Improving Your Green Reading
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Lou and Mark begin with some competitive banter about a hole they recently played together—especially their quite differing approaches to reading putts. Both speak of what they look for on the greens, and then they turn the stage over to Greg: statistically, one of the best putters ever to play the game. You need to putt on almost every hole you play. Reading greens is a skill that you can sharpen, and it will lower your scores if you work on it.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk lining putts up. Me and Lou got on a golf course together not long ago. We filmed, but we managed to play one hole together, which he'll tell you that we have, but we did. In physical strokes, we did, but maybe not in quality of golf. Wasn't it pretty? It was pretty. I flagged that thing, baby. The pot was right at it. He just had the room club and he is great. He's a lovely play. And it was my first swing of the day. I'd been freezing. It was 55 degrees out. It was windy. It was raining. I was just sitting in a cart cold. He spent the whole afternoon moaning about how cold it was. |
| 0:38.1 | He must have said it. He was freezing out there. |
| 0:39.2 | And I think at one point he said, it's cold, isn't it? And I think I said, well, at least you haven't mentioned it yet. And I was, I was not going on about it. I was yelling, going to the hole. I was yelling. If I was warm, it would have been in the hot. I was thinking, get over that bunker, get over that bunker. |
| 0:54.4 | Pym was at the back, by the way, get over that bunker, get over that bunker. |
| 0:54.5 | Pym was at the back, by the way, which is where my ball ended up, which is then led to this conversation. |
| 0:59.0 | So I know, so I've always been a putter who doesn't use any data. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm just looking and feeling. |
| 1:05.0 | I like just feeling putting. |
| 1:08.7 | I've always been quite good at putting. |
| 1:10.3 | It's been one of my better skills as a golfer, |
| 1:12.6 | so I'd no reason to change something that I feel like I do better than the people I |
| 1:17.3 | would compete against at. |
| 1:20.1 | Lou is the opposite. |
| 1:21.3 | He is very data-driven. |
| 1:23.4 | There is an element of feel as well, because his pettin is good. |
| 1:25.8 | You can tell he's got feel, but he's relying on the numbers to make decisions on aim. So I thought, right, I've got this pup for a birdie. He'd rolled his up. Luckily enough made his pie. I should have made a birdie, but well, that's a different conversation. I lagged it up wrong handed. It lagged it up righty. |
| 1:45.8 | And it was just a kicking. |
| 1:48.0 | It was like a no-look back-handed kicking. It was a very good part. So I had a 12-15 foot part. It was the best putt you've ever seen. It was only a wedge this old. We at 9. I ate a wedge. Don't like to talk about it. and I ate mine to 1512 foot foot because I hit a proper shot. |
| 2:01.1 | Just past pin. |
| 2:02.4 | It pitched maybe five foot from the pin and then just spun a bit away. |
| 2:05.9 | So it's a bit unlucky not to be in the phone. |
| 2:07.3 | You guys talking about your goal for horses. |
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