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Okay, hitting out of a divot is frustrating, but according to the rules of golf, if you
hit a ball and it lands in a divot that somebody else didn't refill with sand or dirt and seed,
you got to play it out of it. So this year at the Masters, Trevor Immelman, on the eighteenth
hole, he was leading by three strokes over Tiger Woods, and he, his drive, which was
under a lot of pressure, he hit his drive, a nice drive, but it landed in somebody's
divot. So that can be a situation where you can lose a lot of strokes. So to play out
of a divot, generally a divot's about the same width as your club head. So you want
to just come with the club head through the divot right here, and you're going to try
to get underneath the ball and get it out of there. A lot of times you're not going
to be able to get much spin on it because the ball's sitting on dirt, so there's no
grass that it's on top of. So you're not going to be able to get much spin. So the key here
is to make good contact. And if you can get it out of here and advance your shot, you
can minimize the damage. But this is all, this happens a lot of the time because people
don't repair their divots, so they're not showing good courtesy to their fellow golfers.
But so when this situation happens to you, just relax, maybe even grab an extra club
if that would make you be a little more relaxed. And so you're going to take a nice, easy swing.
And I got out of it pretty good. But it's, we want to be, it's not as good of a shot
as I could have hit if I was on the grass in the fairway. So repair your divots for
your fellow player and, but if you ever get stuck in one, that's how you hit out of it.
Just guide the club through the divot and just pop it out of there.