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« 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.



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« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2015, 10:00:23 AM »

It's the turf for sure.
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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2015, 10:30:51 AM »

It's the turf for sure.

Absolutely
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« Reply #3 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.
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« Reply #4 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.
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« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2015, 12:57:35 PM »

Divot is Scottish for 'turf roof' or something.
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« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2015, 01:03:06 PM »

A divot is a daft robot.
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« Reply #7 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.
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« Reply #8 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.
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