What Even Is Shallowing?
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 488 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
When the best player in the world is "struggling," everyone has a solution. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about the language of the golf swing. It seems everyone talks about shallowing, but few define it. What is shallowing? Why does it matter? And shouldn't we have some idea what we're talking about before we talk?
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| 0:30.3 | Lots of talk at the moment about shallowing and steepening. Yeah. Which I'm finding quite frustrating, |
| 0:36.5 | guys. You got to help me out here. I'm really struggling. I'm finding quite frustrating, guys. |
| 0:39.0 | You got to help me out here. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm really struggling. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm really struggling. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah, why are you struggling? |
| 0:45.2 | Talk to us. |
| 0:46.0 | We're here to help you. |
| 0:51.1 | He's watching experts break it down who, not necessarily experts as my take. The experts are beyond painful. |
| 0:55.5 | And embarrassing. |
| 0:57.3 | Like, it's so embarrassing. |
| 0:59.8 | But it's one of those classic coaching conversations because there is no point |
| 1:04.8 | of reference. |
| 1:05.5 | So everyone's just howling at the moon. |
| 1:07.7 | And let's demonstrate that here because I can drop you two in the rubbish by highlighting it. What is steepening and what is shallowing? Does anyone have a go at it? Yeah. Does anyone have a go? You could have gone, Lou, you live in this world. I don't think about this stuff because I drop it in the slot and I turn and burn. What's deepening and what's shallowing? |
| 1:28.4 | Come on, what is it? |
| 1:29.3 | And burn. |
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