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

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.6 • 489 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 13 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.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Saturday stat time and apparently we're doing it live.
0:03.9	Is that how he said it?
0:05.1	We are doing it live.
0:08.3	I'm doing an impression.
0:10.0	We are doing it live.
0:13.2	When you watch a video,
0:14.5	not say it like that.
0:15.5	Is that the accent and how it works?
0:17.8	No, not even close.
0:20.0	Not even close. Yes, we're doing it live. That's a even close. Not even close.
0:21.8	Yes.
0:22.2	We're doing it live.
0:23.1	That's a good one.
0:24.3	I think this one is really relevant to both of you.
0:27.5	I would say that both of you are subpar ball strikers compared to someone like myself.
0:34.9	And it's important to make good, clean, crisp contact.
0:38.7	So that's what today's Saturday stat is about.
0:41.0	This is an interesting one from the, this is a deep dive into the Arcos database.
0:45.9	Oh, we're going deep.
0:47.2	We're going deep.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:49.4	So I want to know, we're going to talk about the percent of shots that you hit that travel at least
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