Making Sense of Shallowing
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 488 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Social media swing tips and training aid adverts are full of help to get you to shallow your swing. Should you? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about shallowing. What does it even mean? How do cameras deceive us about what's happening in the swing? Is there a connection between a shallowing downswing and a shallow angle of attack? And can you play good golf without trying to shallow?
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| 0:00.0 | Shallow to shallow or not to shallow, Lou, that is the question, isn't it? |
| 0:08.0 | Wow. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a question you ask yourself. |
| 0:10.9 | It's like, can you shallow a question? |
| 0:14.1 | That's the question. |
| 0:16.3 | I can shallow at 50% speed, 60, yeah, 100% speed, no. |
| 0:23.0 | We're chopping wood, baby. |
| 0:24.9 | It's quite a hot topic at the moment, shallowing. |
| 0:27.7 | And what we're talking about there is in the down swing. |
| 0:30.0 | So when you're kind of like halfway in the down swing and if you pause the camera from |
| 0:33.8 | down the line, you know, where does that club kind of angle look? |
| 0:38.4 | Where do your hands look in relationship to your body? |
| 0:41.4 | So if the club is what, people would relate this for coming from the inside or the outside as |
| 0:46.3 | well, which actually isn't true, but there's elements of truth to that. |
| 0:51.7 | And we have a player at the moment. |
| 0:53.3 | I can't remember the name. |
| 0:54.1 | Do you know the name, great? Yeah, it's Chris Goderap as the one you're talking about. Good young play. It's a hot new thing, yeah, hot new young player. One in Hawaii. He's one, I think he's won twice this year already. He's got big, strong legs, isn't he? He pounds it. He pounds it. |
| 1:12.9 | I look at those legs and think, |
| 1:14.9 | how do legs end up like that? Yeah, but to be fair, |
| 1:16.7 | every body part looks large to you. |
| 1:19.1 | Like every single body part. |
| 1:21.1 | Like anything that has skin |
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