[
UK
/dˈɪvɒt/
]
NOUN
- a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club)
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(golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke
it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot
How To Use divot In A Sentence
- The driver turned a hard right, barely avoiding a large divot, and suddenly they were on a street filled with high-rises. MINUTES TO BURN
- Fillers add volume under the surface of the skin to plump up creases, divots and hollows from the inside out.
- Believe it or not, players can learn as much from a brief examination of their divots as from any computer analysis of their swing.
- Combine recycled grass clippings instead of grass seed with sand for your divot mix.
- 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.
- With vinyl flooring, it is vital that the subfloor underneath is free from debris and also has no divots or holes.
- Bedi spun it like a top, the ball occasionally taking a divot out of the wet mud that passed for a wicket.
- He rarely takes big divots, so it's not a shot he fears.
- Normally I take big divots, but these wedges don't dig at all.
- 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.