1.   Is it too much to hope that it has been put to more important use -- melted down into golf ball markers?

2.   Corey Pavin loaned him a ball marker.

3.   Sutton simply raised his arm, removed his cap, picked up his ball marker and walked off in triumph.

4.   Ballesteros complained, saying he wanted to use the ball marker to judge his long putt to halve, which missed.