18 February 2008
Golf Chat – What Should You Carry?
Posted by BQ Browning under: Golf Chat .
Golf Bags are heavy, even lightweight bags are heavy with all the paraphernalia that we put into them. So what should you have in your bag as absolute essentials. Just out of interest today I emptied my bag to see what was there.
First and foremost – clubs, full or half set. I carry Driver, 3 and 5 Woods, 5 Rescue, 5-9 Iron, Pitching Wedge, Sand Wedge, 60 degree wedge and putter – one more is allowed for the maximum but I don’t feel the need for it. Next, what I think of as essential accessories. A good supply of whatever your choice of balls, an appropriate selection of tees and a pitch mark repairer. A damp sponge to clean my clubs, a towel and an umbrella. Strictly speaking that is all you need but I do have one or two other things which I think are fairly essential.
I have a small cleaning widget that will get serious mud off my clubs or balls, ball markers, pencils and score cards in one pocket of my bag. In the next big pocket I carry ’supplies’, drinks (at least a 1 litre for a round), muesli bars and bananas, cap or visor and waterproofs if the weather looks like I might need them. The next small pocket has a spare glove or two in case it’s wet. Next large pocket contains a lightweight shower proof jacket that lives in there all the time, and my ‘golf specs’ – special glasses to help compensate for my atrocious eyesight. A copy of the Rules of Golf always comes in handy and a small first aid kit with plasters, antiseptic wipes, and so on. Most important is that little pocket is the Sun Block – you can easily get badly burned on the golf course.
Throw in a couple of packs of tissues and a tin of mints and I’m all equipped – how about you?
