Caffeine and Golf
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Is better scoring found in a cup of coffee? In this episode, Mark and Lou talk about a study Lou recently read about the effects of caffeine on golf performance. Mark and Lou talk about the findings of the study, their own coffee preferences, the meaning of cream, their new plan for on-course concessions—and how you might save a stroke or two your next round with a cup of coffee.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Hackett Out Golf podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | As we are recording, it's Lou, and it's me and Lou Stagner here this week. |
| 0:06.1 | So I'm up cross with Lou Stagner. And Greg Chalmers is off competing. So good luck, Greg. I'm looking forward to see how you play. I'm drinking a coffee, Lou, as we speak. Homemade one. I have one. I have one. You got caramel in your coffee or not? I do not. |
| 0:18.9 | I do not. |
| 0:19.0 | I do not. |
| 0:20.0 | Is that what, is that a thing over there? |
| 0:22.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.8 | It is, yeah. caramel in your coffee or not? I have marmal latte. Is that what, is that a thing over there? |
| 0:22.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.2 | Yours is just water and coffee, in it? |
| 0:27.4 | You like guys, like, in America, you like, like, just that coffee. |
| 0:32.0 | No, I think a lot of people drink flavored, flavored coffees like you drink. |
| 0:36.5 | Because I couldn't drink what you're drinking. |
| 0:39.0 | If I drink a coffee without caramel in it, I literally am like, |
| 0:42.8 | and then literally for the next two hours, I'm like going, |
| 0:47.0 | oh, that taste, because it's too bitter. |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah, I put a little bit of a little bit of cream in my coffee. Cream is milk. Yeah, yeah. Is that what you call cream? Is it milk or is it cream? I use an oat milk. Yeah, oat milk. Yeah, that's fine. So it's a milk, yeah, yeah. That's milk. The listeners are probably wondering why we're spending so much time talking about coffee. They're going to realize soon. This does relate to golf because Lou's got an interesting study, which he's going to talk to us. I just want to. I like every week I can learn about your culture a bit more. I feel more worldly, you see. Why do you call it cream if it's milk? I have no idea. I didn't make the rules up. I have no idea. I don't choose what to say. |
| 1:31.3 | I just go along with whatever else is saying. Yeah, just go along with the crowd. |
| 1:35.9 | Because it's milk. We would say, milk, we don't, cream is like cream. We would put cream in, |
| 1:41.4 | because you can't put cream in a coffee. Yeah, yeah, and I think some people do. |
| 1:44.9 | I think some people do actually use cream. |
| 1:47.8 | Some people will say milk, some will say cream. |
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