Avoiding Big Numbers on the Course

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Mike Tyson's famous aphorism is true for golf as well: everyone has a plan until he's punched in the face. And a round of golf will punch you in the face. When you find trouble during your round, how do you avoid those round-destroying blow-up scores? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg bring three tips for minimizing the damage. They talk about strategy, the skill of hitting recovery shots, keeping your eyes open for smart routes to the hole, and getting the driver under control. You know it: posting better scores is more a matter of reducing bag numbers than it is bagging more birdies. This episode will help you do exactly that. Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	Let's talk about three ways to avoid big numbers on the golf course.
0:33.6	We understand, and hopefully you do now, that big numbers are what calls the um high
0:38.7	handicapers to struggle it's not the amount of birdies they're having it's that they have disasters
0:43.1	they have implosions um we're going to share with you three ways to try and take those big numbers
0:48.5	off they're a little bit curvebally they might not be what you think about some of them might
0:53.0	you might find a little bit boring but they will help you reduce a few of the big numbers. We've all come up with our own
0:59.3	idea. Greg's first one I think was try to learn hit practice, like practice recovery shots you
1:04.0	mentioned, Greg, I think was our number one point. Yeah, look, it's firstly before we get into
1:09.1	this too, I can tell you what's the largest number you've
1:11.9	made on a whole i'm at 13 on a par three i was at 11 on a par five yeah 13 on a part three
1:18.3	coasting in a tournament doing well picked the wrong line twice i was top 10 on a friday afternoon
1:24.6	and ended up missing their cut by four the good news is I went back the next year and made seven.
1:30.2	It's a big improvement.
1:31.8	Yeah, massive improvement.
1:33.2	I only made a quad the next year.
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