Superstitions, Shortcuts, and Gimmicks
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 489 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When the going gets tough, golfers sometimes look for a less tough option. In most episodes, Mark, Lou, and Greg try to get us to focus on things that really work to improve our golf. But in today's episode, they point out some of the things that golfers try that don't help. From unrelated superstitions to bad advice to gimmicky gadgets and clubs, here are some things to be on guard against if you want to shoot your best scores.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Hackett Out Golf Podcast, myself. Greg Chalmers, Lou Stagner, all in the house. |
| 0:05.4 | Fun episode today. I got three questions for the team. I would be interested. Some fun answers, |
| 0:09.9 | hopefully will come out of these and some serious ones kind of in a way. So my first question to you both is about superstitions. |
| 0:18.9 | What's the strangest golf superstition you've ever seen or secretly believe in yourself? |
| 0:24.7 | It doesn't have to be either or it can be either or such, as in do you believe it or not? |
| 0:29.7 | I'll kick this off for myself. |
| 0:31.1 | But I've never been a superstition person personally. |
| 0:33.9 | I don't have any superstitions. |
| 0:36.5 | I don't need to follow patterns. I don't need to |
| 0:38.4 | eat certain things. I just, it's, I don't believe in that for me personally. Just quickly |
| 0:46.3 | before you, if you have got a story about one, Lou, have you got superstitions or are you not |
| 0:50.7 | that way at all? There are definitely patterns that I follow. |
| 0:55.2 | Shocking. |
| 0:56.7 | Are pattern superstitions? |
| 0:58.6 | That's a great question. |
| 0:59.6 | I think patterns are fair. |
| 1:01.1 | You might want to warm up for a certain amount of time |
| 1:03.1 | because that's not a superstition. |
| 1:04.8 | That'll be based on something that you believe makes you better. |
| 1:08.8 | Is that a superstition? |
| 1:09.8 | I guess that kind of fringes the reality between. I would have thought the definition would involve something along the lines of it actually has to relate to the task at hand, right? If it's unrelated, meaning it has no bearing on what you're about to do, then it's probably a superstition. You know what I mean? So let's take, let's doesn't contribute to performance or whatever, you know what I'm. Let's take Nadal and his bottle straightening. That to me is fringing on a superstition. It's obviously also fringing on his personality trait. But like those bottles don't need to be straight for him to win his match. But have you ever seen him do that lo have used to be great |
| 1:44.9 | yeah it's very very twitchy very twitchy we'll have two or three bottles drinks bottles on the |
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