SMS - Length of Holes for 10 Index to Average Par
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode belongs in the Expectations Hall of Fame. How long would a par 3, a par 4, and a par 5 need to be for a 10-index player to average par on each? Lou puts this question to Mark and Greg. The answer gives these golfers a good reference point for expected scoring, and a mental game that is set up to score best on these "short" holes.
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| 0:00.0 | Saturday stat time. |
| 0:01.9 | I can't remember who won last. |
| 0:03.5 | Can we establish that? Oh, it's great. Yeah, I have one like 19 in a row. Did I not win one in between? I don't know. I'm just strolling out my own stats now. I leave track nowadays. It's not so important. It's not so important in my mind. I used to be everything I wanted every week because I won so many. I just lowered it down a bit. Your life was complete for about a month. |
| 0:23.1 | He's on the perpetual truck, Mark. Yeah, is he? Perpetual. He is. What have we got, Lou? We're doing it live. No time of sleep. Yeah, today. Today we're talking about 10 index players. And we're talking about par threes, par fours, and par fives. |
| 0:40.1 | There's going to be three questions. |
| 0:42.0 | And the question is how long, and this concept applies to par threes, par fours, and par fives. |
| 0:50.4 | But we'll start with the par three is. |
| 0:52.2 | How long would a par three need to be for a 10 index to average 3.00? |
| 0:59.8 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:00.3 | And then same question for a par four. |
| 1:02.0 | How long, how many yards long would a par four need to be for them to average four? |
| 1:06.6 | And how long would a par five need to be for them to average five? |
| 1:11.4 | To average, oh, wow. |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah, how many yards long is that we'll start with the par three is, |
| 1:19.4 | how many yards long would a par three need to be for a 10 index to have a scoring average of 3.00? |
| 1:26.2 | I wish you had done 20 on this. |
| 1:28.0 | It would be so great. |
| 1:29.4 | Oh, this is tough, isn't it? |
| 1:31.1 | Four yards. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah, see, this would be a good one. |
| 1:35.4 | I like this one. |
| 1:36.7 | Again, we're doing now this for 10 index players, 10 index players. |
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