An aiming line and an identifying mark, from one stencil
The line does the aiming: the same dead-straight alignment line as our single line design. The two dots either side do a different job, which is to make the ball unmistakably yours. In a bag of white balls, or in the rough next to your partner's, the dots settle it in a glance.
The Rules of Golf expect you to be able to identify your ball, and most golfers manage it with a scrawled initial. Two neat dots either side of a line is faster to spot, and it looks like you meant it. Golf ball marking ideas has more ways to make a ball yours.
Two colours, if you like
The slot takes any fine permanent marker, so there is nothing to stop you drawing the line in black and the dots in red. A fine permanent marker in the colour you pick comes with it, and a spare in another colour is £1.99. The best pen to mark a golf ball explains which inks hold and which smudge.
Made to order and dispatched within 3 days, posted with Royal Mail tracking.
Or put your own mark where the dots are
Initials, a number, a short word: design your own golf ball stencil from £12.99 and keep the line.
Questions about the line and dots stencil
Do I have to mark my golf ball to identify it?
The Rules of Golf expect you to be able to identify your ball, and a personal mark is how you prove a ball is yours when two land close together. Playing the wrong ball costs two strokes in stroke play, or the hole in match play. A line with a dot either side is a mark nobody mistakes.
Can the dots be a different colour from the line?
The stencil guides any fine permanent marker, so the line and the dots can be drawn in two colours with two pens. Many golfers keep the line black for aiming and make the dots their colour, which makes the ball easier still to pick out.
How do I keep the line straight when I draw it?
You do not have to: the slot in the stencil holds the pen on a straight path, so the line comes out dead straight whether your hand is steady or not. Press the ball firmly into the shell, draw in one pass, and lift straight off so the wet ink does not smudge.
Will the Line and dots stencil fit my golf ball?
It fits every regulation golf ball: the Rules of Golf set the size at no smaller than 42.67 mm and every maker builds to it. Titleist, Srixon, Callaway, TaylorMade, supermarket balls and lake balls all clip in the same way.
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