Well the hope is over. I have watched the tees with divot boxes closely this year and it did not matter if we had daily play, juniors, seniors, member tournaments or even a WSGA Tournament less than 10% of the divots on a par 3 were filled. Often I would have 3 or 4 filled divots spaced between 40 to 50 empty holes. How can a member of the club take a gully like that and then not fill the divot when the box is right there?
After 7 years of investing in nice divot boxes and all the thanks in the world to the customers who use them religiously do we really need them out there? For now they are just gone for fall as our staff shrinks by over half this week and we do not need to invest important labor hours in moving the unused divot boxes ever time we move the markers. We are considering not even putting them out next year and just reinvesting the time we spend moving the boxes is more important jobs. I hate to let the golfers off the hook but right now we spend teams of divot fillers out every 10 days or so to fill all the par 3 and heavy use par 4 tee boxes anyway.
Again we appreciate all of you who do fill divots and the bottles will still be available on the carts so you can do so. I also appreciate all the people who fix their ball marks but if every person who told me they fix three or four per green actually did, we would not have any left. But that is a story for a different day .....
In this picture taken after a high profile event with local players
only 4 of more than 45 divots were filled. (I couldn't capture all 45 divots in the camera)
And it looks like one person filled the three because they are right next to each other.
