Holding device for golf items

Claim 1

A holding device for golf items comprising: a flat rectangular plastic box having two end walls and elongated top, bottom, front and back walls with a pair of prongs extending from one of said end walls; said box having an opening in the upper corner thereof opposite the pronged end into which a pencil can be inserted so as to extend diagonally downwardly toward the opposite lower corner thereof, said box including rigid internal wall portions adjacent said upper corner opening and said opposite lower corner thereby forming a passageway aligned with the corner opening for frictionally engaging portions of the length of said pencil; said box having additional spaced openings on the end wall thereof with the corner opening into which tees can be inserted so as to extend angularly downwardly into the box, said box including rigid internal wall portions adjacent each said additional openings thereby forming passageways for frictionally engaging portions of the shanks of said tees; said box having on the top wall thereof adjacent the pronged end thereof a longitudinal slot with a central transverse slot extending to the front wall, the end of said transverse slot forming a neck on the upper end of the front wall leading down to a circular opening; said box having an arcuate wall disposed therein below said longitudinal slot and having transverse ribs disposed therein on either side of said longitudinal slot; said longitudinal and transverse slots being of a size to permit a ball marker having a flat circular body and a central stem to be inserted therein with said circular body loosely fitted in said longitudinal slot between the transverse ribs, with the end of said stem snapping through the neck of said transverse slot so as to reside in said circular opening and with the bottom edge of said circular body resting on said arcuate wall.