Poker chips are for poker tables

[golfday]

34 minutes ago, Warrior42111 said:

So if a poker chip not in your line but a couple feet left or right is a distraction what about some standing 20 degrees left or right lining up from the other side of the green? How about 90 degrees? or should we just all stand 140 degrees away then walk back up to green? 

 

That won't slow play down at all.

 

 

 

I've never had a 10 foot putt where a person stood 5 feet in front of me and two feet out of my line. If they did, I'd ask them to move.

 

None of the anti-chip crowd has an issue with people standing in reasonable places. The issue is that chips go down in places where a person would never stand and where you would never place a flagstick.

[courcy75]

I use foreign currency I pick up along the way. Currently using a Costa Rican Colones. 

[Nels55]

I golf with several guys who use poker chips or similar sized markers.  All are very polite about and usually dig out a smaller marker if it looks like the marker might be in someone else's line.  I don't care one way or the other and if the poker chip is in my line I simply have them move it.  For myself I like to use the little white push in markers that a lot of courses give away for free.  A lot of times whoever is putting will simply tap the push in down and putt right over it.

[2bGood]

3 hours ago, courcy75 said:

I use foreign currency I pick up along the way. Currently using a Costa Rican Colones. 

Same, but with a twist. I use change from some bucket list courses I have played - like a 50P form the Old Course. By beer with cash, see the coins - what a great memento 

Edited June 15, 2022 by 2bGood

[scott406]

1 hour ago, golfday said:

Also, the chip must be at least $100. If you're going in, you've got to go all in.

Excellent point

 

This is definitely the way

The only way

Edited June 15, 2022 by scott406

[m d g]

1 hour ago, me05501 said:

I bet if we were discussing laying down the flagstick too close to the hole we'd have 100% agreement, but no one does that because everyone knows it's ridiculous. 

When I putt, I lay the flagstick down angled toward the hole from where my putt starts.

[Dannyboy44]

Coins and regular sized ball markers fall out of my pocket when I sit down on the cart. The poker chip does not. One time on a golf trip i saw everyone was hungover and not having fun so i used a $20 bill as my ball marker and it seemed to get everyone back in good spirits. 

[NJBigFish22]

I think I got the best solution.  Like Happy Gilmore’s caddy you use a ritz cracker.  Just think after you hole out you get a snack!  It’s ecofriendly as well.

[nlinneman20]

7 hours ago, me05501 said:

 

Right on. But this suggests that the poker chip brigade should have a secondary marker ready for when the ARE in someone else's line. Many don't...and in any case, if you have to have a second marker for being a good sport when it's necessary, it seems like a good clue that you could be a better sport all the time. 

 

Even if a poker chip marker is well off my line, it catches my eye when I should be focused on the cup and my line. Adding an additional distraction on the greens is unneeded and unsportsmanlike. 

 

 

lol maybe you just need to become mentally stronger

[phil75070]

I've never bought one, but I have several poker chip ball markers I've somehow picked up over the years. I don't use them, but I have no issues with anyone else using one. I guess I'm not that easily distracted.

[SouthBayGolfer]

I don't want to read 3 pages of this argument but will post that I 100% agree with you. 

[@_the_crook]

These used to be acceptable. Didn't know the social rules had changed. 

 

and the MGM token survived the fire.

yeah - I'm vintage.

 

Edited June 16, 2022 by @_the_crook
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[OKMrazor]

I like the poker chip-sized ball markers with smaller magnetic inserts.  Not near anyone and I'll use the poker chip-sized marker.  In the sight-line of another player and I use the smaller insert.

 

Getting older with worse and worse eye-sight and spotting a poker chip-sized marker is far easier than a rusty dime when determining who's away @ 30 feet.  Perhaps I should work on sticking my approach closer...

[OldCuss]

A did B given it was generally reasonable given C, thus D was born. Then we learned that C was not all encompassing but were constrained by D. Then some, not all, said do away with D, let's have E, instead, then F, then G, all due to learning more about C. Turns out everything about everything after D was D given a richer understanding of C and it's contingent nature. Those that were old were happy to do what they could - and had little concern for whatever version of D that others were observing - for it was good enough and a pleasant difference.

 

Old Cuss

[Anser3]

On 6/15/2022 at 7:34 AM, me05501 said:

Using them as ball markers is silly and impractical. 
 

I will die on this hill.  
 

🙂

 

 

Agreed.  Ping sent me  a couple Ping branded poker chips.  I will never use them on the course (I don't play poker either).  Instead I just keep them with my other markers since Ping is awesome.

Edited June 16, 2022 by Anser3

[psygolf]

18 hours ago, nlinneman20 said:

 

lol maybe you just need to become mentally stronger

Or play alone.

[mhudson111]

Well since the USGA, the official rules making body in the U.S. sells them, seems like just an old man yelling at the clouds exercise 

 

 

[JAMH03]

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Using them as ball markers is silly and impractical. 

Rules don't preclude them so they stay and I'm fine with that.

[hammergolf]

On 6/15/2022 at 12:44 PM, courcy75 said:

I use foreign currency I pick up along the way. Currently using a Costa Rican Colones. 

I use a Dominican peso that my caddie at Casa De Campo gave me. 

