How to use a divot repair tool
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Many golfers have been playing the game for years and have never really known the correct way to use a divot repair tool to fix their ball marks.
The higher end golf courses seem to offer repair tools with greens fee, and they normally have a pamphlet on the correct way to use it. But so many golfers just don't look at it, they think they know but, many have had it backwards.
If a divot is not repaired correctly everyone suffers from the bad conditions on the green afterwards. But if done correctly every golfer can help ensure that greens stay in better shape, and that's just good golf etiquette.
A lot of people think that you need to push up the ground that is at the bottom of the divot, and that is incorrect. To fix it the right way you have to close the gap and push the sides of the divot together.
To use a divot repair tool the right way :
- 1.) Place it in the ground just outside the ball mark it self.
- 2.) Push down and forward to push the ground closer together.
- 3.) Then move the tool to either side to close the divot.
- 4.) Finish it off by tapping lightly on the ball mark to level it out with your putter.
Yup, it's really that simple. 
If your on golf vacation and your round is going great there isn't much worse than making a great putt and then hitting someone else's divot causing you to miss. Or, chipping on the green and hitting a divot making your ball go way off the original line.
So why are so many greens un-repaired ? Why don't more golfers fix their divots ?
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