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Old 09-14-2013, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by zcaveman View Post
As long as you fill in the divots, you can hit the ball from the turf. It is really frustrating to get to the tee box and not be able to find a place to tee off from with all of the holes in the ground from people not filling in the divots.

For Russ, if you want to use broken tees, why don't you police the tee boxes and put all of the broken tees in a bag and carry them around with you. Then you will always have one to tee off with.

Z
I try - sometimes I can't even find one! Believe me I try to keep the tee neat. Just goes against my nature to waste. In fact I have used my plastic tee for over 1 year on all drives (with my driver) on championship courses.

As far as replacing divots go - anyone who DOESN'T deserves at least a strong warning. Actually my only gripe with the ambassadors is that it seems like they are told to do things like pick up broken tees (and I see them do it all time) but I wonder how many times they watch for unfilled divots? Or why, when I play first tee time in the morning, do I see unrepaired ball marks, and sometimes many, on the greens? If I were an ambassador I'd rather spend my time doing these repairs as it means a lot more to the golf course than picking up tees every 1/2 hour.