Improving Your Anti-Cap
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 489 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Most golfers know how a handicap works, even if they don't maintain an official one. The anti-cap is its opposite: your worst 8 scores in your past 20 rounds. In this episode, Lou leads a discussion with Mark and Greg as to why an anti-cap matters, why tracking it can be an asset when your handicap improvement has stalled, and what a low anti-cap means for your golf game,
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| 0:00.0 | What's your anti-handicap or your anti-cap, Lou? |
| 0:05.7 | Because me and Greg are handicapped. |
| 0:07.9 | Me and Lou are anti-crap, don't we? |
| 0:10.4 | I was a fraudulent sleep. |
| 0:12.5 | Yeah, it was. |
| 0:15.7 | Aren't we? |
| 0:16.3 | We don't have a handicap. |
| 0:17.2 | Yeah, when's the last time that either of you carried an official handicap index? Do you don't remember? 30. Well, I would have been 17 going on 18, I turn pro. Wow. Turn pro, 30 years ago. Did you really? Oh, wow. Yeah. 30 years for me. So I was 21. 21, my goodness. It's no longer necessary. |
| 0:38.4 | It was fun. It's when you're a kid, all the names are on the boards, and your handicap will get adjusted, and they have to put it and change. It was fun seeing it going down to zero and things like that. Like, you could see the whole club's handicaps how we do. Yeah, yeah. Oh, really? Yeah, everyone's name was on a board. Yeah. |
| 0:54.2 | Every club you'd go to, you'd always look at who's the lowest. |
| 0:56.8 | They've got a plus two here or they got a plus one. Yeah, absolutely. It was great. That was fun, actually. I remember that. A whole membership handicap up on the board on a computer printout. On those printouts, you know, where you've got the like all the punched holes |
| 1:12.2 | down inside of the paper and it was black yeah yeah great right all he sounds so old |
| 1:18.6 | yeah back in the day so lose done this is based on one of his newsletters if you don't subscribe |
| 1:24.8 | to lose newsletters already do, they're fantastic. |
| 1:32.7 | He delivers weekly information that is just so valuable. Some of it's quite heavy. Some of it's really light, but what he does is he digests it. So it's really easy. If you stick with it to the end, |
| 1:37.4 | like he really shows you what the point of it is, even though they can be data intense, |
| 1:42.6 | which I think is part of your amazing skill, Lou. |
| 1:45.2 | Talk to us about anti-cap, as you call it. |
| 1:49.0 | One, it's not my concept. |
| 1:50.9 | But Greg, that was a compliment. |
| 1:52.7 | That was actually a compliment from Mark to me. |
| 1:56.0 | Like I, those hit right here in the heart. |
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