# Necessary destruction

> Do groundskeepers despise divots?

**Published by:** [Occasional Observations](https://paragraph.com/@oo/)
**Published on:** 2025-05-01
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@oo/necessary-destruction

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Despite its reputation as a quiet, peaceful pastime, golf is a destructive sport. Finely-manicured divots flying down the fairway. Corduroy sands scattered onto the greens. Bent clubs at the bottom of the lake. It all happens as part of the game. As a groundskeeper, it can be easy to fall into the distraction that the quality of the course is my end-all. But the course is there for the game of golf. The purpose of a pristine tee box is not to remain as such, but to enable quality drives. Destruction is both the cost and the byproduct of playing golf well. A golf course is the setting, not the story; a prop, not a player.

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