of my hat. It os slightly larger in diameter than a quarter and a little thinner than a dime. Marking my ball, aligning my putt then placing the ball back per its marked position with the stamped logo along the intended path os the routine for EVERY putt I take. It's just something that has become second nature and habit.

Can you guess what is imprinted on my ball marker?

 

[orangedog]

i usually just use my memory... ("That's about where it was...")

 

[shadowcam]

I used a coin given by my sister that reads, "Kiss my Putt".

 

[Cigar Cowboy]

All these 35 years of golfing and I thought that the purpose of a ball marker was so that if your ball is in another player's line, you could mark the spot so they don't hit your ball - and you could replace your ball on 'exact' spot.

Maybe I've been wrong. It appears nowadays that a for some, a ball marker is more of a look-at-me prop. I completely get iCraig's sentimental value, but it is a real ball marker. I always figured anything thicker than a dime was tacky and/or distracting.

The purpose of a ball marker is also to allow you to clean your ball and line it up for a straight putt. A larger ball marker helps keeps people from walking on your line, allows for easier reads if you step farther away for a good read and also makes it harder to fall out of your pocket and get lost. I also keep a cheap flat marker in my pocket incase the marker is in someone elses line.

I hate when people use a little tiny ball marker that hardly anyone can see and then they yell at you because you stepped on their line. Or you have to ask them over and over again "where is your marker?" Most everyone is going to large markers these days. Poker chips have become very popular.