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OK, I’ve got a bone to pick with some of you. FIX YOUR DANG DIVOTS!!! You know who you are, and the rest of us are not happy with you, mister or missus. I know a golfer who collects divot repair tools. He has an entire wall full of them in his rec room. I will never forget the first time I played a round with this…. person. Didn’t fix one of his divots. Not ONE! I was so tempted to whip out some clever and withering remarks, but I kept a lid on it and made my comments in the club house in a roundabout way so he’d get the message without making a scene. I’m not a confronter, which is probably both a good and a bad thing in this game we all love.

Beyond the rudeness, leaving divots causes the course to degrade. As golfers, we should all try to be good stewards of the game. That means behaving with decorum, playing by the rules, and fixing all divots we create. It’s incredibly stupid not to. If everyone ignored them, within about a month on a busy course you’d be in a divot after practically every tee shot on par-4s and par-5s. Eventually, you’d be playing from a patch of dirt. Sound like fun? Come on, people. FIX YOUR DIVOTS!

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