SMS - Scratch and 15 Index, 175 in Fairway, Double or Worse
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. In this edition of the Saturday Stat, a golfer is sitting in the fairway, 175 yards from the hole. How likely is he to make double or worse if he's a scratch golfer? What if he's a 15-index? Mark and Greg register their guesses, and the actual number surprises them quite a bit. The takeaway: a lot of us have a lot to learn about making smart decisions on the course.
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| 0:00.0 | Saturdays that time. |
| 0:01.8 | Lou has a stat for us. Greg is the reigning champion. He's on a run. He's out of the dark times. One in a row. Last time he's one in a row, but he then had, I won the one before that, and then he won the one before. Like, it is, it's like tennis. He's back. I'm like,pras and I'm like Federer, you know. |
| 0:21.8 | Stopperts. |
| 0:22.3 | Yeah. How do you be Federer? You are not Federer. Samprass is pretty good to me. No, no. I've got you penciled in as more of a work course kind of player. Yeah, I'm more than Maconroe. Yeah, Maconroe. Yeah, Macon Row. Yeah, definitely. yelling at people. |
| 0:37.2 | When I was a kid, people used to call me Mark and Row. |
| 0:40.4 | Because we... |
| 0:41.1 | Ah, definitely. When I was a kid, people used to call me Mark and Roe because we... |
| 0:40.3 | Ah, that's great. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah, because I had a little bit of a temper, quite competitive as a young person, and there was maybe a few... |
| 0:49.3 | If you call me out, I'm taking these stumps home, they're mine, kind of. My mum and dad, when we would play, like with my brother, they would whisper, don't bowl him out in the first five balls. Otherwise, the whole game for the whole family was the end of. I could turn around and whack the stumps down and storm off. But I've grown out of all of that, Lou. |
| 1:28.3 | Yes, you have. No, you haven't. No, you haven't. That explains a lot. Thank you for that little insight. Because that absolutely clear. I like that. Oh, yeah, definitely. We're using that in the future. Absolutely. Right, Lou, what we got? Today we're talking about par fours. So you're on a par four. |
| 1:30.2 | Your drive has ended up in the fairway. |
| 1:28.2 | And you have a hundred. What we got? Today we're talking about par fours. So you're on a par four. |
| 1:30.2 | Your drive has ended up in the fairway. |
| 1:34.3 | And you have 175 yards to the hole. |
| 1:37.9 | So it's still got a bit of a healthy shot left. |
| 1:42.0 | What are your chances of making double bogey or worse? |
| 1:46.2 | First, we're going to do this for a scratch player. And then we're going to do this for a scratch player and then we're going to do this for a 15 index player so again double or worse yeah you hit you hit a good drive |
| 1:53.5 | or decent drive out of par four it's a longer par four you got 175 from the fairway what are your |
| 1:59.4 | chances of making double bogey or worse from 175 yards? Scratch players. And you want a percentage of that? Yeah, percentage of that. Greg, you get to go first. Okay. I'm going to- Scratch handicappers, sorry, scratch and 15. Scratch and 15. And what's the question? Double bogey or worse? Percent of the time they make double bogey or worse. For 175 yards out. 175 yards in the fairway. Oh, God. Oh, yeah, yeah. We're thinking quickly here. I'm going to, okay, I'd say Scratch. Are you good, Mark? Yeah. Okay, Scratch, I'm going to go with 13%. |
| 2:34.4 | Okay, I'm 17. |
| 2:36.6 | 17, okay. |
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