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Hack It Out Golf

SMS - Scratch Players, Scoring Average, Easy vs Hard Courses

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Golf, Education, Sports

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. The course rating system for handicap purposes is a mystery to many golfers, even some avid ones. What happens to the scoring of a scratch golfer when he plays a course that, by rating, is relatively versus a round on a course with a much higher rating? In this episode, Lou poses that question to Mark and Greg, and then they talk about handicaps, how courses are rated, and how the courses and tees you play might affect your index.


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!


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0:00.0

Saturday stat time and Lou is talking in language that me and Greg don't really understand.

0:06.4

Greg more than me.

0:07.4

I do that.

0:08.1

That happens most often here.

0:09.3

Yeah.

0:10.1

I talk a lot of things you too don't understand.

0:12.2

We're talking handicaps and indexes and I haven't been involved in that world for a long time,

0:16.8

Greg longer than me and I'm still trying to work out what an earth's saying here, but go on. Did you used to work, Greg? I understand. Scratch is the word I used to make sense of. Is that what you understand? Yeah. And to be fair to your opening statement, it's not that I don't understand, it's that I don't care. Yeah. I kind of don't as well. I always think if I need

0:42.7

free goes, there's no disrespect to everyone listening because I love the handicapped system.

0:46.9

It levels it. It makes us all play. But if I had to have free goes at golf, I probably wouldn't

0:53.1

play. So when I played tennis, when I played against the pro or in

0:58.6

like the A team, which I was a beating player, we played the A team, I didn't want help. I just wanted

1:03.7

to be better. I didn't go, go, can I start 30 love up? Because I'd rather not play than do that.

1:10.5

Anyway, I've just upset every index golfer on the planet,

1:14.5

so I apologize for that. But there you go. Yeah, there's a method. There's a method to this madness.

1:20.5

So I'm trying to educate both of you a little bit more about the handicap system. Greg, more so

1:26.3

than Mark, because we need Greg to get up to speed

1:30.0

on how this all works for when he finally plays in that future member guest with me. So I want him

1:36.9

to understand this world so he's ready and prepared. So I can let my handicap slide out just a little

1:43.6

before we come over. Yeah. Yes, love that. All right, here we go. So I could let my handicap slide out just a little before we come over. Yeah.

1:45.3

Yes, love that. All right, here we go. So today's question, we're talking about

1:49.6

scratch players, so players with a zero index, and we are talking their scoring average. And we're

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