SMS - Rough Equivalent of 200 Yards in FW, Scratch, 10, and 20
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. Being in the fairway is better than being in the rough—but by how much? In this episode, Lou asks Greg and Mark how close in the rough golfers of differing skills levels would need to be to average the same number of shots to hole out as they do from 200 in the fairway. The answers might surprise you; they certainly surprised Greg and Mark.
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| 0:00.0 | Saturday stat time and we've had a little pre-statt. |
| 0:05.0 | We always, and it's taken slightly longer than normal for me to understand the question. |
| 0:10.0 | It was brutal. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm not feeling great to be fair. |
| 0:14.6 | I can only use that as an excuse because to be, I get it wrong quite a lot. |
| 0:19.2 | But Lou, ask the question where everyone will just |
| 0:22.1 | understand it straight away and then now think what does he not understand about that question |
| 0:26.6 | all right so what is it from 200 yards in the fairway you are going to average a certain number of |
| 0:32.3 | shots to get the ball in the hole from what distance in the rough will you average the same |
| 0:37.2 | number of shots as you will from |
| 0:39.1 | 200 yards in the fairway? And this question is going to be for a scratch, a 10, and a 20. So you'll be |
| 0:46.8 | giving me a yardage from the rough for each one of those. And again, what yardage in the rough is going to |
| 0:53.1 | equal 200 yards in the fairway from the average number of shots to get down? |
| 0:59.0 | Scratch, 10 and 20. |
| 1:01.4 | And for some, like in some incredible way, Mark somehow won the last one. |
| 1:06.5 | And based after him trying to understand this question, I don't know how he wins any of these. |
| 1:12.1 | Dude, I want our listeners to understand what I just went through off there. |
| 1:15.8 | Like, I had to explain this to Mark. |
| 1:18.8 | Like, I literally, I think I pulled crayons. |
| 1:22.1 | At one point, I think I had an abacus. |
| 1:25.1 | Like, and I actually said the phrase, if you say, if you don't say a distance and you say 28 |
| 1:30.2 | percent, I'm going to jump through this screen and strangle you myself. |
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