Meaning & use
golf divot
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Meaning
nouncountablesport
A piece of grass and soil torn out of the ground by a golf club as the ball is struck, leaving a small hole.
Grammar: Countable: one golf divot, several golf divots.
Patterns
- take a divot
- repair a divot
- land in a divot
His iron shot sent a golf divot flying ten feet down the fairway.
My ball rolled into an old golf divot and I had a terrible lie.
Please fill every golf divot with sand and seed before you leave the tee.
Word forms
| plural | golf divots |
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Common combinations
- take a divot
- Good players take a neat divot just after the ball.
- replace a divot
- Always replace the divot and press it down with your foot.
- fill a divot
- The groundskeeper told us to fill each divot with the sand mix.
- land in a divot
- Bad luck: my drive landed in a divot.
- deep divot
- He left a deep divot behind the ball.
Synonyms and how they differ
- divot
- Divot is the usual shorter form; golf divot just makes the sport clear for readers who might think of other turf damage.
- turf scar
- Turf scar is a looser, descriptive phrase and is not a standard golf term.
- pitch mark
- A pitch mark is a dent made by a ball landing on the green, whereas a golf divot is cut out by the club.
Word family
Commonly confused: golf divot or pitch mark?
golf divot vs pitch mark
A pitch mark is a dent made by a ball on the green; a golf divot is a chunk of turf taken by the club.
Practice
After his swing, the player carefully put the ___ back in place and pressed it down.
Choose one answer.
A golf divot is the piece of turf that is cut out and can be replaced. A ball, tee or bag cannot be pressed back into the ground in this way.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “golf divot”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.