Comments on: The Other Stuff In Your Bag

By: Green Friendly Golf Belts: Looking Good, Doing Good | The Sand Trap

Green Friendly Golf Belts: Looking Good, Doing Good | The Sand Trap — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:19:56 +0000

Sometimes a clever idea solves more than one problem. The belts from Green Friendly Golf not only hold up your pants and look good doing it, they make fixing ball marks and even marking your ball a lot more convenient.

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:11:02 +0000

Jack, I take my cues on repairing ball marks from my course's superintendent, and "thick prongs" and "raising dents" go against all that he stands for.

By: tartanjack

tartanjack — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:46:31 +0000

I like the flask idea a lot! And I stand by the pivot tool. Here's why:

The width of the prongs is totally inconsequential. Come on, you ball just gouged a hole in the green! If anything, they require fewer penetrations to fix the mark.
You must be playing much harder greens than I do. Unless your ball simply peels back the sod, the ball leaves a dent that must be raised and then tamped down with the putter. The pivot tool is perfect.

We'll compare techniques at the Newport Cup!

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:24:44 +0000

The Cameron ball mark repair tool is one of the worst tools you can use to repair ball marks. In fact, it may do more harm than good! Proper repair technique does not involve any tools that "push up" ground, nor does it use tools with such thick prongs.

By: Mitch Good

Mitch Good — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:12:47 +0000

I live in Indonesia, where it rains all the time. As such, I carry two umbrellas at all times. One for me, and one for my caddy and clubs. I also carry two or three towels,about 6 gloves, and rain cover for the bag.

Caddies that carry the bag (some use a pull cart) tend to complain about the extra weight, but I have never heard one complain about the extra umbrella once the rain started.

By: Preston M. Moretz

Preston M. Moretz — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:12:36 +0000

I walk and carry my bag, so I try to keep it as light as possible...not always an easy task. I have a Sun Mountain 3.5 bag, which is pretty light to start with. But, in addition to my 14 clubs, I carry the following:

* About a dozen golf balls, plus a sleeve tucked away in the large side pocket.

* A clip-on pouch filled with tees of varying length.

* 2-3 golf gloves.

* A pouch to hold my valuables: wallet, keys, change, cell phone, etc.

* A pouch that holds a couple of Sharpies, 2-3 divot repair tools, coins for marking my ball on the greens, a tube of chapstick, and a couple of extra softspikes.

* A small bottle of Advil and some packets of Claritin.

* A scorecard/yardage book holder.

* A Rules of Golf book.

* A Line-M-Up golf ball marker for drawing straight lines on my golf balls to assist in putting.

* A tube of sunscreen.

* A bottle of water (two bottles if it's really hot and humid). My bag has a special water bottle pocket.

* Six granola bars.

It may seem like a lot, but I've actually reduced the amount of things I carried, so it's not so bad anymore.

Preston

By: Stewart Broadley

Stewart Broadley — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:43:03 +0000

I keep a stainless steel flask filled with some nice single malt scotch in my bag. Living in Canada and playing in some cold weather early and late in our short season, the warming effect of a fine whisky is not to be underestimated!

Stew.