Saturday Morning Stat (Being short-sided)

Hack It Out Golf

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

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Stat". Each of these will be a mini-episode (10-15 minutes long) about an interesting stat. We will chat about what we can learn from it, and most importantly, how it can help your game. Listen on your drive to the course or over your Saturday morning coffee! Data is sourced from Arccos Golf. They have over 670 MILLION shots in their database. Check them out at: https://www.arccosgolf.com/ Use code MARK15 for 15% off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This March streamed Sky Sports Big Weekend on now. F1 roars back to life with Hamilton's first race in red. Newcastle and Liverpool clash in the Carrabout Cup final. Sunday is war to war with incredible football, including the old firm showdown between Celtic and Rangers and a fierce London Derby as Arsenal host Chelsea. Then Golf's elite ring guaranteed drama at the Players' Championship.
0:22.1	The March Big Weekend.
0:23.7	Get Sky Sports available with no contract on now.
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0:30.2	It's Saturday morning stat time and it's Saturday of Augusta, the Masters.
0:35.4	People will be getting short-sided today, moving day.
0:39.6	I don't like that term moving day, but that's what they're doing it.
0:41.4	Pins which direction you're moving.
0:42.8	I go backwards a lot, Mark, Wednesdays.
0:46.6	Lou, you've got some stats from the Argos database about when you're short-sided
0:50.8	how people perform, I think.
0:52.2	What have you got for us?
0:53.6	Yeah, we're going to look at long-sided versus short-sided how people perform, I think. What have you got for us? Yeah, we're going to look at long-sided versus short-sided.
0:56.7	We're going to look at 10 handicaps from 15 yards in the rough.
1:01.3	Okay.
1:01.9	And their average score when they're long-sided, so that means they have plenty of green to work with, is 2.66.
1:14.1	And their average score to get the ball in the hole when they are short-sided, again, 15 yards in the rough, but this time they don't have a lot of green
1:19.8	to work with is 2.82. Okay. Yeah, so pretty, pretty big, big impact there.
1:28.3	And this holds true for every skill level.
1:31.9	And these are averages across a lot of different shots, a lot of different situations.
1:37.6	Some are going to be harder than others.
1:39.6	But it is an impact to being short-sighted.
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