Abstract: A golf marker cleaner having a housing with a central bore with a set of individually retractable soil-engaging arms, each having one end pivotally connected to the housing and a second end with a soil-engaging tine to prevent movement of the soil-engaging arm, with a rotatable shaft extending through the bore in said housing and rotatably journaled therein to permit rotation of the shaft about the central axis, and a resilient pad attached to the shaft, with the resilient pad having a surface for rotatingly engaging a top surface of a marker on a golf course without marring the surface of the marker and to limit the axial displacement of soil-cutting blades connected to the shaft, with the soil cutting blade having U-shaped cutting blades located thereon to permit an operator to rotate the soil-cutting blade to cut free an annular portion of soil and grass located around the golf course marker.