Match Play Strategy
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 488 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
What's different in your approach to match play? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg take up a listener question about match play. In addition to any general changes in strategy, they discuss how to handle a match in which you're giving a lot of strokes to your opponent, as well as some of the pros and cons of gamesmanship in a match format.
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| 0:00.0 | We're talking match play today. This is a really good question from Cavett. I hope I'm saying that right, Cavett. Hi guys, loving the podcast. As the golf season starts, we're starting to play a lot of match playing matches. Any tips you can give on strategy and mindset, particularly when you're having to give shots. So at least six, he's put to your opponent. |
| 0:23.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:24.1 | So it's a general match play question, which I like. |
| 0:28.4 | I do like a bit of match playing golf personally. |
| 0:30.8 | Greg, when was the last time you played match play? |
| 0:33.5 | Apart from, like, when we played together, like, you just don't play it do you well that was a dark day |
| 0:38.8 | i've tried to get that out of my memory um that was that was a tough one um but yeah match play |
| 0:46.8 | is is a lot of fun i really miss it long time since i've played it i think it'd be years i think i |
| 0:53.0 | played in the wgc match play once or twice. |
| 0:57.8 | Didn't do very well. But yeah, it's been a, it's been a minute since I've been able to get out and have a |
| 1:03.5 | game of match play. It's a fun game. I do enjoy the idea and concept of you can take on a little |
| 1:09.5 | more risk sometimes because, you know, |
| 1:11.4 | the big number doesn't hurt you as much. It's just one loss, one hole. So yeah, it's a fun game. |
| 1:16.4 | Good question. So with your amateur career, that would have been built more around matchplay, |
| 1:22.8 | I presume, was it? Like, the Australian amateur, yeah, the Aussie amateur, I won that. That was match play. It was qualifying and then match play, 64, top 64 qualifying one. So, yeah, I won that one. There was some events that they're kind of moving away from a little bit at home. I know that. Like our Ozzy Ameter doesn't, I don't think it has a match play section anymore. It's all stroke play. |
| 1:44.7 | Oh, really? |
| 1:45.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.1 | It's that we have a lot of interclub competitions in Australia, which we call Pennett |
| 1:51.6 | Golf, we call that on Sundays where the club puts a team of seven together and they go |
| 1:56.8 | and play each other. |
| 1:57.5 | That gets pretty serious there in a season. |
| 2:00.2 | But yeah, there's a lot more club competition that gives these options. |
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