re: Golf ball in a Divot

One of the many rules of golf that I hate. But how do you fix it? Lift clean and place in the fairway? I mean it's really not an overly difficult shot to play. Ben Martin didn't have too much of a problem with it on the 72nd hole of the John Deere.

John Daly once said if he could change any rule in golf that hitting your ball in the fairway and landing in a divot should be ruled at ground under repair and you should be entitled to a free drop. Take it from a PGA professional, this isn't just a bitch from us amateurs.

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For the record I love golf and would love for someone to invent a golf course design that eliminates wasted time and forces people to keep play so I could play in less than 4 hours. It becomes impossible to play after you have kids and you are forcing your spouse to be a single parent for a huge chunk of the weekend.

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This right here. This is my life long battle. A 2.5 year old and an 8 month old at home.... Wife is not a fan of me spending 1/2 the weekend at the course.

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weekend golfers should never hit out of a divot (i certainly don't) ... if i'm in a footprint in the bunker, i move the ball ..

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Really? Wow

Or picking up your 7 foot double bogey putt. Take your 8 like a man

I completely agree. Golf has too many "Just Plain Idiotic" carved in stone rules; however, play it as it lies is one of the most ludicrous in my opinion. Just as you've noted, the golfer hits a fantastic straight as an arrow drive that just happens to land in a divot - which, itself is something that another golfer failed to repair after creating it. Congratulations on the good drive? No. You piss poor golfer shouldn't have hit the ball in the divot.

Play it as it lies is even more ludicrous in the typical Non-PGA level course where there's no one picking up leaves, fallen limbs, etc. before and after every round or where the aged mowing equipment leaves a sprig of weeds in an otherwise mowed fairway.

It's cost me a tourney before. I sprayed it out the divot 2 fairways over. I will punch someone if they move it out of a divot

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I only play recreational golf.

We move the ball.

Nobody cares.

We don't claim to be pros or bonifide amateurs.

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I understand but there is only one way to play the game. I recommend you guys start playing like gentlemen and grow up.

I disqualified my own two-man team in a tournament, on the course. It was my club's tournament. I chaired the competition committee. I invited my a-hole ex-FIL to join my team. The rules were straightforward: both players on a team played all the way through on every hole. Combined team score tournament.

He yanked one off the tee out-of-bounds, refused to hit a provisional ball. When we got to his ball (which was 20' OB) he said that he'd just drop there. I told him this wasn't allowed and he acted huffy and said to stand back because that's where he was hitting from. I stood back and watched him hit, then one of the guys in the other cart came over and quizzically asked me, "what are you going to do?"

I told my EX-FIL (wasn't then) that right now he faced a 2 stroke penalty for hitting an incorrect ball, plus a one stroke penalty for going OB and he still had to go back to the tee. He tried to push me around in front of my members and tell me he wasn't going to go back and hit it and he was playing the ball he hit.

I just looked at the other guys, apologized and asked them to pick up my FIL's ball and return it to me later in the clubhouse and I'd be sure that he gets it back. Told them we were disqualified and left the course, taking him and his red face to his car and didn't talk to him again for almost a year after. He was an a-hole through and through.