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Do y'all have any weird quirks or preferences? For instance, I only prefer red, white, or blue tees. And yellow golf balls. I cannot drive a white golf ball. I just can't do it. Now a yellow one, drives are solid. White one? Slice, hook, anywhere but where I want it.

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Driver: :macgregor: Jack Nicklaus persimmon driver
Irons: :mizuno: MP33 forged blades, 3-PW
Putter: :seemore: FGP
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Weird phobia: I have to find a broken tee for irons and hybrids off the tee box! Anything else throws the earth off its axis!

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For reasons that I can't explain, I like to throw my ball in to the tee box area as soon as I get there. Then I fish out the score card to mark the previous hole. It's like having the ball on my person when I mark the card is bad luck or something.

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Repair other peoples pitch marks!

Can't help myself, they're getting worse too because the grounds getting softer!


Me too!  After I putt, if I have time, I will fix as many as I can.  I don't hold anyone up doing this.

Scott

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I hate colored tees. Only natural for me. I'm also particular about my ball marker. I use an Irish coin, I'm of Irish descent,  minted the year I was born. I keep a backup in case I lose the current one. I'm not comfortable using anything else.

cubdog

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I use two sizes of a special brand of tees. That's the long, and short of my quirks.

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A whole bunch of Tour Edge golf stuff...... :beer:

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I have to use a broken tee on all par 3s. If I can't find one on the tee box, I'll pull one out of my pocket and break it.
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My biggest quirk is that I will threaten my putters if they perform poorly. Example, "One more putt like that any off to the the basement with you."

I actually play four different putters, (Ping B60, Ping Anser 2, Odyssey White Steel 2-Ball, and Odyssey White Hot XG #9), and will periodically put a different one in my bag, but only when the current putter has a bad day or two.

Drivers: Bag 1 - TM R11 (10.5°); Bag 2 - Ping G5 (9°),
Fairway woods: #1 - TM RBZ Tour (14.5°) & TM System 2 Raylor (17°); #2 - TM Burner (15°) & TM V-Steel (18°)
Hybrid: #1 - TM Rocketballz (19°); #2 - Ping G5 (19°)
Irons: #1 - Ping i3+; #2 - Hogan Edge  (both 4-pw, +1" shaft)
Wedges: #1 - Ping i3+ U wedge (52°) & Ping Eye 2+ BeCu (60°); #2 - Ping ISI Sand BeCu (52°) & Cleveland CG11 lob (60°)
Putters: Ping B60i & Anser 2, Odyssey White Steel 2-Ball & White Hot XG #9, Lamkim Jumbp grips
Golf Balls: Titleist Pro V1, Bridgestone B330, Callaway SR1, Slazenger Grips: Lamkin Crossline
Golf Shoes: Footjoy & Adidas; Golf Glove: Footjoy StaSof®; Golf Bag: Ping Hoofer
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I have about ten ball marks. I won't use the same one two rounds in a row. And I organize them based on the score I shot with them - lowest score goes furthest to the right. (I tend not to use the ball marks on the left so much...)

I won't add up a score until the end of a round, and I prefer not to know my score while I play.  (I'm still bad enough that I usually have lost track before too long.)

I start every round with a new ball. If I lose it, I play an old ball.  (If I lose that... I'll put a new ball back in play if I'm playing well, otherwise it's another old ball.)

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I won't use painted tees... I either use the natural wood ones or white plastic ones. I also use a short tee for irons or hybrids/woods (usually a broken tee, but I recently bought a pack of plastic tees that included some short ones).

Tristan Hilton

My Equipment: 
PXG 0211 Driver (Diamana S+ 60; 10.5°) · PXG 0211 FWs (Diamana S+ 60; 15° and 21°) · PXG 0211 Hybrids (MMT 80; 22°, 25°, and 28°) · PXG 0311P Gen 2 Irons (SteelFiber i95; 7-PW) · Edel Wedges (KBS Hi-Rev; 50°, 55°, 60°) · Edel Classic Blade Putter (32") · Vice Pro or Maxfli Tour · Pinned Prism Rangefinder · Star Grips · Flightscope Mevo · TRUE Linkswear Shoes · Sun Mountain C130S Bag

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I don't think I have any major quirks but maybe you should ask my golf buddies.

I guess the biggest quirk is I use a Check-Go Pro to find the balls balance point and draw a an alignment line.  I use a green marker on 80% of the balls and a red marker for 20%.  The green are for normal play and I keep one with a red line in my pocket for when I have to hit a provisional or drop due to a lost ball.

Joe Paradiso

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good post !!!!!!!

1) I only like White Tees.... on a Par3 I use small in length tee's, and on driving holes I use the longer tee's

2) When driving the Ball I like the brand of ball label  (Normally Titliest) facing toward me as I'm a lefty

3) When I walk and carry my bag or use my pull cart I always place my bag behind my back, never behind the ball (LOL)

just a few of mine !!!!!

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The number of the ball I played used to be very very important to me. Out of a regular sleeve 1's and 4's are the only good ones, 2's not so good (no one putts), 3's worst (3 putting).

Been golfing over 40 years, I can remember going to the golf shop when I was in HS and college and buying a dozen balls, taking the sleeves of 2's and 3's out and replacing them with 1's and 4's from another box. You had to check each sleeve, I can remember opening a box and they were all 3's (someone like minded to me had been there first)

Titleists would rarely come in 5-6-7-8 boxes, and especially rarely in 9-10-11-12 boxes. Didn't play the 9-10-11-12's, don't remember why. Hardly ever saw them.

The absolute best and  coolest of all balls were the Titleist 7's and 8's, yet the 5's and 6's were as bad for you as the 3's.  You'd be in the golf shop, and see a box labeled 5-6-7-8 and your heart would skip a beat, but as always you had to check the sleeves, a lot of the time someone had already swapped out the 7's and 8's and the box was full of 5's and 6's (yuck).

If you played a Titleist 7 or 8, you were a golfer to be feared. Only low single digit players had them. You couldn't play them unless you were a low handicap, a least it seemed that way.

One time I went to the counter to buy a dozen 1's and 4's, the guy checked each sleeve and said that this box was improper and I had to buy 2's and 3's also. I asked as innocently as I could what he meant, he said that people came in and took all the good numbers, left all the bad numbers, and no one wanted to buy the bad numbers. They must have had loads of 2's and 3's that no one wanted to buy---

This was in SE Denver in the 1970's and 80's, at Wellshire and Dave Cook's, Gart Bros, etc. Must have been a local thing, haven't lived there for a long time though.

Now I play balls with numbers greater than 10, not a big deal, but I still cringe when I see a 2 or a 3.

And you can't play any ball you find, we all know that once a ball gets lost, it develops a taste for it, and wants to get lost again ;-)

Steve

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I don't look for balls that I know are OB or in a water hazard. I certainly will never carry a ball retriever. I hit one out yesterday and my caddie found it. Told him to keep it but he doesn't play golf so he put it back in my bag. I gave it to a bag room kid when I was done. But I will take the full five minutes to search for a ball in play. I hate losing a ball in play.

Bill M

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