Divots

It is fortunate for the rich golfer who started in a country club. Here they started and practiced their golf swing on real turf. With them, they must have mimicked what they see on TV, the divots flying after every shot. Divots to them become second nature - their muscles always anticipating that dig-into-ground feeling.

Pity us poor golfers. We bought our first golf set from the "SALE" rack and can only practice the swing on a piece of carpet inside the bedroom. We even have to use the shortest club and purposely flatten the swing to avoid hitting the ceiling of the bedroom. Worse is we learned to instinctively jerked up the left shoulder after hitting the plastic ball lest we ruin our floor. It is not unusual that the Missus to find scratches on the floor and ceiling. On my case you can even find a hole in my dropped ceiling caused by the rubber trainer that is not suppose to fly out of the head of the club. I still wonder where that rubber trainer went when it created that hole. After thirty years + years, it has to be still in there.

Well it is time for me to learn to make a divot. I am still not a member of a country club so I cannot learn it from real turf. I must learn it on artificial turf in the driving range - I can afford that now... How do I do it, that is the question.