Does Par Help or Hurt Your Course Management?

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Lou talks a lot about expectations on the course. But golf has a built-in system of expectations: when you get to a new hole, the first two bits of information you normally want are yardage and par. That par number sets some expectation of how the hole should be played. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about whether the concept of par helps or hurts your approach to playing a hole. They discuss strategies for focusing on what you can control right now, so that you are in the best position to shoot your best score, and maybe even make a few more pars. 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

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0:30.6	Welcome back to the Hacket Out Golf Podcast.
0:32.5	We've got Lou and Greg in the house.
0:34.5	We're having some technical difficulty.
0:36.6	So if Lou sounds like he's turned into Metal Mickey,
0:40.6	we can only apologize for tonight.
0:42.6	Turn into what?
0:43.6	Metal Mickey.
0:44.2	Do you remember Metal Mickey?
0:48.2	I have no idea what you're talking about.
0:50.2	Battlestar Galactica, wasn't he, Metal Mickey?
0:52.9	I think so, yes.
0:53.7	No.
0:54.8	Never watched that one.
0:57.3	You're a Doctor Who guy?
0:58.5	Who's the nerd?
0:59.2	Who's the nerd now?
1:02.4	You'd never watch Battlestar Galactica?
1:05.0	Never.
1:05.7	No, I'm not a raging nerd.
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