Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
If you were fairly near the green you may have been better off giving it a clout with the putter, depending on what ground you had to cover.
Ball finishes on top of an upturned divot?
- Thread starter delc
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Not possible, as I had to go over a bunker!
williamalex1
Money List Winner
Hit the little white ball first - job done.
It's a well established principle.
Any issues are in your head rather than real.
If your ball had been sitting under the divot I would have more sympathy
That happened to me once, the flap was still attached and lying over my ball. Next time i'll declare it unplayable
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SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
bobmac
Major Champion
I did hit the little white ball first, which is how I thinned it!
If you hit the little ball first then the big ball, you wont thin it.
Doesn't that rather depend on how much you hit the little ball before the big one? I was rather afraid of catching the divot first and fatting the ball into the intervening bunker, and over-compensated!
bobmac
Major Champion
Kellfire
Blackballed
Ok, as always you're giving half the story. What? A thin doesn't mean the club ever touches the ground in my opinion.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
What's the difference between having to play off a divot and having to play off loose twigs or pine cones/debris? I could ask the question in the context of the rules; the shot; and the fairness of it all. But I won't as we'd be here for ever. Let's just say - there may be many differences, but they have one common factor - rub of the green requiring careful shot selection and course management decisions to be made. Though perhaps just the opposite scenario to finding your ball resting in a hole in the ground that can't be put defined as a animal scrape and so has to be played - somehow. Damn - golf is such a dratted unfair game at times
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bobmac
Major Champion
If you hit the little ball then the big ball, you must have a downward angle of attack at impact. If you thin it, the club has a flat or upward angle of attack at impact.
Therefor, if Del tries to hit the little ball first then the big ball, he cant thin it.
TheDoctor
Club Champion
A ball resting on top of a divot is similar to a ball sitting up in the rough - you have a chance to almost go underneath the ball in both situations so you just have to adapt and play the shot as best you can
Tough break but you just have to live with it
Tough break but you just have to live with it
Three
Tour Rookie
Just grip down a bit and nip it off the top.
bobmac
Major Champion
Surely a thin is just a failed top!
A top is when you get too far in front of the ball and the club hits the upper part of the ball.
A thin is normally when you stay on your back foot and the clubhead passes your hands and hits the ball on the way up
