Chip Closer With a Hybrid
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 489 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Would you rather shoot better scores or play with flair and style? I think most of us know, if we're trying to lower the handicap, we should want to get the ball in the hole in the fewest shots, regardless if our style impresses our playing partners. In this episode, Lou brings a recent golf study to Mark and Lou: most golfers get their chip shots much closer to the hole when they hit those shots with a hybrid rather than a wedge. They talk through the study, the pros and cons, and ask you to consider whether you're making golf harder for yourself than it needs to be.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's get our listeners chipping the ball closer to the hole. |
| 0:03.8 | That would be a goal, wouldn't it? Wouldn't that be a good goal, guys? Let's get them chipping it closer. Absolutely. Yeah. They chip it too far away. Stop chipping it so far away. Just chip it closer. What's wrong with people? Yeah. First, I would start with let's hit more greens. Like, we want to hit more greens. but if we're going to miss greens, then we want to get that chipping better. |
| 0:22.9 | You can't chip closer if you do that though, can you? |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah. First I would start with let's hit more greens. Like we want to hit more greens, but if we're going to miss greens, then we want to get that |
| 0:22.5 | chipping closer if you do that, though, can you? Yeah, yeah. So that times I go out and I intentionally miss greens. Yeah, that's not what you do. Just so I can chip it close. I intentionally hit that ball over that fence, guys. Don't worry about it. Have you guys ever played the game where you try to have as few |
| 0:40.4 | putts as possible? Every week. Which means you but which means like it's a contest to have as few |
| 0:47.8 | the winner of this contest is a person with the fewest butts and so you have to miss greens. |
| 0:53.1 | So you go out there and you |
| 0:54.2 | intentionally are missing greens and then you're trying to you know get it up and down and |
| 0:58.3 | you're trying to miss greens in the spot where it's going to be the easiest up and down and |
| 1:01.7 | get it as close as possible it's actually a pretty fun game yeah see I didn't like that game |
| 1:06.5 | because people just take forever there's like you know because they people are stupid They like get it there 15 yards off the green. So they like put it or like knobble it closer to the green to then chip on. It's like I can't just come on. Chip the ball. Come on now. Silliness. Yeah. I don't like that silliness should be banned along with socks that aren't the right length. I hate that. I want them a certain length, you know? I'm not here to look at your knees. I want them covered up. It makes sense. That's how golf is meant to be played. I've got some great photos of me when I was a kid when you had to wear the long socks. It's just not a good look. In Australia. |
| 2:05.2 | Yeah, white socks up to your knees pretty much with the black shoes. It was just gold. With the big flaps on the front of the shoes. It's a beautiful look. Oh, yeah. The floppy shoes. Oh, wow. Wait, that was mandatory? Yeah. Oh, yeah. You can't put it. Dude, it's only been in recent times that Australia has embraced the idea of like shorter socks. |
| 2:07.9 | It's like moving so slowly, so slowly. |
| 2:10.8 | What's the reason behind the long socks? |
| 2:12.1 | Like, I don't understand that. |
| 2:15.3 | Why would, why would somebody want you to wear a long sock? You had to dress like you're a high school teacher from 1950. |
| 2:18.2 | I don't know. |
| 2:18.7 | It's just weird. |
| 2:21.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:21.6 | Anyway, people are going to start chipping better. |
| 2:24.6 | Lou's got some, where did you get this information from Lou? |
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