How Many Mistakes Is Too Many?
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Mistake-free golf is an always illusive grail. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about mistakes in golf. First, they talk about kinds of mistakes, from mistakes in planning to execution. Then they talk about the inevitability of mistakes—and how handling mistakes well, rather than hoping to eliminate them altogether, might be the recipe for your best golf performance.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, as someone who doesn't really do this, I'm asking for a friend today. |
| 0:05.0 | I've got a question. |
| 0:07.0 | A friend has asked me, you know I'm lying when I use the word friend from the outset. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.0 | That's a tip off. |
| 0:16.0 | This is a lie. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm your only friend and this does not ring a bell. |
| 0:21.7 | I don't remember texting you. |
| 0:24.1 | Absolutely. |
| 0:25.9 | How many mistakes is too many mistakes? |
| 0:29.6 | Because obviously you can say any mistakes on the golf course is too many because I do |
| 0:34.8 | think some golfers think they shouldn't make any mistakes, but that's probably, I think if you understand how many mistakes to a certain extent is too many mistakes, which we'll talk about a bit today, then maybe it'll help you just chill out a bit when you do make them, because guess what, we're going to make them. It's part of nearly every round of golf you play. And let's define a mistake. A mistake |
| 0:55.5 | could be what, Lou, out of bounds, leaving a shot in a bunker, maybe free putting from an |
| 1:00.1 | inappropriately short distance, topping a T shot. That's kind of what we're saying is mistakes, |
| 1:05.5 | maybe? What do you think? I don't think of them. I think it's sometimes it's dangerous to think |
| 1:10.7 | of mistakes that way. |
| 1:12.6 | Because we, we all have a range of outcomes. And, you know, we're all going to hit the golf ball in a lot of different places, you know, with every, with every club in the bag. |
| 1:24.6 | And the higher your handicap, the bigger that area gets. Now, Greg certainly hits the ball a whole lot straighter and more accurate than a typical weekend warrior like myself. |
| 1:33.8 | But Greg still, you know, hits shots not where he's looking. |
| 1:38.4 | And are those necessarily a mistake? |
| 1:41.4 | Depends on how you want to look at it. |
| 1:43.4 | Like even when Greg's playing his absolute |
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