Just like ball-marks on greens, it’s important that fairway divots are repaired immediately and done correctly.  Too often the divots are not being repaired at all or way too much sand is being used to fill the divot.  When the sand is mounded, it is difficult to determine where the divot begins or ends and can create an unfair lie if your ball comes to rest next to it.  Secondly, when we mow the fairways the sand gets into the reels and it dulls the blades.
     The best way I have found to repair bermuda grass divots is to chop in the edges of the divots with your club and use very little sand to fill in the void.  If done correctly, most of the time the repair doesn’t need any sand at all and typically the divot is unnoticeable once completed.
     If everyone starts to follow these instructions, our issues with divots will begin to improve relatively quickly.