The State of Golf Commentary
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is wide-ranging: we begin with a recap of one of Mark's old tournaments and conclude with Mark and Lou's thoughts going into Scottie's final round of this past weekend's Open Championship. But in between, the heart of the discussion has to do with commentary on golf—including a shockingly inaccurate explanation from last week's major. How important is good information in golf commentary?
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| 0:00.0 | is this the beginning of the end lou i fear that this is the beginning of the end until |
| 0:06.8 | the end is already here my friend oh it's just me and lou today gregg is traveling the world |
| 0:13.9 | with family and getting ready to play in i don't know some british open or some all the senior |
| 0:18.9 | open it's not the bridge i don't like the like the fact that Greg playing professional golf gets in the way of him being on the podcast. |
| 0:27.3 | I know. |
| 0:27.7 | I might start playing in like the men's Wednesday, Stapleford. |
| 0:31.1 | And then you'll have to do that the same to a Mark's like playing in some amateur event. |
| 0:35.9 | Mark's got 29 points off a five handicapped on the wednesday |
| 0:39.3 | second year to couldn't make it today because he's drowning his sorrows when is the when is the last |
| 0:46.2 | time that you played in the tournament do you remember no i don't i played the exit pro am because i used |
| 0:53.5 | to teach someone who used to hassle me to play it constantly. And I just played it because he's a lovely guy. And I wanted to like, you know, he was a nice guy, good customer. And I remember, this, okay, I'll go and off piece here, but I'm going to tell you the story, right? I'll tell you. So I haven't played much. |
| 1:11.5 | I was like two under after, I don't know, 14, 15, 16, old. So, you know, I'm out there four hours and I'm two under and I don't play and that's like, I'm doing all right. It's going to win. Four under is probably going to win, maybe five, maybe even six. It's not a hard course, but two under's like, I can show my face anywhere if I can finish par or two under. I hear shot up 16 down the right, but it's fine. We get up there. I can't find it. So I have to go back to the tea. Oh, no. Yeah. So it's like, well, that's weird, but I would have hit a provisional. I'm not provisional proud, like, but there was no one would ever hit a provisional where I hit that ball. And then up 18, I hit like a drive slightly up the right, just in the semi, like the first cut, no trees, couldn't find it. I had to go back to the tea again. And I think I finished like four over, two over or something. |
| 2:03.0 | Like I, you know, I had a three put in between. |
| 2:04.8 | So all that work and just the last few holes, it just ended because two really |
| 2:08.4 | freak out ways. |
| 2:09.5 | And then I got in a score in 10. |
| 2:12.5 | And the, I'm not going to say what I wanted to say there because I just despise golf sometimes. |
| 2:19.8 | The person, very nice person, very slim, nice person who doesn't eat bacon rolls all time in the |
| 2:25.2 | score intent said, you lost 15 minutes on your group. |
| 2:28.3 | It's the first thing he said to me. |
| 2:30.1 | Well, what? |
| 2:31.5 | We waited all around. |
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