Changing Your Shot Shape
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Once you get beyond "I just don't want to hit a giant slice," you might reach a point at which you want to settle on hitting one particular shape. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about changing your shot shape: factors that might influence your decision and practical steps to engrain a new pattern—and take it to the course.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm changing my shot shape. |
| 0:02.4 | I think I'm going to change. |
| 0:03.5 | I want to talk about what it's like. |
| 0:04.8 | I want your experiences of it as well. |
| 0:07.4 | Greg, can you remember when we played? |
| 0:09.2 | Would you say I had a shape to my shot? |
| 0:11.3 | If there was, what way would it be? |
| 0:13.1 | Well, you can't really remember because you liked it off. |
| 0:15.3 | I thought you liked to look like you like to draw the driver when we were playing. |
| 0:22.2 | And your ions, |
| 0:29.3 | we had mainly short clubs. So, but I, I thought it was pretty straight, to be honest. Yeah, |
| 0:33.3 | irons would have been pretty straight. Yeah, there's a couple of hybrids you had to fade. You had to fade really because you were taking distance off them. Yeah. But yeah, I wouldn't have been able to define it, to be honest. |
| 0:41.4 | I wouldn't have said, oh, he looks more comfortable doing it this. |
| 0:44.8 | That would be my, we only played eight holes. |
| 0:46.8 | I'd like to see some more shots before I commit. |
| 0:50.5 | And I've always been a very neutral golfer, so you wouldn't really see the shape particularly. |
| 0:55.1 | And you were right. |
| 0:56.1 | I mean, my irons are straight. |
| 0:58.6 | If I'm taking some off it, I'll cut it. |
| 1:00.3 | And then my driver, I was straight to slightly turning left was where it's at. |
| 1:05.7 | So if I go at full speed, that's the natural shot that comes out. |
| 1:09.1 | That was when you out drove me with that one if i |
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