Repair Ball Mark Properly! Shawn Clement #1 Most Popular Teacher on You Tube

www.shawnclementgolf.com Take a golf etiquette lesson from Shawn Clement, Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre and CPGA Teaching Pro with a green thumb, who shows you how to please your local greenskeeper by repairing your ball mark the proper way!

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Sports

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• Golf
• Etiquette
• Repair
• Ball
• Mark

[mattw1261980]

Thank you for posting! My brother showed me how to do it this way last week (after I swallowed my pride - & asked him), because I was never 100% sure. For some reason I find it very satisfying to walk up & see a nice sized divot the proper trajectory makes. Hell, I even look around & fix previous golfer's divots - doesn't bother me at all, only the fact that they would leave them there. They should put a diagram on scorecards, showing the proper technique, a lot of eaten-up greens out there.

[clemshaw]

Way to go Matt! You must have a good green thumb around the house! We won't tell your wife though, she might expand the "honey do" list! LOL  Shawn

[rne1971]

Good one. So pleased to not see one where the "expert" shows us how to lift the turf up from underneath or (heaven forbid) twist the turf into the pitch mark.

Question: where the ball comes in at an angle (yes, I have hit the green on occasion!), one side of the pitch mark is raised higher than the other - sort of an oval mark, rather than round - what would you recommend in terms of moving the turf back? Would you start on the high side (i.e. away from the ball's entry point)?

[clemshaw]

Either way works just fine; sometimes when that piece of turf is too torn, I will just tear it out as it will not take; then I go ahead and close the wound;

Great question! Shawn

[ficdawg]

As a Asst. Superintendent at a Golf Club, even my Superintendent states that it is O.K to repair it buy lifting the the turf,therefore(detaching) the root from the plant! great Video thats how I was taught to repair a ball mark~ this video confirms what I've been trying to explain!!!!

[clemshaw]

Thanks for that great comment;

I know, I see so many pros doing it wrong...it is so important to take care of things well; like in the movie "The Last Samurai"! All the best, Shawn

[marpool]

wow this is great...if only the balls that i hit could hit the green

[localfitch]

Very informative. Thanks for taking the time to explain and post this... it might be an uphill battle though to get more golfers to do the same. Keep up the fight.

[JonnersEvans]

Thumbs up if you take pride in repairing your pitch mark after a good shot.

[fiftypeehead]

I've always repaired mine and other peoples pitchmarks but never really knew how to do it. I do now. Thanks for this vid

[dschultz6072]

required video before you play on the course i say, haha.

[charlespiette]

I've been playing for 20 years, and I've never repaired my ball marks the right way. Thanks a lot Shawn!

[oakleyflak]

@ritaharris As long as you fix it

[oakleyflak]

i hate wen ppl dont replace em' it takes 5secs if you bey a 5$ tool

[torch357]

so many incorrect tutorials of this on youtube. they need to make people watch this video before golfing as you see a ton of the brown spots he mentioned. also, we have those pole mounted - four pronged fixers on our greens mowers but they seem to work the same way as somebody lifting the turf. not totally sold on those as i tend to bring my own divot tool with me and do it that way.

[flips73182]

With all the stupid shit on YouTube, this is one of the best videos out there, ever weekend golfer in the world needs to watch this.

[AlexJThrasher]

Quick and informative..thanks!