Goforth & Golf

Ball Markers

A ball marker is used to mark your ball on the green when you are not putting.

*You are only able to mark your ball on the green. *

To properly use a ball mark, place the mark down behind your golf ball in order to pick the golf ball up and still have its location marked. Then when you replace the ball, put the ball back in front (or wherever it was in relation to the coin when you picked it up) and remove the coin before putting.

This allows you to clean the ball and line up the golf ball for putting. It also gets the ball out of the way of other golfers until it is your turn to putt. This keeps someone from hitting your golf ball or causing others distraction.

Under normal conditions you cannot temporarily pick up your ball anywhere else on the course.

Most of the time you will mark your ball when you get to the green with the other players are also on or within a few yards of the green. The only time you might mark your ball while another player is not on the green is if they are chipping and your ball might be near their line to the hole.

For example: If Jake hits his ball on the green from 120 yards, he would not run up and mark his ball until the other golfers had hit their shots from similar yardage. If one of the golfers had just a chip within about 20 yards of the green, then Jake might mark his ball.

As the chance for someone to hit the ball becomes higher, the more chance you would mark your ball.

Sometimes even a ball marker can be in another players way. If this happens, you can use your putter to move the ball mark a club length away to get it out of the other players way. Just be sure to remember to put it back to its original marked location before putting.

There are tons of different types and styles of ball markers: