When it comes to accessories, there’s a whole golfing subculture out there.

By accessories
- Covers for your irons
- Plastic tubes that you put in your bag to keep your shafts from clanging together
- Tripod tees to use when the ground is hard

- Golf watches that keep your score
- Rubber suction cups that allow you to lift your ball from the hole without bending down

I’ve even seen a plastic clip that fits to the side of your bag so that you can “find” your putter quickly. You know the sort of things. Most accessories appear to be good ideas, but then you often use them only once.
The place to find all this sort of stuff is in the classified advertising sections of golf magazines. But take my advice: Don’t bother. Real golfers — and you want to look and behave like one — don’t go in for that stuff. Accessories are very uncool. The best golf bags are spartan affairs and contain only the bare
essentials:
- About six balls
- A few wooden tees
- A couple of gloves
- A rain suit
- A pitch-mark repair tool
- A few small coins (preferably foreign) for markers
- Two or three pencils
- A little bag (leather is cool) for your wallet, money clip, loose change, car keys, rings, and so on

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