Fixing Pitch Marks

One of the most frustrating things for golf pros everywhere to deal with is the damage caused to the surface of a green by pitch marks.

Well, actually, it isn’t the damage that’s frustrating. The damage is inevitable. What’s frustrating is when players are too lazy to repair those pitch marks.

Fixing pitch marks is simple: all you have to do is bend over and stick your pitchfork in the ground a few times, and then tap the mound down with the bottom of your putter. It really isn’t a whole lot of work.

The long and short of it is this:

1. An unfixed pitch mark damages the greens mowers – which are expensive pieces of equipment.

2. An unfixed pitch mark leaves ugly dead spots on the green – and the greens are expensive to maintain.

Please just have enough respect for your fellow players and for the golf course where you’re playing to bend over a repair your damage. If you feel like it, fix an extra one or two on each green, because someone playing ahead of you will have no doubt left their pitch marks un-fixed. There’s not much more too it than that.

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