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Hack It Out Golf

Changing Your Shot Shape

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.7267 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 20 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. 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

Transcript

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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. I want your experiences of it as well. Greg, can you remember when we played? Would you say I had a shape to my shot? If there was, what way would it be? Well, you can't really remember because you liked it off. I thought you liked to look like you like to draw the driver when we were playing. Yeah. And your ions,

0:22.8

we had mainly short clubs. So, but I, I thought it was pretty straight, to be honest.

0:29.1

Yeah, irons would have been pretty straight. Yeah, there's a couple of hybrids you had to fade. You

0:32.9

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.

0:46.7

I'd like to see some more shots before I commit.

0:50.6

And I've always been a very neutral golfer, so you wouldn't really see the shape particularly.

0:55.3

And you were right.

0:56.1

I mean, my eye is straight.

0:58.5

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

1:11.1

i remember correctly mark i'll mention it first so that you can just just get all happy maybe

1:16.7

three out drive some of us thank you mark yes three i forgot yes yes what a joy stay my natural shot

1:25.4

if i'm trying to hit the ball harder my natural shot with a driver would be to slightly draw because I'll stand up a bit. So as I come in hit the ball, I'm standing up a bit, which will drop the club kind of behind me a bit more. And then what you probably noticed as well, Greg, and we talked about it, my bad drive was like a high block, just stayed out there a bit wild.

1:44.6

Like I said, if I played a lot, I wouldn't hit that shot very often.

1:49.0

So that's what's made, that shot is what's making me want to change the way I shape the ball.

1:55.5

So I'm thinking of, I've been hitting a few balls recently and going more for a bit of a lower fade with everything.

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