Misunderstood Golf Stats: Total Putts

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.6 • 489 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It's hard to get better if you don't know what's wrong. In today's episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg expand on a recent tweet/post from Lou, in which he implores golfers to stop counting putts. They'll talk about the usefulness of total putts, the ways in can mislead, and a better way to measure if you're getting better on the greens.

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0:00.0	golf stats the golfers are still getting wrong we're going to do a few different episodes on
0:06.0	this we're going to start today with quite a common um golf stat that people maybe are still
0:11.3	getting slightly wrong which we'll talk with lou and gregg charmers in the house um and like I
0:15.8	say we'll do a few episodes on some different stats to try and help you golfers understand
0:20.5	what you should be counting,
0:21.7	what you shouldn't be looking at,
0:22.9	why you shouldn't be looking at certain numbers
0:24.6	and why maybe other numbers might help you
0:27.0	where certain stats like traditional ones that people thought of in the past
0:30.6	might hurt you.
0:33.5	And the first one to kick us off,
0:35.0	which is quite timely because Lou actually did a tweet on this.
0:40.0	A post.
0:41.0	Very recently, a tweet, wasn't it, Lou?
0:44.5	It was a post.
0:45.7	It's X.
0:46.4	We don't call it tweets anymore.
0:47.6	We call them posts.
0:49.2	Oh, do we need to go into the science?
0:51.2	I'm calling it, Tweed.
0:53.2	Don't get Elon angry.
0:57.5	You've changed so much, sir.
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