How to Play a Narrow Hole
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 488 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Trouble down both sides—what's your best option? In this episode, Mark, Greg, and Lou give advice for approaching a hole when neither side offers a bailout. What are the strategic considerations to take into account when neither miss is great? And what are some drills to get you ready to face the pressure to hit the demanding shot the moment it's needed?
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| 0:00.0 | we've got a question for one of our fantastic audience i've got him down here is |
| 0:04.2 | fantastic let's not it's a stretch hold on fantastic audience i don't know can where can you tell |
| 0:10.2 | people where there where has this been posted there's a link in the description yeah yeah we have |
| 0:14.9 | yeah there's a link down in the description you can post comments written comments and you can leave us a voice memo. |
| 0:23.0 | So check the show notes for the links to leave us either one. |
| 0:27.7 | Voice memos. |
| 0:28.6 | That's going to be great. |
| 0:29.8 | They could get aggressive, couldn't they? |
| 0:31.5 | Yeah, they could. |
| 0:33.1 | So this is Nick McCowski looking at his email without giving his email away. |
| 0:38.7 | Nick McCowski and Nick and I are going to have, we're going to have some words. |
| 0:43.0 | The reason this one just really came up the forefront for me is the opening lie. |
| 0:47.9 | Hello, handsome gents. |
| 0:49.7 | I thought, cool, hello, Nick. |
| 0:51.8 | And then he put Ann Lou. |
| 0:55.8 | Genius. And that just pushed it even higher for me. That's like, yeah, that's got to be. |
| 1:01.4 | There's so much to unpack there because, one, he's throwing Lou under the bus, but in a sense, he's throwing me under the bus because he's lumped me in with you. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:10.8 | Like I said in our track, there's, down handsomeness. And I know, I'm sorry, |
| 1:17.8 | you're just not on my level, Mark. I know. I'm quite happy to we be even contending with you, |
| 1:23.6 | Greg. Before we get into the question, I, Greg, I can't wait because I guarantee you there's |
| 1:28.4 | going to be a voicemail, a voice memo that comes in, and it's going to be Mark trying to |
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