(1) Then came the click as his iron met the ball and the immediate shower of turf that followed as his club gouged a divot .

(2) Hit with a descending blow, and even take a small divot .

(3) Jack Nicklaus, one of the game's best long-iron players, never seemed to take a divot .

(4) Instead of looking at the downside of things, when you walk into the fairway and find your drive in a divot , look on the positive side.

(5) If your ball finds a divot to rest in

(6) Then pick out something close - a discoloration in the grass, a bush, an old divot - that's on the line of the shaft.

(7) He hit a wedge shot and carved a hefty divot out of the fairway

(8) After every shot from the fairway, I always take a quick look at the divot I just made.

(9) If you are creating giant-size, King Kong divots , you're digging too deeply into the ground.

(10) This should be evident in the shape and depth of your divots .

(11) The one rule that I think is absolutely absurd is when they fill divots with sand and you're not allowed to lift your ball out of it.

(12) Practice hitting from divots , so you won't be in shock when you land in one.

(13) I may be bald, but I'll never glue one of those divots on my head, and that's a promise.

(14) If your divots are too deep with your irons or if you're taking divots with your driver, you need to flatten out your swing.

(15) Normally I take big divots , but these wedges don't dig at all.

(16) Believe it or not, players can learn as much from a brief examination of their divots as from any computer analysis of their swing.

(17) Practice on grass if you can, and check your divots .

(18) Excluding the cost of fairway seeding, a typical program with bentgrass for greens, and divots on tees and fairways is about $2,500.

(19) If your divots are short and deep, it's because you're using too much right hand.

(20) With full swings, try to make divots on the target side of the line.

(21) When you practice on natural grass, use the divots from your previous shots as guides for your next one.

(22) He rarely takes big divots , so it's not a shot he fears.