If My Golf Ball Lands In A Divot How Can I Play It? (Video) - by Natalie Adams
If My Golf Ball Lands In A Divot How Can I Play It? (Video) - by Natalie Adams

If my golf ball lands in a divot how can I play it? There’s nothing more annoying than hitting a great golf shot walking down the fairway and finding that the great golf shot you’ve hit has been really penalized because you’ve landed in somebody’s divot and it hasn’t been replaced. Unfortunately in golf you can’t just move the ball, you have to play the ball as it lies. It’s just bad luck that it rolled into a divot. So learning how to play you’ll still be able to hit a great shot from it and not be penalized for a bit of misfortune. A good way to practice this when you’re at the range is remove the tee peg from the mat and it will leave a hole and then you can start to nestle the golf ball down into that hole. So it’s starting to sort of simulate the conditions you’d find when the ball is lower than the surface around it.

The main thing you’ve got to do to hit a good golf shot from a divot is to make sure you’re hitting down onto the ball. You definitely need a downward strike. So whatever club you’re taking in order to generate that downward strike play the ball slightly further back in the stance than you usually would. That I will encourage you to connect on that down swing and really set the hands forward. So work on creating a straight line from the left shoulder, down the left arm and into the shaft at set up. This has got the shaft leaning forward and make sure that your nose is set on the left hand side of the golf ball. You should now feel you’ve got slightly more weight on the left side and that’s going to encourage you that as you swing back it will encourage you to just pick the club head up slightly steeper than you usually do. And this slightly steeper back swing action means that as you attack back down on the ball you’ll have a steep angle of attack a steep descent back to the ball and the club head will be travelling downwards and really travel down and connect with the ball when its down into the divot. Okay so we’ll have a look at doing that set the hands forward nose on the left of the ball slightly steeper back swing, just picking the club head up. Hit down and follow through, make sure that you’re turning through the shot with your hips as you strike through, and you should find that you start hitting some really high shots even out of bad lies such as finishing in the divot. 2014-05-21

If my golf ball lands in a divot how can I play it? There’s nothing more annoying than hitting a great golf shot walking down the fairway and finding that the great golf shot you’ve hit has been really penalized because you’ve landed in somebody’s divot and it hasn’t been replaced. Unfortunately in golf you can’t just move the ball, you have to play the ball as it lies. It’s just bad luck that it rolled into a divot. So learning how to play you’ll still be able to hit a great shot from it and not be penalized for a bit of misfortune. A good way to practice this when you’re at the range is remove the tee peg from the mat and it will leave a hole and then you can start to nestle the golf ball down into that hole. So it’s starting to sort of simulate the conditions you’d find when the ball is lower than the surface around it.

The main thing you’ve got to do to hit a good golf shot from a divot is to make sure you’re hitting down onto the ball. You definitely need a downward strike. So whatever club you’re taking in order to generate that downward strike play the ball slightly further back in the stance than you usually would. That I will encourage you to connect on that down swing and really set the hands forward. So work on creating a straight line from the left shoulder, down the left arm and into the shaft at set up. This has got the shaft leaning forward and make sure that your nose is set on the left hand side of the golf ball. You should now feel you’ve got slightly more weight on the left side and that’s going to encourage you that as you swing back it will encourage you to just pick the club head up slightly steeper than you usually do.

And this slightly steeper back swing action means that as you attack back down on the ball you’ll have a steep angle of attack a steep descent back to the ball and the club head will be travelling downwards and really travel down and connect with the ball when its down into the divot. Okay so we’ll have a look at doing that set the hands forward nose on the left of the ball slightly steeper back swing, just picking the club head up. Hit down and follow through, make sure that you’re turning through the shot with your hips as you strike through, and you should find that you start hitting some really high shots even out of bad lies such as finishing in the divot.