Are you allowed to mark a line on your ball marker?

[Waffler]

For alignment purposes.

Anyone?

Thanks.

[jaskanski]

Yes. Oddly enough, Scotty Cameron makes a rather expensive and equally useless (IMHO) ball marker/alignment tool for the same purpose.

[golfismygame]

Yes, that's allowed.

[MGWP]

No poblem with that at all...heck if they let you draw a line on your ball...you know you can have one on the marker.

After all the rules of the game only loosely even recognise markers.

 

I mean if you have your ball marked and a gust of wind comes and moves your ball...the fact that you marked it is irrelevant...you still have to play it from where it ended up.

[golfismygame]

Anyone?

 

Thanks.

 

 

No poblem with that at all...heck if they let you draw a line on your ball...you know you can have one on the marker.

After all the rules of the game only loosely even recognise markers.

 

I mean if you have your ball marked and a gust of wind comes and moves your ball...the fact that you marked it is irrelevant...you still have to play it from where it ended up.

 

I don't get your point?

The game most certainly recognizes ball markers, but as soon as a ball is replaced on the putting green, the fact that the ball marker is left at the ball becomes irrelevant.

If the ball is played and the ball marker can indicate a line of play and is still placed behind the ball, IMO this would be a breach of he Rules.

[Waffler]

Yes. Oddly enough, Scotty Cameron makes a rather expensive and equally useless (IMHO) ball marker/alignment tool for the same purpose.

 

$40 for the Cameron Marker.

 

And then there's this-->

 

 

http://www.golfjustlikethepros.com/GTA%20A...ll%20Marker.htm

[DaveLeeNC]

Anyone?

 

Thanks.

 

This is legal and (surprisingly) useful - something that I had not thought of.

 

I have moderate arthritis issues with my knees and can't squat down behind a putt. I sometimes use a putting line on my ball and part of the reason that it is 'sometimes' is that I tend to have to "pop up/down" a couple times to get the alignment right. I can't really see the alignment without standing well behind the ball. Using a marker with an alignment mark could help to eliminate one "up/down" in that process.

 

I'm not going to send Scotty C. $40 for one, but will probably make one.

 

Thanks for the tip (even though that was not the intention).

 

dave