WATCH: Greenskeepers look away as player takes enormous divot
08/23/2024 09:00 AM
The glaring spotlight of someone filming your shot can be too much for some players.
This lad has lined up well enough but with another divot nearby he takes a massive chunk out of the fairway again.
The look on his face says it all.
The ideal practice for fixing divots is to verify with the golf course superintendent about the specific rules, as grass types vary from course to course and from fairways to the rough. Replace any divots on the course as a general rule, unless the golf cart is equipped with a container holding sand or a sand/seed combination.
If you are playing on a course with bentgrass fairways and bluegrass rough, you must pay particular attention to the materials in the container.
Should the course you are playing on have bluegrass rough and bentgrass fairways, you need to be very aware of what’s in the seed container.
If the course provides just sand, then fill the divot hole and tap down the sand with your foot firmly but without going to town like you’re the Lord of the Dance.
If a sand/bentgrass seed mixture is provided, divots in the rough would not be replaced so as to not contaminate the bluegrass with bentgrass seed. In bermudagrass fairways, generally sand is just used as opposed to seed.
In replacing a divot, the policy is to replace the divot so the grass can send down new roots. If so, replace the turf in the same direction it came out, and tap down firmly so the mower won’t pull it back out. If you are walking and no sand is provided, smooth the divot hole with your feet, gently pulling the sides of the divot hole to the center.
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