What Is an Amateur and Changes at St Andrews
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Lou, Mark, and Greg revisit and expand some of their recent discussion on professionals regaining their amateur status, pulling on a lot of threads of what is a challenging conversation with (pardon the pun) a lot of pros and cons. Then they discuss the announced changes being made to the Old Course at St Andrews.
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| 0:00.0 | two parts for you today two questions i've got for the guys gregg and lou in the house smart |
| 0:05.5 | crosswood here on the mic for the hacking out golf podcast thanks for listening to everybody |
| 0:09.2 | thanks for the comments this week that people have been sending from the pods that have been |
| 0:13.7 | out loads more coming and thanks for the support um question one for both you we've kind of touched |
| 0:18.6 | on this before but i just want to touch on it a bit more. It's Colt Nost, turning Am. I think he's actually turned Am. He's got his Am at a status back, isn't he? No, no. He wants to. He brought it up in a podcast, yes, as something he might potentially pursue, correct? Okay. |
| 0:39.0 | Now, I understand. |
| 0:42.4 | I've seen Greg, Joy, you know, you know Colt, I presume, Greg. |
| 0:42.9 | I do. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah, I text him, I. |
| 0:47.5 | He was getting rained on on Golf X, you know, like on Twitter. So he was getting rammed, I'm sure, by the, oh, he's too good. |
| 0:52.1 | He's the fair. |
| 0:53.5 | He's the first. It was better to be. Oh, he's too good. He's the fair. He's not fair. |
| 0:54.5 | Someone's better to be. |
| 0:56.4 | Oh, oh, people. |
| 0:58.2 | Here we go. |
| 0:58.6 | So you've kind of heard my stance. |
| 1:00.0 | But what I like about this discussion is that Lou, I think you're even digging back, Lou. |
| 1:06.3 | Were you on X digging back at Colt, was he? |
| 1:08.7 | I did. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.2 | I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. And you know what? I'm proud of what I wrote. And I would write it again. I'm proud of what I deleted. I'm proud. No, it's still out there. I just scrolled back and found it. I can read the whole thing for you if you like. Hit me. Hit me. Because I just before you read it, just before we read it, we did a full poll on this. I think it was a full pod. It might have been another two or three part. Where I thought me and Greg actually changed Lou's opinion. If you listen back to that pod, there is a point where Lou does say, I don't like to say this, but I've changed my opinion a bit on this. But then this came up, and I saw Lou posting, and I was thinking, God, his opinions are a bit remarkable-esque, aren't they? They're just flying all over the place. I thought my rethink. |
| 2:02.2 | I have. Which way the wind's blowing. |
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