Your Golf Superstition

[dklemp3]

Not really a superstition, more of OCD. I have my clubs arranged a specific way in my bag and if I go to pull one out and its not in the proper place it makes me jittery

[CBECH22]

Extra balls in left pocket

Ball Marker (1897 Morgan Dollar), divot tool and white tees in right pocket

 

Yeah, I'm not superstitious or anything...

 

I'm the exact same way but I also have my

Glove go in my back left pocket when I take it off

Scorecard is kept in my back right pocket.

 

 

:cheesy: :cheesy: one of my favorite movies too! Yup! We did just become best friends!

[robrey85]

You never say, "wind", on a calm beautiful day.

[DougNutter]

My only superstition is to not be superstitious.

[oldschoolrocker]

I have to move any tees on the tee boxes out of my field of vision.

[BillyZ2]

My irons won't hit as accurately without iron covers being used while in the bag.

[NavyMustangGolf]

I never step on a birdie. I believe in the after birdie blow up, and if I take the first tee shot after a playing partners birdie, usually its a bad one. I dont mind if someone takes the tee box after my birdie for the same reason, lol.

[L3fty]

1. I never volunteer to do the "tee thing" to determine who hits first. Whenever I flip it, drop it on my driver, or hit with my driver, it points towards me.

2. This is my father's- he refuses to go in the steam room or sauna before a round. he says it relaxes his muscles too much.

3. it's gotta be iced coffee no matter the temperature or time of the day.

[oldschoolrocker]

May have a new one, to me, but so far this season I haven't been using any broken tees I find on 3 pars, instead pulling a new one out of my pocket. Par 3 scores are trending much better.

[Nikwho]

My last shot warming up on the driving range has to be a pure, satisfactory version of my first tee shot. I always stop after the first good shot once I'm down to 3-5 balls. Once I bought a second small bucket just to hit one nice shot prior to play. It takes all of my first tee jitters away. Once I'm abut 5 balls from the end of my bucket and a good shot comes, I walk away from the remaining balls. I almost always leave a few balls at the range.

[altess27]

This is kind of a weird one but I keep a core of a ProV1x in my bag at all times. I found it after being run over by a lawn mower and throughout the round I peeled the rest of the cover off, I ended up shooting my best round to date after finding it. 4 or so years later it's still there and I even move it from my regular carry bag to my moon bag when I decide to switch.

[Webb26]

When I was in high school our team got our first team tournament top 5 placement and I happened to be wearing an Angels hat. Ever since that day, during my high school golf career, I always wore that angels hat. It also happened that our team won our league in two consecutive years as well as me shooting my career low 9 hole round of 4 under.

 

So my superstition is the Angels hat. I also have a thing for using pennies i find on the ground as ball markers.

[ZipinZ]

Will never use a Black "T" and if I see one or a broken one on the T box ..... I'll ditch it as far as I can.

 

Black Voodo Magic/Witchcraft can destroy your game!

 

Edit ... Titleist Pro-V's .....# 3's are good luck, they always find the hole and know how to make Birdies, too!

 

D.

[Mcgeeno]

I only have one...

 

I can't hit a putt when a ball is already in the hole. I have some playing partners who just save a walk and try to wait for me to hole out after.

 

My brain tells me there is only room for one ball hahahaha.

[Spicoli]

No wallet in the back pocket ever...

 

If I eat during the round or at the turn, my score is toast.

[RuffingIt]

- only use a new tee on the first par3

 

- tee'd ball or putting: logo up, side-step facing target.

 

- can't use a ball marker of a sports team thats in season. Example: if the Packers were playing on sunday im out playing, my mind gets distracted every time i put the marker down, and for some reason they end up losing that week. I know...stupid.

[USAF Retired E7]

I can never swing with a "backup" ball in my pocket... It means I have the expectation of losing it. If I happen to have one for whatever reason, or pocket my provisional, I have to toss it out right before I hit my shot. I dunno it's weird I think I'm gonna sabotage myself or something

 

Agreed. I throw it down so I never hit with ball in my pocket :)

 

Long and short tee, divot tool and ball marker in right pocket.

[cbrwn425]

Divot tool always clipped on right pocket with ball marker in right pocket. Never leave phone, wallet or keys in my pockets while playing. Every time I've used a tee that was already in the ground I hit a bad shot so I only use a broken tee that was laying on the ground.

[waterloogolfer]

For about 2 years in high school, the logo on the ball had to be facing straight up on the tee. I would literally step up to my shot and adjust if I think it's just a little off. Finally my coach told me to suck it up and hit the ball on a par 3. Got my first hole in one. Never cared again.

[Shipwreck]

- only use a new tee on the first par3

 

- tee'd ball or putting: logo up, side-step facing target.

 

- can't use a ball marker of a sports team thats in season. Example: if the Packers were playing on sunday im out playing, my mind gets distracted every time i put the marker down, and for some reason they end up losing that week. I know...stupid.

 

I truly believe that if I don't watch a game (any sport except golf) from the beginning, and I turn it on part way through, my team will lose. Happens. Every. Time.

[kejoal11]

my superstition is to never have a back up ball in my pocket. I feel that if i put a back up ball in my pocket that its in my head already that I am going to hit a bad shot. I also make sure I keep my tees in my right pocket and divot toll is always in my left pocket.

[tsmithers]

My superstition is reading other people's superstitions and having them become my own superstitions so I am not reading this thread. I did not read a single post in this thread.

[Petunia Sprinkle]

Any ball that likes the water that much can stay there. F that.

[SadTrombone]

Only one birdie or bogey in a ball. Once I make one (in a tournament) it's on to a new ball.

[Garsenio22]

Extra large coffee before. Large bucket of balls to get loose. Bengals poker chip in left pocket along side a Pocket size club brush to clean grooves before every iron shot. Clean grooves for a clean scorecard.

[ginger718]

I am kind of odd when it comes to this and playing competitive golf, when I am going out for just the heck of it I do not care as much. But for competition I have tees in my right pocket, a 1 dollar coin in my left, and pin sheet in my back right. Carry the card in the bag, and only use sharpie to mark it. I use a dollar to represent one putting, and always mark it tails up because tails never fails. I also always have to have my sunglasses on me whether I am wearing them or they are upside down on my hat. Along with that I only drink water when I am playing, and will only eat candy on the course. Yah idk I'm odd worse things have happened lol

[Shawn Paul]

There are some really good ones here! I know that golfers have to be some of the most superstitious folks around.

 

A new one that I've developed this year is with my wedges. All my clubs always have their proper place in the bag except for the new wedges. I accidentally put them in the bag in the wrong order but I've been playing so well with them that I've decided they can go in the bag however they want, no rules.

 

These new wedges are wild and reckless. Sometimes I'll even throw a wedge in my bag without looking and it ends up sharing another slot with another club. These wedges just have no F's to give. They'd better not try to share a spot with the putter though...

[disco111]

All my change in the left pocket

Left shoe lace double knot

Hat on backwards

Tee behind left ear

 

To date, never hit one up Lee Janzen's wazoo.......

[Dan42nepa]

I will never use a tee on a par 3 that is already in the ground. Today i played with someone who hit a good drive after saying "if only I could hit it straight" Every hole afterwards he said the same thing.. Didnt work in his case but he kept saying it.

[Divot License]

My superstition is too never carry a spare ball in my pocket. I just don't want that sort of bad juju messing with my game.