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Golf divot tools are a useful item of golfing lit that is used to repair the scuffs in the grass caused when gofers brush it with their clubs or when golf balls land on the putting green. Keeping the grass in good condition is important, but it is not just a job for the greenkeepers.
Divot Tool. A typical ballmark repair tool, often called a divot tool. Sports. The term divot tool refers to the two-pronged metal or hard plastic tool used to repair ballmarks on the surface of the putting green. Note that we said a divot tool is used to repair ballmarks, not divots. Divots occur in the fairway (or teeing ground) and a divot tool has nothing to do with them. Hence, divot tool is actually the wrong name for the tool, which is properly called a ballmark tool or ballmark repair tool..