[golfbulldog]

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Bill Melhorn maintains that a divot is not really necessary giving the example of Harry Vardon who "played all day in the same divot."

But Bill Melhorn also advocated his Grass whip thing..no? That is all about learning force manipulation rather than throwing the clubface at the ball to develop a golf swing.... he understood force if not the orientation that Homer prescribed...more F. rather than G.O.L.F.

...Vardon's hickory shaft era swing may have been a reason for his lack of down???