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[Roland of Gilead]

Vendetta7, on 23 June 2011 - 03:41 AM, said:

-My bag (I always carry) only goes on the right side of the ball.

I do this as well.

When I address a putt I take a decent breath, exhale and look at the hole, focusing on the distance. I only hit the putt when I'm close to running out of that same breath. It's not exactly a superstition but it makes me feel very steady through the stroke.

Edited by Roland of Gilead, 24 June 2011 - 10:39 AM.

[smithjohnjr]

I have routines but my supersition is clothing.  If I play bad in something, i will not wear that combo again...

[596]

Wow........some of you people are strange as sh*t!!!!!!

Really?  Really.......you guys actually do all this stuff, as routine or superstition?  

Dang.....I actually feel totally not normal.....I don't do anything as rountine or superstition. I just go hit the stupid little ball as best I can each time.....done.

[CCCakumbra]

If I hit a poor drive, that tee is not used again until I forget which one it is.

[JCG!!!!!!]

jbrunone, on 23 June 2011 - 10:23 AM, said:

nitram, on 23 June 2011 - 06:35 AM, said:

I don't wash my balls. I'll wipe 'em down with a wet towel but no washer.

Yes! I CAN NOT use a ball washer!! Refuse too

I also cannot  use a ball washer. I will automatically make a bogey. Another superstition I have is if i break a tee on my tee shot I will bogey the hole. Regardless of how good my shots are..

[RRFireblade]

I've ALWAYS been passionatly anti-supertition.

If things are going well I go out of my way to induce 'bad luck'. Literally. I feel like I need to prove that I can beat badluck and still play well.

I'm the guy people are always yelling "DONT JINX IT !" at.  

[tbomb]

Always play a ProV1 numbers 1 or 3's...

Always marked my ball with two lines above and below the word Titleist.

Scotty Cameron divot tool, and ONLY ONLY ONLY use tee's that are 2 3/4's inchs. Any higher or lower messes up my world.

Always have more then 2 balls, and never more then 5...I dunno, a lot of balls just makes me feel like I'm going to need them all, haha.

I really feel like everything else is normal, I don't do anything wild imo...

[Chaz370z]

I don't have any extreme superstitions. Some simple things I do are always tee off towards the right, and never think about the shot too much.

And I always play as if I only have 1 ball so I can't loose it.

Edited by Chaz370z, 25 June 2011 - 08:27 PM.

[cpriceAP2]

I always carry an orange Zero Friction tee in my right pocket but only use natural wood tees, no paint.  Other than that, nothin'!

[SpinMill75]

I carry one tee in my right pocket along with my old Spanish coin that I use as a ball marker......not really a superstition, just a habit.

[otto6457]

I only use Texas quarters to mark my ball.  I have always used a quarter since I was a kid, but never a particular year quarter or anything.  Then at State Mid-Am qualifying several years ago I shot my best ever competitive round and I was using a Texas quarter I got in change out of a Coke machine.  I figured it had to be the quarter so I haven't been without one since.  Wound up collecting over 50 of them so I'll always have one in case I lose one.  I keep 3 of them in my bag all the time.

[slprince67]

A few years ago I bought a cup of coffee before a round, got back a 1967 quarter in change....the year I was born.  Shot 67 that day and now that is the only coin that I use to mark a ball.  With the fear of losing that coin I bought a roll of uncirculated 1967 quarters but haven't had to use them.  I only mark it heads up.....I use balls marked #1 first, #4 second and black out #2's and #3's.....

[mroletta]

Lol, I don't have anything particularly superstitious the way other people on hre seem to have.  

My only caveat is that I seem to hit better when I'm the last one off the te box, which unfortunately, doesn't go over well all the time.

[mav52]

Interesting thread, I really never gave it any thought till now.  But I would say a St Andrews brass ball marker my father gave me when I was 16 and that was 40 years ago.

