Hitting More Greens in Regulation, Part Two

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Golf, Education, Sports

4.6 • 488 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Picking up with more on hitting greens. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg dig deeper into the stats of GIR, in a way that emphasizes just how much it matters to hit greens, and how vast the gap is between great and less-great golfers in their approach play skill. Take this as motivation to work on your skill with the full swing. Episode 1 of this series Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hitting-more-greens-in-regulation-part-one/id1543363295?i=1000749377483 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2FWU3d717L6wt2u5C6gyWv 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

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to part two of our two-part series about trying to hit more greens and lower your
0:08.2	schools. If you're catching this as your first part, look up for part one, where we actually
0:13.4	delve into some real ideas of how to improve this skill of hitting more greens and
0:19.3	lower your scores. Today's episode is about bringing
0:22.1	the receipts. It's getting Lou to deliver some numbers about why this actually is important.
0:29.0	So like I say, two-part series, if you're catching us as this is your first part, go back and
0:32.5	listen to part one. It doesn't matter what order you listen to. But the answers to lots of the numbers that we're going to talk about today are in part one.
0:40.5	Part two is bringing the receipts.
0:43.1	We should probably warn everybody.
0:44.9	This is going to be 35 to 45 minutes of me just monotoning numbers.
0:50.6	Yeah, 47, 18.
0:56.0	Yeah, but minding out numbers. 47, 18. And mind you, lose Nirvana.
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:02.0	He's family and I love it.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:04.9	So just to overview part one, part one is going to explain exactly what greens and regulation
1:09.4	means and it's a little bit more complex and nuance to what probably lots of people means. It also is delivering practice
1:15.7	games ideas and strategies to use on the golf course to improve these numbers we're going to
1:21.0	talk about today. So let's get into the numbers, Lou. Should we start with what often is maybe
1:26.4	like a magic number? So the 50-50 chance
1:30.0	of hitting the green for different indexes possibly. Just explain what that means. We'll just break
1:34.6	down what that's that you're going to kick us off with actually means. Yeah, it's just an interesting
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.