SMS - Percent Shots 90% of Target Distance, 175 Yards, Scratch, 10, and 20

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. It's a real problem: handicap golfers hit their approach shots short—a lot. But how often? In this episode, Lou asks Mark and Greg how often, from 175 yards, golfers of different abilities will manage to hit their shots at least 90% of the target distance. After sorting through their (very different) answers, Mark and Greg give their best advice for getting the ball to the target more regularly. 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 MARK15 for 15% off! To get the best discount off your NordVPN plan - go to ⁠⁠nordvpn.com/hackitout⁠⁠. Our link will also give you 4 extra months on the 2-year plan. There's no risk with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	slash UK slash AI for people. Saturdays that time and apparently we're doing it live. Is that how
0:34.5	he said it? We are doing it live. I'm doing an impression. We are doing it
0:41.9	live. When you watch a video, he did not say it like that. Is that the accent and how it works?
0:47.9	No. Not even close. Not even close. Yes, we're doing it live. That's a good one. I think this one is really relevant to both of you. I would say that both of you are subpar ball strikers compared to someone like myself. And it's important to make good, clean, crisp contact. So that's what today's Saturday stat is about. This is an interesting one
1:12.8	from the, this is a deep dive into the Arcos database. We're going deep. Yeah. So I want to know,
1:20.8	we're going to talk about the percent of shots that you hit that travel at least 90% of the distance to the hole.
1:30.5	So here's how I want you to think of this.
1:32.7	So if you had a 100 yard shot, how many of your shots travel at least to 90 yards?
1:39.4	That would be total distance.
1:41.1	Is that the question or is that an example?
1:43.0	That's an example.
2:01.8	So I'm slowly walking you into this, Mark, because we're doing it live. Greg's already, Greg's already, I didn't even ask the question and Greg has already written his answers. Just an FYI, Lou, because I don't think you work that closely with my brains is going slowly helps, but the trouble is if you go slowly slowly my brain is already on to the fourth point and i'm not listening anymore so there's a i understand this yes
2:07.1	when you're speaking i'm flicking between a hundred different thoughts i know i know i can tell i can tell
2:14.2	um breg and i were just locked in right now.
2:18.1	Greg and I are just together.
2:19.6	I hear you.
2:20.3	So it's about percent of shots that travel at least 90 percent of the distance to the hole.
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