SMS - PW from Fairway, Scratch and 15, Greens Hit
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 488 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
From the same yardage, better golfers are, well, better. Duh. But better golfers most often are hitting less club from the same distance. If a scratch golfer and 15-index both have a pitching wedge from the fairway, won't they hit the green at a similar rate? That's the question the Lou puts to Mark and Greg. Once they settle the winner for the weekend, they talk about the advantages of a better player, and how we all can hit more greens in our next rounds.
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| 0:00.0 | Saturday sat time. Greg is on an ultimate heater. He's invincible. I'm looking forward to what we have this week, Lou, because honestly, I'm beside myself. I don't really know what to do at the moment. |
| 0:15.2 | I don't know. I haven't asked Lou, are you starting to feel sorry for Mark or are you? |
| 0:19.5 | Someone has to feel sorry for me somewhere, surely. |
| 0:22.4 | Other than yourself? |
| 0:25.6 | You know, I, to answer your question, Greg, no, I don't feel sorry. |
| 0:30.4 | Subtle as a brick to the head. |
| 0:32.9 | No, not at all. |
| 0:34.1 | He's loving every second of it, Greg. |
| 0:36.7 | But today, today, we're going into a world that Mr. Mark Crossfield loves, and we're talking pitching wedges today. Mark's always been, I think, a good wedge player. Is that fair to say? Not now. I used to be. I'm pretty rubbish now, to be fair. As an adult, I've got rubbish, but I used to be, yeah. All right. Well, |
| 0:55.5 | today we're talking pitching wedges. So we're talking players hitting pitching wedge from |
| 1:01.3 | the fairway. And we're going to look at two different skill levels, scratch players and 15 |
| 1:07.6 | index players. And when they hit their pitching wedge from the fairway, |
| 1:13.6 | what percent of the time are they hitting the green? |
| 1:17.5 | Regardless of Yadage? |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah, whatever. |
| 1:20.8 | They have a pitching wedge in their hand, right? |
| 1:23.1 | These are full swings. |
| 1:24.2 | These are not chip shots or anything. |
| 1:25.7 | These are full swing distances. |
| 1:28.0 | What percent of the time are they hitting the green? So this is for a scratch and a 15 index. |
| 1:36.3 | And because we only have two, we're going to decide the winner by total delta. |
| 1:41.6 | Total delta. |
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