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Old 04-12-2010, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by iaudit View Post
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.
Ahhh, so that's the problem - too many good golfers in TV. Will you at least acknowledge that use of a tee minimizes the divot? In watching the Masters this weekend, I don't recall that many divots when they teed off from the par 3s. Perhaps I just missed it.