SMS - 10 Index, Fairway vs Rough Equivalents
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. Greg is back! In today's episode, the question is how much rough matters. At 20, 90, and 250 yards in the rough: at what yardages in the fairway will a 10-index shoot equivalent scores? Lou asks, Mark and Greg answer, and the guys talk about the difficulty of layups and the reward for big misses off the tee.
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| 0:00.0 | Hack it out, golf podcast time. |
| 0:01.8 | It's the Saturday stack, Greg, myself, and Lou in the house. |
| 0:04.9 | It's the full team. |
| 0:06.9 | Yes. |
| 0:07.6 | And Lou has a fair way to rough question. |
| 0:11.1 | Yeah, it's good to have Greg you back, by the way. |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah, the bloody audience have been pounding me. |
| 0:16.2 | Like, they're hard to beat, aren't they? |
| 0:18.5 | They are tough to beat. |
| 0:20.1 | So they're better than me. |
| 0:21.4 | That's great. |
| 0:23.3 | Today's question is going to be similar to one we've done in the past. |
| 0:27.8 | I want to know we're going to look at the equivalent distance in the rough compared to a certain yard in the fairway. |
| 0:34.6 | This is going to be for 10 index players. |
| 0:36.8 | And I want to know from 20 yards |
| 0:38.9 | in the rough, what is the equivalent distance, or 20 yards in the fairway, what is the equivalent |
| 0:44.1 | distance in the rough where they'd average the same number of shots? We're going to do this for three |
| 0:48.3 | distances, 20, 90, and 250. So from 20 yards in the rough, what's the, or 20 yards in the fairway, |
| 0:55.1 | what's the equivalent rough distance? |
| 0:56.6 | From 90 yards in the fairway, |
| 0:58.5 | what's the equivalent distance in the rough? |
| 1:00.7 | And from 250, what is the equivalent distance in the rough? |
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