Hitting the ground when you swing promotes center contact and allows the ball to launch high. Here's how to practice doing it.

A: Some people want to take a divot and some people want to know if it's wrong not to take one. I look at it this way. First with your irons, you always want to compress the ball that means there ...

Don't let your round get ruined by a ball sitting in a divot. Top 100 Teacher Krista Dunton explains how to hit this intimidating shot.

Don't let your round get ruined by a ball sitting in a divot. Top 100 Teacher Krista Dunton explains how to hit this intimidating shot. The post Ball sitting in a divot?

OK, here is how to hit a golf ball out of a divot. Set up with the ball farther back in your stance, to encourage a steeper attack at impact.

Next, feel like your chest is “covering the ball” at impact. You can see that my shirt buttons are directly over where the divot starts—that’s what covering it means.

A good divot is usually a sign of a good iron shot. Since the clubs are designed to hit the ball on the descent, irons usually scrape off a thin layer of the turf in front of the ball. They often ...

It feels unfair that you can't take a free drop when you ball ends up in somebody else's divot hole. But here's the reason why the rule remains in place ...

Overfilling a divot can damage mowers and create poor playing conditions. There are many ways golfers can impact play, not raking footprints in a bunker or improperly fixing ball marks immediately ...