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Hack It Out Golf

Getting to a Single Figure Index

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Golf, Education, Sports

4.6488 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

You're regularly shooting in the 80s: that's no small accomplishment in this game. Your next goal: a handicap index solidly in the single figures. In this episode, Lou and Mark give you the best tips and advice for where to focus your practice and play to get to the next level of golf performance.


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0:00.0

Single digits, Lou, you're there.

0:02.2

You're a single digit golfer, aren't you?

0:05.6

I've said seven right now, something like that.

0:09.0

Are you?

0:10.3

6.9 or 7.1, something like that.

0:14.1

I haven't played that much the last couple years, though.

0:16.3

Good God, you're slipping.

0:17.5

I mean, Lou has been down to scratch, haven't you?

0:20.0

You've been to zero.

0:21.2

Zero point, zero point one. I never got to the plus side. It was always a goal and I never got there.

0:28.0

Zero point one is scratch though, isn't it? That is a zero. I never got to the plus side. Like I always wanted to get to the plus side.

0:34.5

I know I'm two-tenths of a way. Some people are one. We're talking today about the difference between almost like a break 80 golfer to not, so single digits to not. Yeah. And you're winging about being 0.1. You're not winning any fans with that, Mo. I can tell you that for nothing. it was great i mean i but i'm nowhere nowhere near

0:55.8

what that guy was no near right yeah well you got more commitments now you see that is one of the

1:01.9

and that to be fair to kick it off so we're talking in today's episode gregg's away playing in the

1:06.3

australian open which we wish him luck for it's's just me and Lou. Some of the basic differences

1:11.0

between single digit handicap and not. So think of it quite broad. If you want to break

1:16.3

80 for the first time, these ideas would apply. And if you want to get the single digits,

1:20.6

but like they're not exact numbers around those actual indexes. But one of the things that I would say just off the cuff as a golf coach,

1:30.3

one of the defining factors I definitely would see between people who did get to that

1:35.9

single digit goal and not was that they were able to put the time in.

1:40.4

So the golfers who are on that cusp of whatever their number is when you're teaching them, the ones who, so here's an example.

1:49.1

A lot of men I would teach, not enough women golfers would come for lessons, which was a shame, but that's something I would have wanted to work on more if I was full-time coaching.

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