Dialing in Your Distance Control
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Amateur golfers obsess over swing path and face angle, and with good reason. But golf is a game of distance and direction, and much of the test of distance is distance control: having a very clear idea, within a few yards, of how far your typical shot will go. In this episode, Greg and Mark (Lou is out with a bout of flu) talk through a whole series of pointers that will help you play better by hitting shots as far as they need to go.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Hackett Out Golf Podcast. We have one sick member of the group who's not with us. |
| 0:05.8 | Lou Stagner is taken to bed. Nothing serious. He's just got a bit of the old, well, Greg mentioned man flu. I wouldn't like to say that, Greg. |
| 0:19.3 | Can we, I mean, I'm reticent to to wind him up when he can't hear us, but I'm sure he'll listen. |
| 0:26.2 | No, I'm sure he's, I hope he's well. |
| 0:28.3 | I hope he gets well. |
| 0:29.0 | Yes. |
| 0:29.6 | So he's taken to bed. |
| 0:30.9 | He is six. |
| 0:31.4 | It's just me and Greg today. |
| 0:32.5 | But we are going to talk about something that I find quite interesting, and hopefully you will too. |
| 0:38.5 | I want to talk about how dialed in is someone like Greg for distances. So when he plays, knowing his distances, |
| 0:43.7 | what club to use and how he uses that skill, how he obtains it. And then I want to, the listener |
| 0:49.7 | to kind of equate that a little bit to themselves. And I'm going to kick this episode off with |
| 0:53.5 | one question which the listener can ask themselves and maybe they could hit our socials up to tell us |
| 0:59.8 | their responses. But how many of the listeners have had a custom fit for their club? So iron or |
| 1:06.1 | woods or pudder or wedge or something. I reckon we'd be over 50% of our listeners at some point have had a custom fit. |
| 1:12.6 | Might even be higher than that. |
| 1:14.3 | Just completely guessing. |
| 1:15.9 | And then how many of our listeners, same question or same group of people, have had a gap testing. |
| 1:22.1 | And I reckon that's going to be down near to 10, 20% of the top of my head without any data to look at, |
| 1:28.5 | which I think's quite interesting because I think gap testing for the average amateur has a huge |
| 1:34.9 | chance of lowering handicaps where driver fitting, unless you're using something absolutely wild, |
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