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Video Tutorial: Repairing Your Pitch Marks Correctly

Written by  Andrew Wild on Sunday, 19 June 2011
A pitch mark is a small dent in the green, made as the ball impacts the grass. Andrew Wild shows you how to repair these - and why it's important to do so.




The important thing is that we need to repair it fairly quickly. The stats are very simple. If you repair it straight away then it's fully repaired within 24 hours. If you leave it, it will make the green bobbly and it takes three weeks to repair - so it's important to repair your pitch marks properly and quickly.

You'll need a pitch fork, and then the way to repair the pitch mark properly is to go in from the side, and push the grass towards the centre of the pitch mark going around the centre. If you pull upwards, you're likely to break the roots of the grass which will kill the grass very quickly. So go around to the centre, pulling in the grass until it's nice and level, and then you can tap it down with your putter. You should always leave the grass as if you'd never been there.
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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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