Thursday and Friday there are morning waves and afternoon waves that swap so the early guys Thursday get more recovery time that night, by luck of the draw, (which also IMHO should also be a stat kept by the tours so the same folks don't always get assigned to one wave or the other, but as close to evenly split as reasonably possible), but the chances of finding a fairway divot is almost even, taken as an average, comparing who and how many players went out in front of you each day. That said, the folks who barely made the cut get way fewer divots on Saturday morning than the leaders later that day exactly because the barely-mades are out there MAKING them before the leaders even get there shoes on. Likewise on Sunday with whoever fell to the bottom of last page of leader board Saturday evening vs leaders. We hear about "protecting the field" and "you're entitled to the lie you had before your playing partner messed it up" (both balls in same bunker and splash of sand from player 1 covers player 2's ball, etc.), well, why not apply this same logic / line of reasoning to the divot issue? Obviously, raking a bunker is much faster than waiting for a fairway divot to sprout the seeds in the sand mix and grow into real mowable turf that hides the fact a divot was ever in that spot, but why not roll the ball to the rear of that divot like folks do on the range and treat the divot as the GUR it truly is? And not just for elite am's and pro's but EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE?!?!? Especially where the lie of the fairway landing area is sloped to create a funnel effect that gathers drives into a smaller dispersion pattern, so even if you aim your drive to the edge to avoid Divotville, thereby risking trouble, you still might ending up renting sub-surface parking for a few minutes until your next turn to play!