Edited June 18, 2022 by hammergolf

[WasatchBogey]

On 6/15/2022 at 11:44 AM, courcy75 said:

I use foreign currency I pick up along the way. Currently using a Costa Rican Colones. 

Same here👍
 

Worked internationally for a bunch of years & have an Octoberfest 2 liter mug filled with coins from all over. Kinda rotate through whatever brings back memories at the time.

 

[mhudson111]

30 minutes ago, JAMH03 said:

Rules don't preclude them so they stay and I'm fine with that.

The irony of complaining about this on a GolfWrx forum with that available is puzzling, tbh!

[mhudson111]

5 minutes ago, WasatchBogey said:

Same here👍
 

Worked internationally for a bunch of years & have an Octoberfest 2 liter mug filled with coins from all over. Kinda rotate through whatever brings back memories at the time.

 

2liter! 😲

 

My 1 liter Spaten glass mug holds a ton of coins.  2L must be Das Boot! 
 

[angelo22]

I’m on the poker chip side. Easier to find in pocket. Doesn’t fall out.  Easier to spot from a distance my eye sight isn’t that great.  I will most definitely move it anywhere for anyone if it’s near their line. If you hit a ball mark your putt is going off line no matter what. Hit a better putt. 

[me05501]

18 hours ago, mhudson111 said:

Well since the USGA, the official rules making body in the U.S. sells them, seems like just an old man yelling at the clouds exercise 

 

 

I notice they call it a poker chip and not a ball marker. 

[angelo22]

I’ve played poker with ball markers no one seemed to care and we all called them poker chips too. Somehow it still all worked out fine. No one complained and no one corrected anyone for calling them chips when they were “ball markers”

[MountainKing]

In a competitive round,  if it's anywhere between me and the hole I'll ask them to mark it with something smaller/flatter or finish out.  In a casual round I don't care if you use your golf bag to mark it. 

[BIG STU]

I use them and will ask someone if it bothers them. Never have had anyone say so. I have a bunch of them. Seems somehow and I do not know why in Tourist golf season we seem to find a lot from different courses some in our area some not. 

I have one that is somewhat special--- A friend of mine owns a couple of Tattoo Parlors. During Bike weeks and such he gives out ones worth $25 off a tat. I beat him out of $25 one day on a trick Golf Bet and he paid me off with one. Besides for me it was not about the money it was the fact of me getting over on him. I keep that one put up and when I know I am playing with him I pull it out and use it and we get a laugh because I got over on him and he did me likewise. 

[chinaski]

On 6/15/2022 at 8:49 AM, RSinSG said:

I use a poker sized mark I got when I played Pebble Beach. It has a smaller marker in the center attached by a magnet that I use when I’m close or near another ball.  No drama. 

 

 

I use one of these, from 2017 US Open at Erin Hills, but never to mark my ball. Just as a place to keep my main ball marker since it is easier to find in my pocket and less likely to get lost. I can't bring myself to use a hat marker, lol. 

[deadsolid...shank]

46 minutes ago, BIG STU said:

I use them and will ask someone if it bothers them. Never have had anyone say so. I have a bunch of them. Seems somehow and I do not know why in Tourist golf season we seem to find a lot from different courses some in our area some not. 

I have one that is somewhat special--- A friend of mine owns a couple of Tattoo Parlors. During Bike weeks and such he gives out ones worth $25 off a tat. I beat him out of $25 one day on a trick Golf Bet and he paid me off with one. Besides for me it was not about the money it was the fact of me getting over on him. I keep that one put up and when I know I am playing with him I pull it out and use it and we get a laugh because I got over on him and he did me likewise. 

I do the same. Simply ask. Or if I feel it’s too close to someone’s line I’ll substitute in a smaller one on my own.  But I certainly won’t stop using one. For all the reasons that have been mentioned, easier to see and easier to find in the pocket. 
 

Amd like someone above said, if one is being used and it’s a couple feet off your line and you hit it…….that’s on you hitting a crappy putt.  Not on the type of mark being used. I swear some people get bent out of shape by the littlest things. 

[JungleJimbo]

On 6/15/2022 at 10:20 PM, 2bGood said:

 

Yes. They are pretty light and easily moved on windy day though.

This is not correct. Ball markers do not need to be round under the rules. 

 

 

 

On 6/15/2022 at 9:30 PM, me05501 said:

 

I've used one in a pinch, but technically they're not permitted under the rules of golf if they aren't round. 

Thanks @2bGood for clarifying… the “not permitted unless round” comment =made me recall those fancy Scotty Cameron ball marker-cum-aiming-tool thingamajigs. 

 

https://www.titleist.com/teamtitleist/team-titleist/f/scotty-cameron-putters/41433/scotty-cameron-ball-marker-help

 

 

i will confess a preference for those cheap "metal gasket/washer" stainless steel rings, as my ball marker
... as these are small/flat/ can attach to the magnetic putter headcovers (whereas a huge plastic poker chip = isn't magnetic?)

(albeit "to each their own" i.e. i've heard other folks eg @BIG STU are averse to using putter headcovers!)

 

 

 

 

Edited June 20, 2022 by JungleJimbo