Welcome back to the Hack It Out Golf podcast. It's the main podcast. If you want to learn, have fun, understand stats. You've got PJ tall player Greg Chalmers, Lou Stagnar, our resident stat, and myself, Mark Crosswood, a golf pro of over 20 something years teaching people. So, you know, we're trying to deliver the best knowledge to help you play your

best game and hopefully have a few laughs along the way. Lou, Texas Wedge, I think you call it,

putting from off the green. Is that what you call a Texas Wedge over there? Is that what we call it?

Yeah, what do you call it over in the UK?

A pot?

Okay.

I presume it's a Texas wedge because Texas is windy and then the grass is often quite close compared to maybe Florida where it's lush and you wouldn't be parting off the green very often.

Is that where Texas wedge comes from? Does anyone know?

Just Googling.

I think that probably plays it.

Is it windy in texas and and

it's also really firm in texas right yeah so yeah baked out fairways short not a lot of grass

very sparse it's uh they live in the desert basically down there in texas gregn't yeah

yeah yeah so what's a t the Texas wedge is believed to originate it in the early 20th century in Texas. Many Texas golf courses are often built on hard, dry turf. And it was difficult golfers to make clean contact. There you go. Yeah. Just off the green. So let's hit a putter. Yes, absolutely. Not just off the green in some occasions.

I mean, this will come up in this pod,

and Lou, I think it's got some information on this,

some stats, Lou, I think you've got,

and you're going to deliver in a second.

Yeah, I'm going to read through a lot of numbers.

It's probably taking about 15 minutes.

But in the UK, it's not, it's just not a thing.

Like watching someone pup from off the green, it doesn't need a name because it just is a shot that, because we play so much Lynx golf where it's windy, it's hard pan.

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