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Title: What is a divot? Post by: tikay on August 03, 2015, 09:43:16 AM In golf, we replace the divot.
What is a divot - the hole in the ground, or the clod of earth that has been removed? It can't be both. (https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQbY2YVwrzmb6_sEa8B_H42v0DyYXt4F86D8tsq4gG1Si4dJmWo) (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ7i2O1J66vubiBc-QOnyNjsUq7Hhvkg5pZMHmFV7ADsJKAbmDM) Title: Re: What is a divot? Post by: mulhuzz on August 03, 2015, 10:00:23 AM It's the turf for sure.
Title: Re: What is a divot? Post by: david3103 on August 03, 2015, 10:30:51 AM Title: Re: What is a divot? Post by: tikay on August 03, 2015, 10:44:08 AM So when the ball lands in that little hole in the turf, from where the divot came, it is not landing in a divot? It's petty, I know, but there's quite a debate raging about this in the letters column of The Times at the moment. Some folks - "Enraged, Tunbridge Wells" sort of thing - are getting very cross indeed. Title: Re: What is a divot? Post by: Karabiner on August 03, 2015, 10:51:17 AM If you say that the ball landed in an old divot it could be vernacular for divot-mark.
Horses' hooves throw up divots which have to be replaced after a race. That "Enraged from Tunbridge Wells" is a troublemaker. Title: Re: What is a divot? Post by: mulhuzz on August 03, 2015, 12:57:35 PM Divot is Scottish for 'turf roof' or something.
Title: Re: What is a divot? Post by: RED-DOG on August 03, 2015, 01:03:06 PM A divot is a daft robot.
Title: Re: What is a divot? Post by: Tal on August 03, 2015, 03:35:54 PM I had divot as being the displacement of the turf, so a flat bit of grass becomes lump and a hole next to each other. When you replace the divot, you put it back to the flat bit of grass again.
Title: Re: What is a divot? Post by: david3103 on August 03, 2015, 04:24:08 PM So when the ball lands in that little hole in the turf, from where the divot came, it is not landing in a divot? It's petty, I know, but there's quite a debate raging about this in the letters column of The Times at the moment. Some folks - "Enraged, Tunbridge Wells" sort of thing - are getting very cross indeed. That little hole is a 'divot hole' or an 'unrepaired divot mark'. Pretty irritating when your ball ends up in one. |