SMS - Yardage to Hit to 30 Feet, Tour Pro, Scratch, and 15
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 22 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the "Saturday Morning Golf Stat" from the Hack it Out Golf Podcast. How close do you need to be to the hole so that more of your shots finish outside 30 feet than inside? That's the question Lou puts to Mark and Greg in today's episode. It turns out, amateurs are often harder on themselves than they should be—and that we don't have enough awe at how good professionals are at this game.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Saturday sat time. We got three-part question today. Have we, Lou? |
| 0:06.7 | We do, yeah. And just so everyone knows, as you know, we do the questions beforehand. |
| 0:12.0 | It just took Mark 25 minutes to understand this question. So this ought to be entertaining. |
| 0:17.0 | So here's the question. From what yardage in the fairway are players more likely to hit it outside |
| 0:23.3 | 30 feet than inside 30 feet? And we're going to do this for a Tor Pro, a scratch player, and a 15 |
| 0:31.1 | index. So again, from what yardage in the fairway are they more likely to hit it outside 30 feet |
| 0:36.9 | than inside 30 feet? |
| 0:38.7 | And just to note, it doesn't matter if the ball finished on the green or not, just that it |
| 0:43.9 | finished more than 30 feet from the hole. So it doesn't matter. If it's in a bunker in the |
| 0:49.4 | rough on the fringe, more than 30 feet is our question. Tough that mark you get to go first and we're |
| 0:56.7 | going to start with tour pro so how many yards mark says 140 okay is this a free part question is this |
| 1:04.7 | three part yeah yeah yeah Greggy I have one five five. One five. |
| 1:11.6 | Okay. |
| 1:14.1 | Greg, you get to go now for the scratch player. |
| 1:16.6 | I went to 115. |
| 1:17.6 | 115. |
| 1:20.1 | Okay, I went 90. |
| 1:21.4 | 90. |
| 1:22.7 | Okay. |
| 1:24.8 | And then finally mark 15 index. |
| 1:26.8 | God, this is, I've gone 30 yards. |
| 1:30.3 | I've hammered them. Okay. Yeah 50 okay because the 15s let us down last time didn't they like massively always not as bad as |
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