What's Your Ball Marker?

[iacas]

For the past, oh, decade or so I've used two coins: a mexican something-or-other and a 10 franc piece from France.

A pal recently visited Germany, so he brought back a 1 euro and a 2 euro piece, so I'll begin using those too. All of them are two-tone (silver/gold), which I like.

What do you mark your ball with? (Please, nobody say "a tee" and be serious!)

[Rafcin]

$1 dollar gold (or rather yellow ) coin.

[sbrl9014]

Usually a regular ball marker, but in tournaments and in HS golf matches always a silver sheckel (israeli) that my granpa gave me at the golf course when i was a youngster.

[UpandDown]

2 Euro coin, too. I like the heft, size, color.

[Finn07]

I have about eight quarters in my golf bag, before the round I grab two or three and stuff them in my pocket. When Im on the green whichever quarter I grab is the one.

[georgep]

I like nickels, mainly for their size and visibility. Plus, the Lewis and Clark version has an ax and hoe(?) that kind of look like crossed golf clubs.

At one of the courses where I occasionally play, there's a story about one of the pot game players ("Squeeze," so named for the way he milks the putter grip before a stroke). He hit one close and went up to the green to mark his ball that was potentially blocking the hole for the others (the pot game is a scramble held every day at the same time with the same cast of characters). He took a long time marking his ball and then stepped off the green. None of the others hit it close, so they intended to use his shot. When they got up there, however, they couldn't find the mark.

"Well heck," said Squeeze. "I thought that beetle was dead."

When he'd found that he didn't have a coin to mark the ball he'd used a japanese beetle he had stunned, but not killed.

[kalbracht3]

i just got my john daly marker to go with my john dlay clubs lol :)

[You're Away]

My mom brought me a ball marker back from Hawaii that's pretty cool. It about the size of a silver dollar but thinner...red on one side and white with an american flag on the other.

Chris

[ezmoney5150]

I know this is probably gay but I always had a problem getting a ball mark out of my pocket so I bought one of those magnet ball markers you put on your hat. I used to play on a Saturday morning 18 hole league at Pine Hills in Hinkley, so it has the course name on it.

[chingali]

They haven't been in circulation here in Australia for over 15 years but I still use 1 and 2 cent coins. If the putt is more than 10 feet I use the 2 cent coin because I want to 2 putt, under 10 feet I use the 1 cent coin for a 1 putt. I've never used a 5 cent coin, a 5 putt would not be good.

[prutkows]

  chingali said:

They haven't been in circulation here in Australia for over 15 years but I still use 1 and 2 cent coins. If the putt is more than 10 feet I use the 2 cent coin because I want to 2 putt, under 10 feet I use the 1 cent coin for a 1 putt. I've never used a 5 cent coin, a 5 putt would not be good.

lol, interesting theory.

i usually just grab a ball marker from the pro shop before every round. i always end up leaving them in my pocket and running them through the laundry anyway.

[aquacooled]

as stupid as is sounds I used a small polished rock that I found last week next to my car.. thank god because I left my maker in my pants and like prutkows I washed it.. hahaha

[NCGolfer]

I use a Looney and/or a Toonie. The Looney is a canadian one-dollar piece and a Toonie is the two-dollar piece. I always have a dime or nickel in case I'm close to the hole and don't want to have a gargantuan maker in someone's line.

[ragontona]

I use a 50 yen coin from when I served in Japan back in the mid-90's.

[Jeepthrills]

I use a 1994 quarter. That was the year my older son was born. I also cary a 1998 quarter for my younger son. If the putting gets bad I may need to put the 1994 in a short time out.

[cdriver]

I use a Susan B Anthony silver dollar, or a brass range ball token I left in my bag from several years ago.

[kalbracht3]

  ezmoney5150 said:

I know this is probably gay but I always had a problem getting a ball mark out of my pocket so I bought one of those magnet ball markers you put on your hat. I used to play on a Saturday morning 18 hole league at Pine Hills in Hinkley, so it has the course name on it.

i have one :)

[ragontona]

I've got one of those hat clip things too, but I don't use it. It's just on there.