The Curse Of Divots And Plugs.

August 6, 2007

I decided to go for a round at the public links course today and came back in a demonic mood and minus a few tufts of hair. (Not that I can afford to lose anymore) The weather was glorious and I was playing above average but the fairways and greens resembled fox-holed battlefields. Recently, we’ve had a really wet spell and it looks like many of the “players” were too lazy to poke their plugs and bung their divots, but now it has gotten very hot very quickly and the devastation has become painfully apparent. Sacrilege at the most sinful level, if you ask me. Drives were landing in moonlike meteor craters, chips on top of grass toupees (or scalps) and long putts zigzagging the greens like drunken ball-bearings in a tilted pinball machine. If this tropical spell continues and the ground dries up even more the damage may become irreparable. I saw a number of attendants and green keepers busily watering and hoeing but I could see from their faces that they were fighting a losing battle. O.K., as I said we had some monsoon weather for the last few weeks but if you are going to play in the rain then at least play by the rules. It may be tempting in a heavy shower to duck under a tree and leave a divot or run to the next tee and leave a plug mark in the green but remember that your fellow golfers will have to play on the course that you leave behind. 

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