Superstitions, Shortcuts, and Gimmicks

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 27 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. To get the best discount off your NordVPN plan - go to ⁠⁠nordvpn.com/hackitout⁠⁠. Our link will also give you 4 extra months on the 2-year plan. There's no risk with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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.
0:18.8	What's the strangest golf superstition you've ever seen or secretly
0:23.2	believe in yourself is the question. So it doesn't have to be either or it can be either or
0:27.6	such, as in do you believe it or not? I'll kick this off for myself. But I've never been a
0:32.4	superstition person personally. I don't have any superstitions. 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 right question.
0:59.6	I think patterns are fair.
1:01.1	Like 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.
1:12.5	I would have thought the definition would involve something along the lines of it actually has to
1:16.3	relate to the task at hand, right? If it's unrelated, meaning it has no bearing on what you're about
1:22.9	to do, then it's probably a superstition. You know what I mean? If it doesn't contribute to performance or whatever, you know what I mean? Let's take Nadal and his bottle straightening. Right. 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, Lou? Have you used to be great... Yeah, it's very, very twitchy. We'll have two or three bottles, drinks bottles on the ground, and they have to be faced a certain way. Like you'll see him fiddling with them. It's proper. Is that OCD? Is that what we might call that? Yes. Which isn't a negative. We just, you know,
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