Last week at StoneRidge Golf Club in Stillwater, we mentioned the starter handed out and recommended we use a new divot repair tool: the GreenFix Ball Mark Elimination System (pictured above).

You can watch the instructional video on the GreenFix site, but basically you just push the divot mark back towards the middle instead of lift and twisting like other tools. It took a few times to get used to it, but the end results seemed to be good.

Scott Turtinen, the executive director of the Minnesota Golf Course Superintendents Association, said that he hasn’t personally used the GreenFix tool, but said Spring Hill Golf Club (site of the upcoming Gopher Invitational) uses them and are very pleased with the results.

“The MGCSA believes that any player that fixes their mark is great and any tool that would help them do this is a good thing,” said Turtinen.