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Originally Posted by NJblue
Here's my pet peeve: we live by a tee box on a par 3 hole on an executive course. It's amazing to me the number of golfers who do not hit off a tee. Instead they just drop the ball onto the tee box and hit from there (perhaps thinking it is good practice for a fairway shot) - taking a divet with their shot. Even if they then put sand in the divet, this scar will take months to heal. Add up the number of people that do this in a concentrated area and it is no wonder that the tee boxes begin to look like moonscapes.
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Any good golfer will normally take a divot with an iron, even when using a tee. The correct way to hit a golf ball with an iron is with a descending blow such that the golf ball rides up the face of the club and the club strikes the turf in front of the ball. Watch a professional tournament sometime and notice the condition of the teeing area on the par 3's, even though the professionals use tees.