Tin Cup
Laser-cut stainless steel golf ball marking stencils, guaranteed for life and made in the USA since two Virginians started the company in 2009
🇺🇸 Made in USA
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Where Tin Cup products are made
A Tin Cup is a single piece of laser cut stainless steel. There is no assembly, no electronics and no soft goods, which means the origin question has exactly one answer rather than a supply chain to trace. The company answers it the same way on every stencil listing.
The state designs carry it: laser-cut from 100% stainless steel and proudly made in the USA. The stock designs carry it: 100% stainless steel, made in the USA, built to last hundreds of rounds. Two families, the same sentence, more than a hundred listings.
The accessory items the company sells alongside the stencils, including ball markers, clips and branded golf balls, carry no origin statement. This profile scopes the claim to the stencils, which is where the company makes it.
The sentence Every Tin Cup is 100% Made in the USA and patented, and it is guaranteed for life is quoted from the company own About page and was read live on 13 September 2026. The product level lines laser-cut from 100% stainless steel and proudly made in the USA and 100% stainless steel, made in the USA, built to last hundreds of rounds were read the same day from the company own product data, covering the state design and stock design families. The founding in the spring of 2009 by two Northern Virginians and the legal entity Tin Cup Products, LLC come from the same About page. The Falls Church address comes from the company own privacy policy. No manufacturing town is asserted, because the company does not publish one.
The story
Tin Cup solves a small problem completely. Golfers mark their ball so they can identify it, and the usual method is a wobbly line drawn freehand with a marker. A Tin Cup is a laser cut stainless steel stencil that clips over the ball; run a pen through it and the mark comes out clean and repeatable every time.
The company was founded in the spring of 2009 by two Northern Virginians and trades as Tin Cup Products, LLC from 701 West Broad Street in Falls Church, Virginia. The range grew into more than a hundred and fifty stock designs plus custom work, including a stencil for every state.
The product carries a lifetime guarantee, which for a single piece of stainless steel with no moving parts is a guarantee the company can afford to make. The material is the reason: there is nothing on a Tin Cup to wear out except the steel itself.
Why they matter
Golf accessories are a category almost entirely given over to imports. Tees, markers, towels, gloves and gadgets arrive by the container and are branded on arrival. A small stainless steel part, laser cut domestically and sold at a price a golfer will pay, is genuinely unusual.
It is also the kind of product where the American claim is easy to verify and hard to fake. There is one component and one process. Either the steel was cut here or it was not, and the company says it was, on its About page and on each stencil listing.
Buying one puts money into domestic metal fabrication for an object designed to outlast the person who bought it. That is a better argument for American manufacturing than most marketing ever manages.
Shop Tin Cup products
The Buy American Campaign store carries the Tin Cup range of stainless steel golf ball marking stencils.
Tin Cup questions
Where are Tin Cup stencils made?
The company states that every Tin Cup is 100% Made in the USA. It does not publish the plant town, so this profile does not name one.
Does the claim cover the accessories too?
No. The made in the USA line appears on the stencil listings, across both the state designs and the stock designs. The small accessories range carries no origin statement, and this profile does not claim one for it.
What is a Tin Cup actually for?
It is a laser cut stainless steel stencil that clips over a golf ball so a marking pen produces a clean, repeatable mark rather than a freehand line. The company guarantees it for life.
When was Tin Cup founded?
In the spring of 2009, by two Northern Virginians, according to the company own About page. The legal entity is Tin Cup Products, LLC.