[Yepyukon]

Not sure if it is a superstition or not, but I put a line on my ball but never use it to putt....I don't know why I do this, but have for years.

[dmilt23451]

Just wanted to let you all know I will gladly take all of those "off" numbered balls for you guys - Dont care if they are 1's, 2's, 3's or 4's.
;;

[RRFireblade]

Yepyukon, on 26 June 2011 - 09:42 AM, said:

Not sure if it is a superstition or not, but I put a line on my ball but never use it to putt....I don't know why I do this, but have for years.

Not superstitious but certainly strange.

[suprnva]

I always play my balls in the following order, sleeve by sleeve: 4-2-3-1.  I don't like even numbers so I get them out of the way first.
I can't have anything in any pockets other then my right hand pocket.  And in that pocket, at all times, I have to have a pencil, divot repair tool, tee and ball marker.  Even when I'm wearing a ball marker on my hat, I need one in my pocket too.

[tbomb]

Goes to show golf is a mental game, as if we didn't already know that.

[katz]

I never ever pick up a broken tee.  If I do, bad shots are on the horizon.  Even if the tee looks okay, I won't touch it just in case.  
Always mark the ball heads up and use quarters from the 1960's.  Anything in the 60's is a good day!

[Pnuke]

I wear my belt buckle on my right side instead of in front when I play. My grand father taught me to play when I was in elementary school and he did this so I thought you were suppose to when you played golf. Now I just do it because I feel like I'll shank everything if I don't. If people ask I tell them its so I can feel my right elbow touch my side on my downswing.

[JLTD63]

I only have one superstition...no #1 balls off the first tee.  My Dad told me once when I was young that he never used #1's off the first tee, so I just adopted that!

Some of thsi stuff really isn't "superstitious" IMO...I mean, I take my glove off between shots but that's because I don't want it to get sweaty and I'd like to avoid the Michael Jackson one-glove look tanline.  I also put my tees and coin in my left pocket, but that's cause I'm a lefty and can't reach into my right pocket with a glove on.

But the #1 ball deal, definitely weird!

[mesegrn]

I think it is bad luck hit another person's new club before they do! I just bought a buddy of mine a new driver on the Bay and it arrived today. I was going to play today and he asked me if I was going to try it out. I want to hit that i15, but not before him, bad bad karma!!!! I always mark with a quarter and use the same divot tool, ALWAYS!!!!

[rodo04]

I always mark my ball with a quarter, years 1972 or less. I'm using one from 1967 at the moment. When marking the ball, always heads up with the face pointing toward the hole so it can see the line.

[KiwiBoy]

Mark the ball tails up backwards towards the hole. My theory being that I have to keep my head down when I am putting and my tails up as in I have got my second wind.

[jwill203]

Always use a quarter that has my birthday year on it as a ball marker.

[flipstah]

I have this weird obsession with the color orange so my putter grip, tees and golf balls are orange. Also using a half-dollar as my ball marker

My glasses are orange too... This is sickening. Still doesn't help with my swing though!

Edited by flipstah, 28 June 2011 - 10:48 AM.

[fearnobogey]

Yikes....

1.  Glove in the back right pocket.
2.  Tees, coin, ball and divot tool in front right pocket.
3.  Three long zero friction tees and three short tees to start the round.
4.  Only thing allowed to be on the left side are a pencil in the front and a scorecard in the back.


I know there are a few more.

Edit:
Coins: I have one gold dollar and everything else has a connection to me and my birthday year.  French coin from my birth year.  Portuguese coin from my birth year. Quarter from my birth year.  Quarter from my home state.

Edited by fearnobogey, 28 June 2011 - 10:59 AM.

[dok84]

I only play high numbered ProV1's

I once found a 13 which I managed to play for 6 straight rounds before I snapped it into a ravine.

[richard t]

Two bad shots from a club and it's 'fired' for the day. It cannot play anymore for that round. Clubs that don't behave must go to 'time out'.