Evaluating ballmark repair tools

One of the most interesting new studies on ballmark repair tools was recently completed by Jason Nemitz and Cale Bigelow (Purdue), in cooperation with Adam Moeller of the USGA. They compared four different tools, and found big differences among them in terms of the speed with which ballmark scars healed. The results confirmed those from an earlier study on ballmark repair that was conducted by Dr. Jack Fry and colleagues at Kansas State University.

The Nemitz study was conducted on…