You're Really Not Better Than a Tour Pro
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 489 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
If you listen to this podcast, you probably know a number of benchmark stats. One well-known one: Tour pros make half their putts from 8 feet. But what if you're better than that? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg try to bring some perspective to the use of statistics and expectation management—one in which you have lofty goals and reasonable expectations.
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| 0:00.0 | lose Twitter, |
| 0:01.2 | lose Twitter. |
| 0:01.8 | If you don't follow it, |
| 0:03.1 | you should, |
| 0:03.6 | because it is entertaining |
| 0:04.7 | and it's also educational. |
| 0:06.3 | He does have a great account. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm well-rounded. |
| 0:09.8 | Well, it's getting a little punchy of late, |
| 0:12.9 | I find, |
| 0:13.4 | and I'm quite enjoying the punch. |
| 0:15.3 | So Lou tweeted, |
| 0:18.2 | I want to start a YouTube series. |
| 0:24.4 | We find a, find the random 510 index Twitter golfers that believe they perform better than a typical PGA tour player at a given skill. |
| 0:29.5 | We show up there, we show up at their club and film them, then they win money, if they |
| 0:35.3 | are indeed better, is what he has said. |
| 0:38.2 | So he basically wants to take the average 5 or 10 Twitter user who, you know, |
| 0:43.8 | you do get some interesting comments when you post about golf online on shorts |
| 0:49.6 | with any sport and any subject. |
| 0:52.4 | And you certainly do get huge unawarnesses of what good or bad golf is. |
| 0:58.9 | I mean, just I've experienced this for years. |
| 1:02.1 | I might have mentioned this lots on the pods. |
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