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Video Tutorial: Marking Your Golf Ball on the Green

Written by  Andrew Wild on Sunday, 19 June 2011
To mark a golf ball properly we usually use a marker, but it can be a coin or anything similar. Andrew Wild explains the process.




The way we do it is to stand in line with the ball and the hole, get right behind the ball, and put the marker as close to the ball as we can without touching it. Once that's in place you can then lift the ball. 

You can actually put the marker wherever you wish to, but normally it's behind the ball, directly in line with the hole.

Once the marker's in place, you can pick the ball up and give it a good clean. I've marked my golf ball so I can identify it, but I've done it with a straight line - so once I've worked out where I want my putt to start, I can use the mark to give me a good alignment. Once it's in place, you can take the marker away, and you're ready to have a putt.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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