repairing pitch marks

A.Necessiter

Greetings golf bordies,

After playing last weekend I noticed there were way too many dead
spots on the greens. I put most of them down to people not knowing how to repair their pitch marks correctly,so with the season just kicking off
it might be good time throw this link in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ZzT8yMnmg. I hope this clears up any doubt of what to do if you
didn't know already.
Any other tips to keep your course in good nick,please do post.

Regards,
Alfred

stockdam

Pitchmarks should be repaired by pushing the grass in towards the centre of the pitchmark.........many people dig it up from below.

I often repair 3 or 4 pitchmarks per green on some courses.

fullstop

stockdam wrote: »

Pitchmarks should be repaired by pushing the grass in towards the centre of the pitchmark.........many people dig it up from below.

Not necessarily. Often the grass is just pushed down into the pitchmark, in which case pushing up from the back and then pushing in towards the centre from the front is the best way. The problem is people pushing up from the front first......but I know what you mean.

nuts86

I often repair 3 or 4 pitchmarks per green on some courses.[/quote]


when i first joined my club as a juvenile it was drilled into us to repair your own plus one, even if there isnt one immediatly next to yours, great way of getting young people into the habbit of looking after the course, now only if we can get the older fellas to rake the bunkers after them

scout353

It never ceases to amaze me that you have a members club which has a huge amount of unrepaired pitch marks!

Then these same members complain about excessive maintenance costs!

I think a great idea is to "adopt a green". If a member selects one green as his baby for the season and every time he reaches that green he* fixes his pitch mark and two or three others then there should be no problem!

Now my problem is I am not finding greens regularly enough to cause a pitch mark

*he is generic!!!!!!!!!!

ShriekingSheet

We've had this argument before, and it's a sore-point with many here, but I keep coming accross it time and time again. So many visitors to my course just do not seem to give a sh*t about repairing pitch-marks.

I played a few on Monday and, given that many people had the day off, we had a few more visitors out than usual. There were four or five groups of visitors ahead of me and I could not believe some of the damage they had left behind. Not only gaping pitch-marks but careless spike marks where they'd dragged their feet and even little divots from around the green where they'd pitched on and not only did they not replace it, they left the divot lying on the green!!

The difference between the course after a Saturday Medal and after a society or open day is pretty big. We are blessed with a wealth of members who make it their business to (a)repair their pitch-mark 100% of the time, (b) repair any others they see and (c) encourage others to do the same. So a members-only day actually tends to leave the course in better nick than the day before. But Monday was only one of several days I've seen a troop of visitors leave the course damaged. I'm sick of it.

I suppose it's only human that people care less about what's not their own. It still just pisses me off.

L.O.F.T

check out the sh*t job this tit did and what I see alot of people doing....twisting that is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVtndgc4w_A&feature=related

makes it twice as bad and pulls the roots. Can u imagine this twat repairing 3 or four ball makes per green!!!!!

golf_caddy

always try to do a few on each hole

arg

I joined a club last year and was surprised that, as a new member, I wasn't informed about how to repair pitch marks properly and about general course care. For example, I used to take the odd divot with my practice swing having just meant to brush the grass, until someone told me that my practice strokes shouldn't come close to damaging the course. I really appreciated the guy telling me (it seems so obvious that I shouldn't have been doing it in the first place now), although I'd imagine the vast majority of people would avoid potential confrontation/emabarassment at all costs. There should be some form of induction for any new members that highlights this type of issue. From reading this thread it sems that juniors are taught properly but there's plenty of us older guys who start playing a little later on in life that should be shown when they join.
I also think that free pitch mark repair tools should be made available at the first tee. I know that I tee can be used but I find that the tool does a much better and faster job; it would also show that the club is serious about maintaining the quality of the greens. It might also be useful to play a video in the clubhouse every once in a while (during ad breaks) that demonstrates how to properly repair pitch marks (proper etiquette wouldn't be amiss from my experience either!)

BunkerMentality

arg wrote: »

I joined a club last year and was surprised that, as a new member, I wasn't informed about how to repair pitch marks properly and about general course care. For example, I used to take the odd divot with my practice swing having just meant to brush the grass, until someone told me that my practice strokes shouldn't come close to damaging the course. I really appreciated the guy telling me (it seems so obvious that I shouldn't have been doing it in the first place now), although I'd imagine the vast majority of people would avoid potential confrontation/emabarassment at all costs. There should be some form of induction for any new members that highlights this type of issue. From reading this thread it sems that juniors are taught properly but there's plenty of us older guys who start playing a little later on in life that should be shown when they join.
I also think that free pitch mark repair tools should be made available at the first tee. I know that I tee can be used but I find that the tool does a much better and faster job; it would also show that the club is serious about maintaining the quality of the greens. It might also be useful to play a video in the clubhouse every once in a while (during ad breaks) that demonstrates how to properly repair pitch marks (proper etiquette wouldn't be amiss from my experience either!)

In Sweden when you join a club and get your official handicap you have to sit through some theory lessons about rules and conduct on the course and pass a test to get a "green card", like a golfing license. Always thought it was a pretty good idea.