SMS - 10 Index, Birdies Per Round Shooting 70s vs 90s
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Longtime listeners of the pod will know that for typical golfers, the key to lower scores isn't making more birdies. Today's episode drives that point home. How many birdies will a 10-index golfer make when he shoots in the 90s versus his rounds when he shoots in the 70s? Mark and Greg offer their guesses, and there is no small surprise when Lou reveals the correct answer....
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| 0:00.0 | Saturday status, Lou, I'm looking for, I'm feeling confident this week. |
| 0:04.7 | I really am. |
| 0:05.8 | Why are you feeling confident? |
| 0:07.1 | There's no point turning up if I don't, is there? |
| 0:09.9 | I'm not using reality anymore for these episodes. |
| 0:12.9 | I've gone to, I'm feeling confident. |
| 0:15.5 | And that's all I'm pulling on. |
| 0:17.4 | You're in my fields. |
| 0:18.7 | All right. |
| 0:20.3 | This is a tough one. This is a tough one this is a tough one it's a little bit |
| 0:23.6 | different and i and i and i i don't anticipate yeah i i'm curious to see how you guys do here so |
| 0:30.2 | today we're talking about 10 index players and we're talking about how many birdies they average per |
| 0:36.9 | round but we're looking at how many birdies they average per round. |
| 0:40.8 | But we're looking at it in a different way. |
| 0:44.5 | So we're looking at it two ways. |
| 0:51.0 | How many average birdies does a 10 index have when they shoot 79 or better? |
| 0:59.9 | And then the second question is how many birdies does a 10 index average per round when they shoot 89 or worse? |
| 1:02.4 | So 79 or better. |
| 1:04.2 | How many birdies do they average? |
| 1:05.4 | 89 or worse? |
| 1:06.9 | How many birdies do they average? |
| 1:07.5 | I'm ready. |
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