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Hack It Out Golf

The State of Broadcast Analytics

Hack It Out Golf

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

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8709 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Are you more knowledgeable about the game of golf because of the broadcasts of the professional tours? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg compare some of the ways that advanced analytics are presented in other major sports to golf, and consider ways in which the popular knowledge of the game could be improved with better information presented well for the fans of the game. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greg's got a job for Lou.

0:02.4

Greg is literally trying to set Lou up with a new job.

0:05.6

I'm not sure he's the right man for the job.

0:08.0

And that's not the question is brain capacity, because that's huge, like my arms at the minute.

0:14.8

Yeah.

0:15.5

Oh, boy.

0:16.2

There's an analogy we're all after.

0:18.0

He's grown his muscle in there.

0:20.3

Does your head get bigger, Lou, as you get better at most?

0:23.2

That is a big, giant, fat, round coconut like Cartman from South Park.

0:29.1

Anyway, Greg, wants to ask a good question, I think, about stats in sport generally and how it relates to golf and the presentation, I think, of it.

0:38.3

Greg, explain. Yeah, so I listen to an awful lot of sport radio living here in Dallas, and I was

0:43.7

listening to a breakdown of the Cowboys game last night, which they're pretty terrible at the

0:47.3

moment. But there's, and most American sports think baseball, basketball, and football.

0:54.0

The fans are very, very educated

0:56.2

on statistical analysis. It's a very heavy analysis of decisions made during game, key decisions

1:04.3

made during game at all levels. And there's a lot of breakdown in where they did and why they

1:10.7

did it

1:11.2

should they have done that based on the you know what the stats say did they do the right

1:16.3

thing i think in the world series we saw a guy slide into home plate should he have ran instead

1:21.3

of slide there's all these sort of breakdowns that go on and golf has made me thinking

1:26.3

that golf is very much in its infancy in that area.

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