SMS - 35 Yards in Rough, Median Proximity, Scratch, 10, and 20
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. You've missed the green in the rough, but you're still hoping to get up and down and save a score. How far are you likely to end up from the hole when you're 35 yards away and in the rough? In this episode, Lou quizzes Mark and Greg on median distance by handicap. Afterwards, they reiterate why you need to be aware of what a good shot really is—and how expectation management can increase your performance on the course.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | We're 35 yards out and we're in the rough apparently and it's Saturday stat time and Lou is going to wow us with his. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm going to wow you with an incredible question. |
| 0:12.1 | His ability to read a spreadsheet as me and Lou and me and Greg do all the work. Is that what we're saying? |
| 0:18.5 | Yeah. That's it. I look at it very differently than that, but that's fine. |
| 0:23.3 | So we're 35 yards in the rough today, and we want to know the median proximity for a scratch, |
| 0:31.3 | a 10, and a 20. And just think of this, this is across a huge sample of shots. |
| 0:38.8 | So this kind of ends up being from typical rough. |
| 0:43.8 | This sample is going to include really short rough. |
| 0:46.5 | It's going to include really long, challenging rough and everything in between. |
| 0:50.3 | So this kind of, just think of it as averaging out to typical rough. |
| 0:55.9 | So medium proximity, 35 yards for a scratch of 10 and a 20. |
| 1:00.5 | I believe Mark is a couple, few on the trot right now, three in the trot? |
| 1:06.1 | Multiple time winner. |
| 1:07.3 | He can't stop winning. |
| 1:08.1 | He can't stop winning. |
| 1:10.0 | So Mark, you get to go first for scratch golfers. So 35 yards from the raft, scratch golfer, I'm kicking off with 14 feet. Okay. Ken, this is best out of three, just for clarity. Best out of three. Thank you, Lou. Thank you, thank you. I went a little higher than that. I went 16 feet. |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah, |
| 1:28.8 | it says |
| 1:29.1 | two feet's |
| 1:30.0 | not much. |
| 1:30.6 | That's a |
| 1:30.9 | good guess |
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