Golf Souvenirs

[NorwichBanana]

I'm off to France next weekend to play 3 rounds of golf - and thinking about what item I can look to get as a souvenir from each course.
I'm tempted to get the same thing from every course I play and slowly build up a collection (and back track to courses I've played previously too), alternativly I can get something different from each course.

What would you do/have you done when buying a souvenir from courses you've played?

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

Poker chips are the obvious/most economical option, scorecards are free.

 

[Garush34]

I like to collect ball markers from courses I have played or visited for pro events. I find it is the easiest thing to get at most courses and doesn't take up too much room in the house. I also like to see the different type of marks that each course has. I collect from courses visited too, as most likely I wont get a chance to play there so its nice to have a souvenir to remember it by.

 

[garyinderry]

Ball markers and scorecards are my bread and butter things to collect.
If the course has them I like to get a bag tag and ball with club crest and course planner.
If I am at a golf tournament I get a flag.

Its a pet hate of mine to forget to take a scorecard or two home with me or worse, sold out ball markers.

 

[Slab]

Yup to markers and balls, also add pitch repairers

If the courses are nice the pencils & tees probably have the course name on them too, to go with the scorecard

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Ball markers and pitch repairers. I played a top 100 course last year, loved it but the ball markers were cheap so I didn't get one. Hugely disappointed by that as I had no obvious memento.

It is one on lifes / golfs little pleasures to put my hand in my ball marker / repairer bag and see what little reminder I pull out.

 

[Tashyboy]

Did get a ball marker for a PP from one ? Birkdale think it was. It was a thing of beauty. Past winners of the open played there on it. Yardages for holes. Yup ball markers for me.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Tend to get a ball marker from each course I visit. If I am playing (places like Royal Birkdle I only visited en route to Hillside) then I'll usually get a course planner too

 

[patricks148]

i usually take a scorecard and yardage book if they do one, trouble with ball markers is always end up using it then lose it

 

[duncan mackie]

Once upon a time I used to get the course planner, to use on the day and collect (and review etc).

Then, as with everything else it seems, I got to a point where a large box of old course planners was simply junk in the corner...and got chucked.

So I collect memories, not physical momentos, now

 

[IanM]

I wont say how much i spent in the souvenir shop at the Masters.............

I used to get yardage books, but i have a big box full of them and will have to get rid eventually....stopped buying them now.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Ball markers & course planners

 

[Crow]

If they sell them the only thing I usually buy is a bacon cob.

 

[Deleted member 23344]

Course planners for me ... fortunately most still do them despite GPS usage.

 

[ScienceBoy]

If they sell them the only thing I usually buy is a bacon cob.

barm>cob>roll

 

[Lord Tyrion]

barm>cob>roll

Bap>bun>buttie 😄

 

[PhilTheFragger]

A chap in the golf society recently passed away aged 83, been playing all over the place since he retired aged 65.
Went to his house after to sort out the computer for his wife and she gave me 7 picture frames full of ball markers from all over the world.

Her kids weren’t golfers and she was going to chuck them out

He played some wonderful courses all over the world.

Nice way to remember him

 

[HomerJSimpson]

A chap in the golf society recently passed away aged 83, been playing all over the place since he retired aged 65.
Went to his house after to sort out the computer for his wife and she gave me 7 picture frames full of ball markers from all over the world.

Her kids weren’t golfers and she was going to chuck them out

He played some wonderful courses all over the world.

Nice way to remember him

Nice story. You going to put them up somewhere?

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Nice story. You going to put them up somewhere?

Yes indeed, when I get my permanent pad sorted out 👍

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Yes indeed, when I get my permanent pad sorted out 👍

Good man. Seems a shame to stick them away. Does anyone else on here have a similar collection