Responsible Golf Tournament Setup

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Golf's major championships are often held at some of the sport's most iconic courses, and it has Mark, Greg, and Lou discussing whether the extravagant setups and course conditions for these tournaments are having a bad effect on golf more generally. Whether its green and fairway sizes or rough depth, there are elements that have cost in money, environment, and pace of play. Should these tournaments think about the example they set for other courses? 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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0:34.6	We just had a funny conversation offline.
0:38.0	We're talking today.
0:38.7	I've got a question.
0:39.4	I'm going to pose a question to the other two,
0:41.5	one that just rattles around in my head.
0:43.4	There is no answer.
0:44.8	I am no authority here.
0:46.4	It's just a question I would like some help quantifying in my head.
0:51.0	So the question is,
0:52.5	US Open is on at the time of recording this, and I'm not singling out
0:55.6	the US Open. I think you could argue lots of tournaments would have this question asked,
1:01.9	and they're probably already asking it to themselves as well and do more than I know for the game,
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