It is very common around the globe for sponsors to personalise their golf tournaments with unique tee markers.

Congressional Golf Club in suburban Rockville, Maryland and host venue for the 2011 US Open uses miniature models of the Capital Building, and the seat of Government in the US.

You will find mini FedEx Cup trucks on display during the FedEx Cup Series while the Tiger Woods supported AT & T National to be staged at Congressional in June uses replicas of the famed Iwo Jima Memorial to be found in nearby Arlington Cementary.

Last year’s inaugural Turkish Airlines Open utilized model airplanes as tee markers about the Montgomerie course while a few weeks later the Handa World Cup of Golf in Melbourne sported models of Melbourne’s trams.

Now there’s a new tee marker on the PGA and it’s a Valspar paint can but filled with sand and not paint.

Valspar is the world’s sixth largest manufacturer of paint and coatings and it’s making its debut as a sponsor this week on the Copperhead Course at the superb Innisbrook Resort here in Tampa Bay.

And the catch-phrase for this week’s event – The most colourful event on the PGA Tour.

Valspar paint cans acting as tee markers in this week’s $US 5.8m PGA Tour event. (Photo – www.golfbyoutourmiss.com)