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What goes in what pocket

And we wonder why more youngsters don't take up the game.
6 pages of golfers describing what goes in each pocket 😔
 
Shouldn't all Golfers always carry a spare ball in the pocket during a round?
Otherwise you're potentially contributing towards slow Play! What if you've had to leave your bag/trolley 30yrds from the Tee.
:whistle:
 
Shouldn't all Golfers always carry a spare ball in the pocket during a round?
Otherwise you're potentially contributing towards slow Play! What if you've had to leave your bag/trolley 30yrds from the Tee.
:whistle:

I use my remote to bring it back to me of course.
 
Back left – my two castle tees tied together with cord, pitch mark repairer and sundry small tees in case I can’t find a broken one for par 3s.
Front right – selection of 9 or 10 tees of various sizes, spare pitch mark repairer, 7 or 8 pencils, provisional ball, 2 spare ballmarkers (main marker is on my cap).
Back right – wallet
Front left – spectacles, more pencils and a pen, packet of tissues.

This distribution is fine until the waterproofs go on. As soon as they go on, I remember that I should have removed the contents of back left trouser pocket to jacket left pocket and front right trouser pocket to jacket right pocket – manage to do this with great difficulty without removing waterproof trousers.

When this is done, the sun comes out, I take off the jacket, forgetting to zip up the pockets and everything ends up on the ground (it only has a short zip at the neck so it has to be removed like a sweater) so have to spend several minutes sorting items out to go in the appropriate back left or front right pockets.

On a showery day this process is repeated several times.

And there lies your main cause of slow play :)
 
Front right, tees and pitch repairer/marker
front left gammon s2 and a provistional
back right wallet
back left scorecard and pencil
 
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