SMS - 25 Yards in Bunker, Missed Green, Scratch, 10, and 20

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.7 • 267 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. This one is a doozy. Lou puts a pretty straightforward question to Greg and Mark: how often will golfers of different skill levels miss the green from a greenside bunker? The answer is likely to surprise you. But after a few tips for improving your bunker play, things go a little off the rails. Golfers are competitive. Always. Each of these will be a mini-episode (10-15 minutes long) about an interesting golf stat. We will discuss what you can learn, and most importantly, how you can apply this on the golf course to lower your scores and lower your handicap. Listen on your drive to the golf course or over your Saturday morning coffee! Data is sourced from Arccos Golf. They have over 1 BILLION shots in their database. Check them out at: https://www.arccosgolf.com/ Use code DATALOU15 for 15% off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the quest to try and make me not win too many, we're live again.
0:05.0	Lou likes to try and restrict my power thinking because he knows it's slow.
0:10.3	Deliberate, it's deliberate.
0:11.5	You can hear it, but it's effective.
0:14.2	What's the question live today?
0:16.1	It's defective.
0:18.4	I think I said defective.
0:20.6	Oh, yeah.
0:21.5	Sometimes the little mouse on the wheel needs another piece of cheese to keep going.
0:25.5	It's like, keep turning, buddy, keep turning.
0:28.0	Come on.
0:29.1	So here we go.
0:30.1	Today we're talking green side bunker shots.
0:33.0	So you're less than 25 yards to the hole in a green side bunker.
0:37.1	And I want to know what percent of the time do players miss the green. So they do not hit the green. They might, you know, leave it in the bunker. They might just barely carries out. It stays in the rough. But they do not hit the green. Yep. And this is going to be best of three. And we're looking at this for a scratch, a 10 and a 20.
0:56.1	Okay.
0:57.0	And Mark, you won last time, so you get to go first.
1:00.0	Scratch players.
1:00.4	They will miss the green, 25 yards of a bonger.
1:03.0	They're going to miss the green 3% of the time.
1:09.3	Okay.
1:10.5	Greggy. I had 1.8% of the time. Okay. Greggy.
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