Just like the title says, what do you use, and lets see some pictures. I will post a picture of what I have when I am home later, I have many different coins that I put into play throughout the year.

Explain what it is, how you got it, and for what reason you like or choose the paticular marker.

Should be fun, Cheers.

Mine is a good story

It is an aluminum coin the size of a poker chip, nice and light in the pocket

I won it in a card game when I was 12 or 13

One one side it has a naked girl from the waist up and says "Heads I WIN"

The reverse has a pic of her back and butt and says "Tails you lose"

Good conversation piece

I use the entire net profits from the portfolio of shares I bought several years back.

A 20p coin.

Quarter, because I lose all my other ones.

Hahaha.

Great idea for a post, at the moment I'm using a magnetic one that attaches to my pitch mark repairer. It's from The Old Course St. Andrews and one of my buddies bought it for me as a memento when we played there last October.

I use a nickel. I used to try and only use nickels with "good" years, from the 1960's. But now I'm too lazy to pick those kind out...that and I should probably use ones from the 1980's and hope for the best.

Depending on how i feel that day, i either go with a few quarters i aquired from the 1930's or a poker chip i won on a cruise. I won alot of money one night drinking and playing blackjack on the cruise and saved a $10 chip for good luck. It's not always as lucky on the course though, but it has it's days.

+1 for the 20p
usually because it's the change i have after buying lucozade in the pro shop.

Here's Mine

i just use a tee if it is in the way i move it.

So all the coins on the left side from top to bottom: Canadian Silver Dollar 1981, Canadian quarter 1981, Canadian nickle 1981 ( The year I was born, The silver dollar was a gift, and the other two I picked out from change over the years. Middle colum is an american half dollar 1990 (66 upside down), canadian half dollar 1969, $.10 Euro coin, Melfort Golf & Country Club Marker (My home course), the far right colum is all Canadian Pennies all with good numbers 53, 56, 58.

I usually use the Canadian silver dollar or one of the half dollars cause they are the largest and easiest to see on the green.

I cant post pics right now, but currently (just bought it saturday) ill be using a Nike Marker I got with my Divot repair tool (got tired of losing the cheap ones I use to get) but I use to use a Quarter that I spray painted white... It looked really cool.. so I used that for a while....

1956 silver quarter. Around 1964 they went to the clad type. The silvers have a nice sound when you jingle them. 1956 because that was my year of birth.

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Have had most of these for a while. No particular favorite, what ever bag I'm playing out of for the day and which marker I can find first.

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No idea where it was acquired, but I've been using it for quite some time.

Fifty whole pence?!?

Wow.

In my regular fourball that would be surreptitiously swapped for a 5p coin before you could say 'I've been diddled...'

Dime.

i use a fake Vegas chip (which everyone thinks its real).. or
heads up quarter..

This one:

golden dollars or quarters...damn metrocard machines give you golden dollars as change so i end up using them as ball markers

Great topic. I had always used a store-bought, run of the mill marker and was constantly looking for something unique. Last September I got a new navy blazer and ordered a set of University of Virginia blazer buttons. Ended up with one extra so that's been my marker ever since.
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I use this mostly, if not I use watever coinage I have in my pocket...

a) 1961 nickel, heads up. Jefferson ALWAYS looking towards the cup!
Polish it every week ( for luck!).

J.R.

^^^^ lol you polish it wtf??!!?

I use my wedding band from my first marriage......serious. I had the thing melted and made into a ball marker. Everytime I am playing I chuckle and think what a better use of 14k gold it is rather than still being on my finger and tied to that witch....she hated my devotion to the game. So now everytime I am playing I chuckle that I am playing and she is long gone!

AWESOME!



P.S. - For me... why make it so complicated (regarding a ball marker). Usually just use the snap on button on my Foot Joy glove, a quarter or whatever I find in my pant pockets or in my golf bag...

New T.P. Mills copper ball marker..

if I am playing with guys that don't know me, it is just a matter of time before they ask to see it and ask if it is real gold. When I tell them the story....they always get a good laugh.

Hahahah that is the best thing I have ever heard, I too have a white gold wedding band that is sitting in a box, thank the lord it's in that box, it would be a great reminder of how much better my life is without that gold on my finger.

I use a Canadian $2 dollar coin referred to as a Toony. Easily seen from just about anywhere on the green.

I grab four random ball markers out of my bag before each round. I don't like to fish through my pocket to find one. They're just quarters and the little free plastic markers you get at courses.

I use the quarters unless I'm close to the hole and then I'll use the little plastic ones.

I make my own. This seller on ebay has custom ones for 2.95 or you can make 4 for $10.

I just buy 1 hat clip then 4 markers. She can take any picture or logo you have and put it on the marker. Its pretty decent quality for the price.

I have a couple with pictures of buddies that are in Iraq, and other with my family to remember what is really imporatnt in life.

Here a link to the sellers store
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/GOLF-AND-TSHIRTS__W0QQ_armrsZ1

I usually wear a hat w/ the magnetic brim. (Titleist/Red Sox Marker or Callaway/Chevron Marker)

But I always have this in front right pocket.

I use a Portland 28th Championship PGA 1946 brass ball marker Ben Hogans first major win

I have one of the hat clip ones that I use on occasion, but mostly I use a quarter. Either an '81 quarter in memory of my late brother, or a quarter from the 60's because that's what I'm trying to shoot for. If I'm not making any putts I'll flip the coin or change it out for another one...but I'm not superstitious .

My regular ball mark for the 49ers, Been a lifelong fan and cant stop now.
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I have nice collection my folks brought back from Europe, but until I actually get over there to play the courses
they stay on my dresser.
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bottom centre with the 5.
i'm amazed i haven't lost it yet, but until then i will keep using it.

The round thing in the picture that looks like a ball marker is what I use.

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One of these, usually the first one I grab.

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I use mid 60s quarters such as my favorite 1963 coin.

Please tell me you are kidding and really don't use a tee.

In casual rounds I prefer to use tees unless in someones line. Idk why but always have.

Originally from Canada, I use a Canadian quarter like this one...

I use an old dinner plate like this.

Good thing the plate is big (must look funny in your pocket), with all that green trim along the edge I wouldn't be able to see it on the green
and would probably loose the thing.

I typically use a one-pound coin - primarily because I'm something of an Anglophile, but secondarily because it is heavier and just seems easier to get it out of my pocket. Better than rooting around for a dime or those little plastic markers that tend to get stuck in there one way or another.

I have an Irish 2 pence that ive been using for years now.

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I use this dollar coin from 1974 (my birth year) and also Ike was an avid golfer.
It´s pretty big, so it´s easy to find it in my pocket and easy to see on the green