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What do you keep in your pants pockets when you're playing golf? Or, perhaps phrased better, where do you keep all your "stuff"? Here's my list:

Front left pocket: tees. Usually only two or three Zero Friction tees. Nothing else. I'll put the ball there when I don't want to carry it.

Front right pocket: ball mark repair tool (a few years old), pencil, and a coin or two for marking my ball. Each feels very different, and with only four items in the pocket anyway, I can quickly get the right thing out.

Back right pocket: wallet.

Back left pocket: nothing.

I have a few magnetic hat clips, but I rarely wear them. On my belt I have a belt clip with a ball marker, but I rarely use it - I just like it because it's got the Sand Trap logo and my name on it.

Where do you keep all your "stuff"?

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Right pocket - 2-3 quarters not dated later than 1970's, 2 zero friction tees, small wood tees and ball mark repair tool.

Left pocket - glove when putting or around greens, lip balm.

Left rear pocket - wallet.

Right rear pocket - my yardage book including scorecard, pencil and black Sharpie.

Driver: Ping Rapture V2 9° TFS Stiff | 3 wood: Exotics CB 15° Fujikura HL Stiff | Hybrids: Adams Idea Tech V3 16° Stiff, TM Burner Rescue 19° & 22° REAX Stiff | Irons: Titleist 735.CM DG S300 5-PW | Wedges: Vokey Oil Can 254.10, 258.08 | Putter: Rossa Imola 34"


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I don't keep anything in my left pocket because I usually can't get it out with my glove on.

In my right front pocket I keep 3 zero frition tees, my scotty cameron pivot tool and a Norwegian 5 Kroner Coin that I use as my ball mark.

In my back pocket I keep my stats book and a pen / pencil.

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Dual Point 3 Wood
NPS-1 Irons
Dual Slot 52, 56, 60 Wedges
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Right pants pocket: a couple of tees, a divot repair tool with magnet + metal ball marker.

Left pants pocket: usually nothing, sometimes an extra tee or two and sometimes some change (coins).

Right rear pocket: scorecard & pencil.

Left rear pocket: a "provisional" ball.

Shirt pocket/s: (none)

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I don't like much in my pockets at all. I have a Crown Royal bag I keep in my golf bag in which I store my watch, ring, keys, change, pocket knife, etc... I take this stuff out of my pockets at the car and put them in the RC bag. When I'm done playing I take the tees, ball mark repair tool, etc... out of my pockets and put them in the RC bag ready for my next round.

While playing I keep only a few tees, a ball mark repair tool with ball marker, and a provisional ball in my right front pocket. My money clip is in my left.

Since I started using a bagboy push cart, I find I can keep a lot more of that stuff at the ready on the cart.

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r7 425 Quad 9.5*
V Steel 15* r7 21* 4-PW rac lt CG11 gunmetal 52*, 56*, 60* wedges 2-Ball belly putter


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In my right front pocket I always have a pitch mark repair tool, a 1 and 2 cent coin (I use the 1 cent on putts under 10 feet because I'm looking to 1 putt and the 2 cent coin on putts over 10 feet because I want to 2 putt), at the start of the round I have 1 long tee and 2 short ones although after the first hole this varies and I also have a handkerchief I use for cleaning my ball (not blowing my nose).

In my back right pocket I have my yardage book for the course and I slip my scorecard inside the book and I have a mechanical pencil clipped to the cover of the book.

I have nothing at all in any other pocket.

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Right pocket: 1 tee and my ball marker

Left pocket: glove when putting

*I dont like to have much in my pockets...I dont like when they buldge

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Front right - Coins (usually only silver), tees & Divot tool
Front left - just a pencil
Back left - scorecard & glove (when not using it)
Back right - nothing

I put my wallet, keys and all that stuff in my golf bag before the round. I don't like a lot in my pockets when playing.

Driver: 09 Launcher 10.5
4 Wood: 09 Launcher Steel 17
Hybrid: Baffler DWS 20 Aldila Reg
Irons: AP1 4-GW Steel
Wedges: 588 Gunmetal 56 & 60Putter: Studio Style Newport 2Ball: NXT Tour


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Front right => cash
front left => divot tool, guitar pick for ball marker
right rear => xtra ball sometimes or stat book
left rear => usually nothing

My tee is tucked in my hat just in front of my right ear.

