[GypeFeeshyTes]

I've heard people say that it's not fair that we have to hit out of divots. I think it's just part of the game and I even hit out of them during the Winter for the practice - which I admit I really need. What are your thoughts on this? Should the rules be changed to allow you to move your ball out of a divot?

[Auzuigcx]

I say no. Nature of the game. We should be more diligent on replacing our divots and encouraging others to do so. I hate hitting out of them but doing so makes me a better player by learning how to.

[Dodoerabe]

I don't really care one way or the other. I can remember maybe 1 or 2 times it was an issue. Just part of the breaks I guess. Take more club, accelerate through the ball, and stay down. When you see the overhead shots at pro tournaments and all the divots they have to navigate, I am surprised it doesn't happen more often than it does.

There is a new Payne Stewart tribute course in Branson that has a local rule that you are to treat filled divots as ground under repair and you get a free drop. The story is that Payne was very much against the rule that you have to play from in a divot, so when they made the course they put in that local rule because that is what he would have wanted.

[XangadsX]

Part of the game.

[LeslieMoran]

No, I don't think so, hitting from a divot is just part of the game. Everyone has the same opportunity to either land in a divot or get lucky and miss it so it is perfectly fair.

[Glamyclitlemi]

I think it is rub of the green.

For me it reminds me to stay down through the shot.

[PlanTaleks]

Man let's see if I can do this....I do not remove my ball from a divot. Do I believe I should be allowed too....hail yes! If you miss the fairway you get the ruff. The farther you miss it the rougher it gets. You smack it down the middle and you're like...yeah baby...only to get there and see you're in trouble. It then just became a game of luck. If you find fairway you should not have to hit from a hole in the ground. But rules is rules and it doesn't happen that much. As a matter of fact...it happened only once to me and the truth is there's lots of other things that go bad in my round that cause me to jump up add down. I could never blame divots on my score.

[Meowmeowz]

Man let's see if I can do this....I do not remove my ball from a divot. Do I believe I should be allowed too....hail yes! If you miss the fairway you get the ruff. The farther you miss it the rougher it gets. You smack it down the middle and you're like...yeah baby...only to get there and see you're in trouble. It then just became a game of luck. If you find fairway you should not have to hit from a hole in the ground. But rules is rules and it doesn't happen that much. As a matter of fact...it happened only once to me and the truth is there's lots of other things that go bad in my round that cause me to jump up add down. I could never blame divots on my score.

Nice to hear an honest opinion!

[Muhabsssa]

Yeah, if I'm stuck with them, so is everyone else. Ever see a landing area at a pro tourney? If divots did count as ground under repair, there'd be no place to get relief, anyway.

[medifastwoman]

It is too hard to define a divot objectively, I think. On Saturday I was in what appeared to be an 'unusually small' divot in the fairway on hole 11, and in what appeared to be a 'weird' divot in the fringe on hole 15. I would rather just hit the shots than to get into some discussion whether or not those were really divots.

[Spisivavona]

I say its just part of the game. No one ever said golf was always fair.
Saying that you should be able to move your ball out of a divot without a penalty is like saying you should be allowed a mulligan if a gust of wind comes up right after you hit your ball.
If golf were easy, anyone could do it.

[chppjdf]

Hit it....

[PlanTaleks]

I say its just part of the game. No one ever said golf was always fair.
Saying that you should be able to move your ball out of a divot without a penalty is like saying you should be allowed a mulligan if a gust of wind comes up right after you hit your ball.
If golf were easy, anyone could do it.

Yeah...then why is it called the FAIRway...it should be called Sometimes Fairway

[Mambattedge]

I tee up all the balls I hit so divots don't matter to me.

[XangadsX]

Yeah...then why is it called the FAIRway...it should be called Sometimes Fairway

Hee-hee. Harry likes puns.

[treawittelf]

If I get relief from a bad break like a divot, does the ball that bounces out of the trees into the fairway have to get put back into the woods.

Bad breaks and lucky breaks seem to cancel each other out.

Kevin

[PlanTaleks]

Bad breaks and lucky breaks seem to cancel each other out.

Kevin

not in my world

[Mambattedge]

What's this fairway you all are talking about. I don't beleive I've been on one.

[extessarere]

I don't believe if you put the ball in the fairway you should be punished for doing so.

[Brutton]

I believe if you hit the fairway you should get a "fairway" lie. Golf is not always "fair" that "way" though. If I owned a course I'd put the Payne Stewart rule in effect.

I also think trees in the middle of a fairway are ridiculous, as are bunkers. On my course the bunkers and trees would penalize wayward shots, not shots hit in the fairway.

Just my 2 cents.