Great post yoda....that's why if you position the ball towards the middle of your stance and you truly drive the clubhead into the ground TO LOW POINT....you'll have one looooooooooooooooong divot
Right you are, Jim. At our Long Island school this past summer, Ted Fort and I passed on adjacent fairways. He holds up by its tail-end a bluegrass divot a full eighteen inches long, and says:
"Hey, Yoda. Look at this beaver pelt!"
Down South, we're used to Bermuda grass divots that basically explode. This was a whole lot more fun!