Were you shown how to repair a pitchmark?

[Pin-seeker]

How much revenue would all the magazines lose (GM, Golf World, Todays Golfer, Golf International, National Club Golfer, Bunkered etc) if they allocated one page for a month to demonstrate the correct way, tied in with a video demonstration on their website. I know there is suppose to be a national repair your pitch mark day, but it has hardly been promoted nationwide (no disrespect to the efforts the organisers have put in so far!) but if all the magazines and social media came together to really push this I wonder if the golfing public could be educated properly

It's not global warming,or elephant poaching were talking about here. People should repair pitch marks but lets not get carried away.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

It's not global warming,or elephant poaching were talking about here. People should repair pitch marks but lets not get carried away.

But they don't and clearly they don't do it properly either so surely anything that may raise awareness may, at least for a week of two, improve the quality of greens at clubs across the country

 

[Pin-seeker]

But they don't and clearly they don't do it properly either so surely anything that may raise awareness may, at least for a week of two, improve the quality of greens at clubs across the country

Maybe I'm just fortunate that most people repair pitch marks at the courses I play as I don't see it as been a major issue. Can't understand why people don't do it,it takes all of 5secs.

 

[palindromicbob]

There must be an invention for everything.

http://www.greensaver.ie/

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Guy at my club ignored a massive pitchmark near his ball with a comment of "it's not mine". Some people just cannot be helped. I always try and do one on every green I ever go on.

 

[el marko]

I don't see why clubs cant give away pitchmark repairers with the teetime, or have a bucket of them on the first tee. 1000 cheap ones from china will cost nothing.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Guy at my club ignored a massive pitchmark near his ball with a comment of "it's not mine". Some people just cannot be helped. I always try and do one on every green I ever go on.

I'd have given him a pretty friendly but serious bollocking - folk need to be pulled up and made to feel embarrassed about such behaviour - and we should not be frightened or worried to do so or 'cowed' by any 'status' they have or feel they have in the club.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I don't see why clubs cant give away pitchmark repairers with the teetime, or have a bucket of them on the first tee. 1000 cheap ones from china will cost nothing.

Au contraire - you shouldn't be allowed onto the course if you cannot present a pitch mark repairer to your PPs when meeting up on 1st tee. Perhaps that should even become standard practice - like showing your PPs your ball and describing the mark you have made on it.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Doesn't help when one of the biggest names in golf's putter offshoot gives away a pivot tool with its putters, as by its very name & design a pivot tool encourages people to lift rather than push.

There are a couple of designs of repairer that encourage pushing rather than lifting but they are damn hard to find, perhaps if they were more readily available the situation would improve.

 

[el marko]

Au contraire - you shouldn't be allowed onto the course if you cannot present a pitch mark repairer to your PPs when meeting up on 1st tee. Perhaps that should even become standard practice - like showing your PPs your ball and describing the mark you have made on it.

To be honest i think the problem lies outside of competition games. I would hope everyone that plays in their clubs competition would replace every pitchmark and divot they make seeing as its their club!

 

[londonlewis]

How much revenue would all the magazines lose (GM, Golf World, Todays Golfer, Golf International, National Club Golfer, Bunkered etc) if they allocated one page for a month to demonstrate the correct way, tied in with a video demonstration on their website. I know there is suppose to be a national repair your pitch mark day, but it has hardly been promoted nationwide (no disrespect to the efforts the organisers have put in so far!) but if all the magazines and social media came together to really push this I wonder if the golfing public could be educated properly

They could easily have a sponsored video by a business that creates pitch mark repairers - made in YouTube and embedded on their site. The cost of that to the magazines would be nothing as you would get the pitch mark repair company to make it. You then sell advertising space in the magazine to said company with a written instruction on how to repair a pitch mark.
Total cost, nothing.

I'm confident it can be done, confident it probably won't be done.

 

[londonlewis]

Guy at my club ignored a massive pitchmark near his ball with a comment of "it's not mine". Some people just cannot be helped. I always try and do one on every green I ever go on.

He needs a slap.
Can not stand it when people say 'it's not my job'

 

[Slab]

There must be an invention for everything.

http://www.greensaver.ie/

Fabulous line on that site..."Green keepers the world over will tell you that 90% of pitch marks are either not fixed properly or not fixed at all"

Erm surely greenkeepers only see un-reparied or incorrectly repaired pitch marks! The good repairs are virtually invisible

 

[Robobum]

I'd have given him a pretty friendly but serious bollocking - folk need to be pulled up and made to feel embarrassed about such behaviour - and we should not be frightened or worried to do so or 'cowed' by any 'status' they have or feel they have in the club.

Surely some compassion and understanding would be more appropriate. An understandable mistake that is easily made?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Surely some compassion and understanding would be more appropriate. An understandable mistake that is easily made?

The limit to my compassion might be to help him extracate himself from the gorse bush he had surprisingly found himself in. Seriously though - I would give any player who acted in that way a hefty verbal rap on the knuckles. Completely out of order and worthy of being reported to the secretary so that said member could be firmly reminded that his duties to other members and players include repairing AT ALL TIMES pitch marks found unrepaired.

 

[USER1999]

A surprising number of people repair pitch marks by bashing the green with a putter.

 

[Hallsy]

A surprising number of people repair pitch marks by bashing the green with a putter.

I do tap with my putter after repairing but I don't use my putter to actually try and repair it

 

[louise_a]

I repaired quite a good number of pitch marks the correct way today, some mine a lot made by someone else.

 

[Foxholer]

I don't see why clubs cant give away pitchmark repairers with the teetime, or have a bucket of them on the first tee. 1000 cheap ones from china will cost nothing.

I'm also a fan of this. Club could 'sell' the space on them in the same way as hey do on cards - and probably with more visibility for the sponsor!