When Should You Make a Swing Change?

Hack It Out Golf

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

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When—and how—should you change your swing? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about when you should consider making a change, the reasons for making a change, and the work that is required to make that change stick. Golf improvement rarely comes by doing exactly what you've always done. 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

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0:00.0	When should you consider making a swing change?
0:03.0	This is a really interesting subject, hopefully for lots of people listening.
0:06.0	We got Greg and Lou with us today, myself Mark Crosswell,
0:08.2	a Hackett Out Golf podcast time.
0:11.7	It's an interesting subject.
0:13.9	I think first off, we could, and I don't know how to define,
0:18.8	but we need to define what a swing change is because
0:21.5	does that mean like a complete rebuild? Does it mean moving a ball position? Does it mean like a little
0:28.6	tweak? I guess it could kind of mean anything, couldn't it? I always wonder what people are
0:34.1	thinking when they say, you know, I want to, I want to change my swing.
0:39.4	I've definitely had lots of golfers come to me.
0:41.3	You say, I want to rebuild, go back to basics.
0:43.3	It's not working.
0:44.3	Like, you know, I've played for years.
0:46.1	I've never had many lessons.
0:47.3	I want to go back to basics.
0:48.9	And I can't remember ever going back to basics with any student because they often would
0:53.1	bring where they would be
0:55.7	an F, you know, F minus in some aspects of their game.
1:01.3	There are B plus in others.
1:02.6	So it's not like everything's bad.
1:05.1	It's just you do some good and you do some bad.
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