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Video Tutorial: Divot etiquette

Written by  Andrew Wild on Thursday, 28 April 2011
Knocked out a huge divot during a drive? Andrew Wild's divot etiquette will help keep your local golf course looking and playing tip top.    



We are both fortunate and privileged to play on some of the most lovely golf courses in the world and part of that deal when you play these courses is that you need to keep them in good order.

So as you can see here I’m going to make a swing, take a divot, which is a piece of grass taken after I have hit the golf ball.

And what we must then do is retrieve that divot, put it back into its original place, tread around it so it meshes back into the grass, and that will mean that the grass repairs so much quicker and keeps the course in great order throughout the year.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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