What's Your Ball Marker?

[ColinMB]

I'd love to get the hat thingy... to be honest I have a bunch of cheapo markers but I never seem to have them with me when I need them, so I usually end up using a penny. ;)

[ben619]

I've got a few from St. Andrews, I've got one that my friend bought me from Carnoustie, and another friend bought me one from Pebble Beach.
What do I use?
It's really a case of which one I pick up off the desk, it's just pure guess, usually I just don't look, grab one and go to the course. :P

[gus orviston]

Recently I started using a magnetic marker - one from Dalit Bay resort/golf course in Malaysia. Next I will be getting a USA flag magnetic marker when I visit the NW US next time, as I am an Expat and live in Shanghai China.. I want to show some color over here!

[Steven McFarlane]

Either any money thats in my pocket, or a maxfli marker on the side of my glove

[b0nk3rs]

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

I was working junior golf clinic yesterday and one of the kids had a set of those, i was hitting shots with them on the course and it was amazing how far and accurate i was hitting them. those clubs arent bad at all lol.

[Andy_Mac]

wow.... night of the living thread...

in any case, I have a titleist cap with a magnet in the bill w/ a Kentucky interlocking UK w/ wildcat ball marker stuck to it.

[bogeyme]

Many moons ago, my family took a trip to Disney in Florida (I can't ever remember if it's World or Land) and I picked up a Mickey Mouse ball marker. It's always on the handle of my putter so I never have to worry about leaving it at home. I'm sure the hole on the top of the handle isn't for that purpose but the little "spike" on the back of the marker fits perfectly into the hole so that's where it stays. After years of use the hole as worn a little so I might have to move the marker to another safe keeping spot so I don't lose it. I also have some plastic ball markers from many different places. I've got a couple from a Kentucky Wildcats set my dad and step mom bought me for my first birthday after they moved to Kentucky. Too bad I'm a Vols fan (along with OSU). I've also got some with my cousin's companies logo, and then I've just got some plain ones that came with a golf coozie type thing that I got. The "coozie" looks like a golf bag. I use it as a pencil holder.

[Andy_Mac]

I've got a couple from a Kentucky Wildcats set my dad and step mom bought me for my first birthday after they moved to Kentucky. Too bad I'm a Vols fan (along with OSU).

Send em to me... a vol fan having UK stuff is just plain wrong and dirty.

[bogeyme]

Send em to me... a vol fan having UK stuff is just plain wrong and dirty.

My Uncle (a lifelong Volunteer from and still lives in TN) seen the towel that came with the set and said "Atleast it's the right Conference if nothing else."

[lordhamster]

Forgive me I'm very new to golf, but I'm very surprised that so many of you are using such large (siverdollar, casino chip etc) size ball markers. I actually wondered about this very issue when I got my Odyssey putter, it came with a casino chip as a ball marker.

I was under the impression that the purpose of the ball marker was to be as small as possible and flat to avoid the other player's balls possibly hitting yours while they are putting. Do these huge ball markers ever get in the way, or do you just put out if your ball is in someone's line?

[bogeyhitter25]

I just use the marker that came with my glove, or maybe a coin of any kind.

[Lemay427]

Forgive me I'm very new to golf, but I'm very surprised that so many of you are using such large (siverdollar, casino chip etc) size ball markers. I actually wondered about this very issue when I got my Odyssey putter, it came with a casino chip as a ball marker.

You should always ask the other players if your mark is in their way regardless if you use the smallest mark possible. I prefer others to use at least a quarter sized object as I can see them when I am walking around the green. I am too involved in my game to worry where everyone hit there shots. You can move your mark, using the putter head as a guide, out of the way of the person who is outside your ball. You will move the mark back once they have putted with the same method of using the putter head as a guide.

I use a 2006 PGA mark

[lordhamster]

At my level and the level of my partners, "out of the way" isn't always out of the way. :)

[x-forged]

I use pennies.

[b0nk3rs]

sometimes i forget some of these posts are from years ago, but anyways i use a regular ball marker you stick in the ground with my team logo from high school.

[QWKDTSN]

I use a magnetic cap clip that holds a quarter-sized US Coast Guard emblem ball marker.

[Snake]

1943 steel pennies

[mikelz]

Really shiny Thomas Jefferson quarters