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Right pocket: 1 tee and my ball marker

That is exactly how I play. 1 tee only, no wallet, cellphone, watch, extra balls, etc.

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Right pocket...Divot Repair Tool and Ballzee, a provisional ball if I don't think I will be able to find my ball after a shot.

Left pocket...usually nothing, maybe a tee sometimes or a pencil. I don't like anything in this pocket, especially a ball as it distracts me on my follow through

right rear...wallet and on good days...my playing partner's money...but that is very few and far between.

Left rear...glove on green if I did not velcro it to my bag when grabbing my putter, and possible a small spiral notebook.

In my Grom:
Driver: :nike: Sasquatch 9.5° Graffalloy Shaft-Stiff Flex
FW: :nike: 3 (15°) & 5 (19°) Sasquatch Diamana Shaft-Stiff Flex
Hybrid: :touredge: Tour Edge Exotics Ironwood 21° Adila Shaft-Stiff Flex
Irons: :nike: 4-AW OSS Steel Shaft-Stiff Flex
Wedges: :vokey: Vokey Spin Milled 54 and 60
Putter:  :edel: Basic Series 


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front right - tee, repair tool, ball marker
front left - money clip

everything else stays in the bag or on my push cart.

Titleist 907D1 10.5°
Titleist 906F4 15.5°
Titleist 906F4 18.5°
Wilson Staff Pi5 3-P
Titleist Vokey 56.14Cleveland CG12 60°Scotty Cameron Newport Two


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Fun, interesting question.

Left front - cash in a heavy silver money clip; right front - two zero friction tees and a couple of quarters; left rear - Boy Scout ball and glove when not donned; right rear (when walking) - scorecard and pencil

Watch, wallet, and keys go in the "valuables pocket" in my bag.

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front right divot repair tool which is hooks into the pocket seam. right rear my score card. Left rear for my glove while putting.....
What's in the bag

Driver: Speed LD F Driver 9.5°
5 wood: 909F2 18.5°
Hybrid: EDGE CFT 21°Irons: i5 - 4-pwWedges: CG10 52°, 56°, & 60° degreePutter: Udrainium Doc 15Ball: DT SoLoHome Courses: Spring Lakes Golf Club, Stouffville, ON & Ocean Ridge Plantation Golf, Sunset...

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Interesting topic.

right front - divot fixer, quarter for a ball mark, and chapstick
left front - nothing
back left - nothing
back right - nothing

i dont like to be weighed down


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Right front - ball when not golfing it, divot repair tool w/ attached marker, two zero friction tees.
Left Front - Palm Treo w/ intelligolf at the ready (scorecard and stat tracking), "provisional" ball
Left Rear - nothing.
Right Rear - glove when not wearing it.

In the bag:

Driver: Taylormade Burner 10.5*
3 Wood: Callaway Big Bertha Steelhead III 15*
3 Hybrid: Taylormade Rescue Dual 19*Irons: Callaway Big Bertha 2004 4-10 Wedges: Callaway Big Bertha 2004 W (gap) Cleveland 588 56* (sand) 60* (lob)Putter: Scotty Cameron Circa 62 #6Ball: Top Flite GamerBa...


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Front Right -> iPod
Front left -> nothing
Back Right -> wallet (usually empty except for an occasional $1)
Back Left) nothing

I keep a tee or two in my hat next to my right ear

Driver: 10.5* SuperQuad TP 1st Edition All Black V2 Stiff
5 Wood - 585.h 19* DG S300
Irons: 3-PW S59 Stiff
Wedges: Rac TP 52*, 60* MP-T 56*
Putter(s): Anser 3 TP Black ballGET TO SINGLE DIGITS!Goal: Beat a certain admin that lives in my town


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Right front pocket: 2-3 Zero Friction Tees, ball marker from Blackwolf Run, divot repair tool from Greensboro National
Left front pocket: Spare ball
Right rear pocket: Scorecard & pencil
Left rear pocket: glove (when I'm not wearing it)

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