Is Pro Golf Just Driver/Wedge Now?
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
It's just bomb and gouge, right? In this episode, Mark and Lou look at the numbers to see if reality matches the common perception that Tour players almost never have long approach shots anymore. Are there still any 3-shot holes on the PGA Tour? How often does a Tour pro have a short iron left on a par 5? If there is a discussion to be had about distance, it starts with knowing what is *actually* happening on the course, and not just opinions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Hacking Out Golf podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Myself and Lus Wagner. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm in Portugal, Lou. |
| 0:06.1 | You've interrupted me on one of my trips. |
| 0:08.4 | I played this morning. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm playing 80 hours this afternoon on camera, trying to keep score, |
| 0:14.0 | trying to benchmark my game for senior pro stuff. |
| 0:17.9 | So I'm a bit nervous this afternoon, to be fair. |
| 0:20.4 | Sorry to interrupt your holiday. |
| 0:22.9 | I would call that a vacation. |
| 0:26.9 | We call this work. |
| 0:29.0 | Playing golf isn't really work, is it? |
| 0:31.2 | This is not a holiday. |
| 0:34.9 | And Greg is not here because he is in Morocco. So he's basically across the |
| 0:38.6 | water from me in North Africa playing in an event this week. So he was in, where was he |
| 0:46.2 | playing last week? He was in, was he Portugal last week? Or he was he? He wasn't in America, |
| 0:51.5 | was he? He's a Globetrotter.ter he's everywhere the senior tour has got a little bit |
| 0:56.5 | of globe chopping trotting about it i like it it's good it's good to get the old men out of |
| 1:01.1 | their comfort zone there is it is right today we're going to talk about an interesting subject |
| 1:07.2 | um lou at the moment's got some angst if If you follow Lou on Twitter, he's got, |
| 1:12.5 | there's a bit of teenage angst coming out. I don't know if you were allowed to have |
| 1:15.8 | teenage angst growing up with your probably educated mind. You had to always be like really |
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