Course Care: Pitch Marks

It is everyone’s responsibility to take care of the course and that involves repairing pitch marks where appropriate. If you require education on the proper way to repair a pitch mark, please see a member of our Golf Service Centre team for a short tutorial.

If you, and every golfer correctly repaired two pitch marks on every green, how many would be left? Zero.

The difference is up to you.  Fix yours, and the player ahead of you who swears it isn’t theirs!

If you repair a pitch mark badly it can actually do a lot more harm than if you had left it alone, so it’s essential you know how to do it correctly

It’s not just for the sake of the greens either, there is nothing more infuriating for a golfer than to see a perfect putt knocked off line, especially through no fault of their own.

But it is alarming how many golfers seemingly neglect to repair a pitch mark, don’t know how to repair a pitch mark in the correct way, or perhaps think they are not allowed to because of the Rules of Golf.

As you can see below, the end product of a badly repaired pitch mark is an ugly brown scar left on the green that not only looks awful, but that also affects the roll of yours and other peoples’ putts.

 

 

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