Today, the maintenance department is spending 16 man hours and a small truck worth of sand to fill up neglected divots. The fairways are not too bad, but the first cut of rough is terrible. I played this past Friday and the first cut of rough is the favorite landing spot of every one of my tee shots. I first thought the rough was just clumpy with old rye and underlying, semi-dormant bermudgrass. I then noticed that all the holes were in the same direction and were actually divots that had not been filled.Perhaps some people believe that divot sand is only for the fairways. I would like to encourage you to use divot sand anywhere you remove a chunk of earth. You will be replacing your divot with much better soil, the healing process will be faster, and other balls are less likely to end up in a hole. There are refill stations located at every single tee and we try to keep those filled up.
If we can get the golfers to take care of properly raking bunkers after play, filling divots, and fixing ballparks, we would free up well over 20 hours of labor per week. We have a very lengthy to-do list, so if you can take some weight off our back, we will not waste the extra time.
