SMS - 10 Index, Scoring Average Hitting Fairways and Greens
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 17 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. Today's episode will make you think. Take a 10-index golfer: what will he score in rounds where he hits 13 fairways? What about in rounds in which he hits 9 greens in regulation? Lou puts this question to Lou and Greg, and after settling the winner, the discussion turns to how this knowledge can help you shoot your best scores.
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| 0:00.0 | Saturdays that time. What have you got for us, Lou? We're talking 10 indexes and scoring |
| 0:04.6 | averages in greens and fairways, I think, are we? Is that way? That is, yeah, that's the question |
| 0:09.1 | today. So 10 index players in Arcos. And I want to know what their scoring average is when they |
| 0:17.2 | hit nine greens. And then the second question is, I want to know what their scoring average is when they hit |
| 0:24.1 | 13 fairways. |
| 0:25.4 | So they've nearly run the table. |
| 0:27.0 | Like they've nearly hit pretty much every fairway in most golf courses. |
| 0:30.4 | So what's the scoring average when they hit nine greens? |
| 0:32.8 | What's the scoring average when they hit 13 fairways? |
| 0:36.4 | And please give this to one decimal point of precision |
| 0:39.7 | if you can. And Mark, you get to start first. Let's go, what's scoring average when they hit |
| 0:45.0 | nine greens? So can I give you an answer of over par? Is that what you want? So if the score |
| 0:52.8 | average is 13 over par. No, I want an actual number. No, I don't want 13 over par. I want, you know, you know, 89.3. Like, I want to, I want that number. Keeping in mind, most golf courses are par 72, par 71. Yeah, that's why I did it. Like, yeah, yeah. I seem to make more sense. I don't have it to par. I have it this way. |
| 1:11.4 | And I only looked at, for this study, I'm pretty sure I only looked at golf courses that were par 71s or par 72s. |
| 1:18.4 | Keeping in mind that golf courses are different, you know, there's par 72s that are really tough, par 72s that are really easy. |
| 1:25.9 | It's a ton of rounds across a ton of different golf courses. |
| 1:30.1 | So if they hit nine greens, their score and average will come down in my head. |
| 1:38.5 | So I reckon their score and average if they hit nine greens is 81.5. |
| 1:48.0 | 81.5, okay. And Greg, what is their scoring average? |
| 1:53.5 | Sorry, I just want to put that into perspective because this is why I don't like this question. |
| 1:57.7 | I'm actually saying their score in average is, what's that 11.1 over whatever |
| 2:03.7 | par they're playing? No, I mean, if they're playing a par 71, they're 10 and a half over. And again, |
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