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There are an overwhelming number of people who move to T.V. who never played golf in life prior to coming, & who have little idea of what should be done on the course.

They play golf beacuse its "free" and learn to play via lessons, friends help, or by trial and error.

This has a two-fold deliterious effect on the courses:
1) the course gets hacked up more and
2) they have never been told about filling divots, how to rake a bunker, or about repairing ball marks. Not always careless, just don't know or understand.

Add this to the fact that many experienced golfers never fix up after themselves, the courses get beat up pretty good.

With all the information about us on T.V. computers, it might be helpful if the starters go over these 3 elementery rules, before the 1st 5-10 rounds people play here.

We all had to learn sometime, somehow.