The One Stupid Hole
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 488 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
If you have a course you play regularly, you almost certainly have one hole that gives you fits. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg give advice for troublesome holes. If a hole makes you choose between tee shot lengths, do you know which one creates a better average score for you? Do you have a 'get it in play' shot that you can rely on when there's trouble everywhere? And how do you get past the mental scars on holes like this?
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| 0:00.0 | Question from Adam Edwards. |
| 0:06.7 | And he asks, I think this is a common question from everyday golfers and pros actually as well. |
| 0:14.3 | I think we all understand this question. |
| 0:16.9 | He asks, why do I struggle on one hole, the same hole, every week, two or three |
| 0:24.4 | over on the same? He uses a word that I won't use, hole. So you can insert your own word |
| 0:33.0 | before the last word. Explicative slash hole. |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah. Subject who's in the car or who's listening in the kitchen or whatever. |
| 0:41.7 | So he is saying he struggles on one hole every week at his course. |
| 0:45.3 | Like it's the same hour when he blows out two or three over. |
| 0:47.6 | Like this is a common, more common than people give it credit to Fort. You know, I've had lots of amateurs asked me this. |
| 0:57.1 | I can remember playing as a member at a course. So you play the same course every week as an |
| 1:02.1 | amateur. And there were holes where it was like this one. I always did it over there on this |
| 1:06.2 | hole. Like there's certain patterns and shapes that push you in certain ways and lumps of holes and what have you. |
| 1:13.1 | Out of interest, Lou, I don't know if you've done anything on this with everyday golfers on stats. |
| 1:18.3 | I guess it's quite hard without actually talking to the person. |
| 1:22.9 | Would you see, you wouldn't see this in data unless you actually you'd need to know the person's inner demons, I guess, would you? |
| 1:29.7 | Well, I mean, you do see when you look at things like scoring average by the handicap of the hole. |
| 1:37.6 | Like, you do see that the harder holes play harder. |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.9 | And the easier holes play easier. |
| 1:42.7 | So you do see that. |
| 1:43.9 | And I wouldn't be surprised if |
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