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H O W T O R E P A I R A P I T C H M A R K
D I D Y O U K N O W ?
A pitchmark left unrepaired for 10 minutes or longer takes 15 Then push the edge of the ball mark toward the centre,
days to recover, whereas a pitchmark repaired within 5 using your ball mark repair tool in a gentle twisting motion
minutes completely recovers within 24 hours.
WARNING!
This is where golfers who try to repair ball marks usually
mess up. Many golfers believe the way to fix a ball mark is
to insert the tool at an angle, so the prongs are beneath the
H O W T O R E P A I R A P I T C H M A R K
center of the crater, and then to use the tool as a lever to
Take your ball mark repair tool and insert the prongs into the push the bottom of the ball mark back up even with the
turf at the edge of the depression. Do NOT insert the prongs surface. Do not do this!
into the depression itself, but at the rim of the depression. . Pushing the bottom of the depression upward only tears the
roots and kills the grass.
