Indoor Practice vs Outdoor Play in Winter

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

For many of our listeners, we're in the hard part of winter. You're still interested in golf improvement. When the course is cold and wet, will you get more improvement from indoor practice or from playing outdoors in less-than-ideal conditions? In today's episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg take their shots at answering this listener question. They off suggestions for maximizing both routes, including indoor practice tips and prep for play in cold weather. 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

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0:33.7	Question for the team here from Andy Pym.
0:35.6	Mud Island question.
0:39.7	So Lou has his version of Mud Island because he's got snow there.
0:44.8	I guess you're cold, Lou, are you? Greg, are you woolly hat? Kind of, yeah, you are Lou? Greg, are you woolly hat stuff or you warm? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's cold in Dallas right now. Yeah, yeah.
0:49.4	So Mud Island question, but you could relate this to non-Mud Island people as well.
1:00.1	Is it better for your overall game progression to stay away from the course over the winter?
1:05.6	Or at least when the course you play is pretty boggy and wet, which we definitely get everywhere here at the minute, it's pretty hard to, what's he saying here, or or pretty wet everywhere or better to try and stick
1:13.5	to the range practice short game putting gym work or etc so can you do other things when the
1:20.0	course is wet and boggy which it definitely is here in the UK I think it's a really interesting
1:25.3	question um I'm going to kick this one off for me personally as someone who's trying to gain speed at the UK. I think it's a really interesting question.
1:31.1	I'm going to kick this one off for me personally, as someone who's trying to gain speed at the moment, I am not hitting many balls.
1:34.6	I hit 10 balls fast today, and I haven't done that for ages.
1:39.1	I've got a workout to do.
1:40.8	I just haven't got enough energy to hit balls.
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