Look At Depth And Direction Of Divots For Golf Swing Information (Video) - by Peter Finch
Look At Depth And Direction Of Divots For Golf Swing Information (Video) - by Peter Finch

A lot of golfers get frustrated when they’re on the golf course of hitting bad shots and not understanding what has happened to cause that bad shot. One of the keys that a lot of golfers can use which is right at their disposal, is the shape and the dispersion, the direction and the depth of that divots. It is one thing that a lot of people ignore, they just go pick the divot up or replace it or fill it in with sand depending what you’re course wants you to do. Not a lot of players actually take the time to say, what has happened with that divot? Where is it pointing? How deep is it, and what can that tell me? It’s a very general overview which we’ll go into very, very more in depth in a moment, speaking about that. What we want to be seeing with a divot, if it’s a good shot, is the club to be hitting the ball and then entering the turf just afterwards, going down to only a depth of no more than really half an inch and then pulling up a size of divot which is about the side of a twenty dollar bill, if you can do that and that divot is pointing down towards your intended target, generally speaking your path would have been good, a very neutral position to deliver the club into impact and you would have hit the ball first in the turf, the club ball could of bottom out after the ball which is why you will be hitting the ball then the turf.

That is a very general rule as to what you want to be seeing or what you want to be doing with your iron shots when hitting of divots. However, if we get a little bit more into it and explain exactly when they point in different directions and what that means and what you can be seeing form the depth, we should be able to arm you with a few more tools that you can use yourself out on the golf course to distinguish what is happening when you hit the shot. 2016-08-31

A lot of golfers get frustrated when they’re on the golf course of hitting bad shots and not understanding what has happened to cause that bad shot. One of the keys that a lot of golfers can use which is right at their disposal, is the shape and the dispersion, the direction and the depth of that divots. It is one thing that a lot of people ignore, they just go pick the divot up or replace it or fill it in with sand depending what you’re course wants you to do. Not a lot of players actually take the time to say, what has happened with that divot? Where is it pointing? How deep is it, and what can that tell me? It’s a very general overview which we’ll go into very, very more in depth in a moment, speaking about that. What we want to be seeing with a divot, if it’s a good shot, is the club to be hitting the ball and then entering the turf just afterwards, going down to only a depth of no more than really half an inch and then pulling up a size of divot which is about the side of a twenty dollar bill, if you can do that and that divot is pointing down towards your intended target, generally speaking your path would have been good, a very neutral position to deliver the club into impact and you would have hit the ball first in the turf, the club ball could of bottom out after the ball which is why you will be hitting the ball then the turf.

That is a very general rule as to what you want to be seeing or what you want to be doing with your iron shots when hitting of divots. However, if we get a little bit more into it and explain exactly when they point in different directions and what that means and what you can be seeing form the depth, we should be able to arm you with a few more tools that you can use yourself out on the golf course to distinguish what is happening when you hit the shot.