SMS - 5 Index on a Short Par 4
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. This week, Greg's off training to regain Australia's Open championship. So Lou pits Mark against his newsletter audience. What will a 5 index golfer average on a short, 275-yard par 4? Why has Mark always loved holes like this? And what's the secret to an Australian accent?
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| 0:00.0 | Saturdays that time. It's me and Lou. Greg is away playing golf. |
| 0:04.3 | Australian. |
| 0:05.3 | Part timer. |
| 0:07.9 | And it's me kind of against Lou's newsletter audience. |
| 0:12.1 | If you haven't joined Lou's newsletter, it's worth joining. |
| 0:15.3 | And you should also join my newsletter because I've got some really excitement news coming very soon. |
| 0:19.7 | So maybe in the show notes, we can put both of our newsletters links down there for anyone who can click them. So Lou's going to ask me a question. He's not going to give me the options that he gave his audience, I think. So I'm going to have to go blind. Yeah, you're going to have to guess. The audience I'm competing against had a one in four chance of getting this right. |
| 0:38.3 | I don't. |
| 0:39.4 | Hit me with a question, though. |
| 0:41.0 | All right. |
| 0:41.3 | So the first one we're going to look at is what will the typical five index player average on 275 yard par four? |
| 0:51.4 | What are they going to average? |
| 0:52.4 | 275 yard par four. Very, very short par four, are they going to average 275 yard par four very very short par four five index players |
| 0:57.7 | what is the typical five index going to average on the typical 275 yard hole i think is what easy |
| 1:05.8 | yeah easy they're knocking driver on they're big and puss. Eagle time. Yeah. It's a par three, isn't it? |
| 1:11.9 | Yeah. Three is the worst case scenario. Yeah. So I reckon they're averaging five. Five index. Yeah, that's tough. 4.2 is what they're averaging. And I'm going to do Greg's answer for him. I always like to do this when he's not here because he I know I he gives me the right to answer for him. |
| 1:31.2 | We've had a decision. and I'm going to do Greg's answer for him. I always like to do this when he's not here because I know he gives me the right to answer for him. |
| 1:31.2 | We've had a discussion. |
| 1:32.0 | He says, yeah, Ma, I trust you. |
| 1:33.6 | You won't, you answer for me. |
| 1:35.6 | I would like that. |
| 1:36.3 | That's what he told me. |
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