How Far Should You Hit Your 7 Iron?

Hack It Out Golf

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

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The 7-iron, in the middle of most player's bags, is often a benchmark club for distance. How far should you hit it? In this episode, Mark tackles this question with Lou and Greg. There are a number of ways to think about answering this question, from knowing what's typical at different indexes to knowing how to judge between your typical shot and your outliers. Do you want to be pin high more often? This discussion will help. Mark's video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSFTp6c4B-8 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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0:20.0	How far should you hit your seven iron?
0:22.8	I've done a YouTube video on this.
0:24.3	Anyone who wants to watch that, head over to my YouTube channel.
0:26.9	Maybe we'll pop a link in the show notes.
0:30.1	Lou and Greg in the house.
0:33.4	Obviously, it's an open-ended question,
0:35.1	and we'll hopefully go through some of the points about how far you should hit the 7-iron.
0:38.9	I've got some data-based, or Lou's done the data. I've just got it. I did a video on it, so I asked him for it.
0:44.7	Arcos data based on handicap, so indexes, how far different indexes hit their 7-iron.
0:52.2	And anyone listening, you could use this as some kind of benchmark.
0:55.6	Don't remember in all these numbers that we're going to call out, you could easily be a
1:01.1	scratch handicap, a hitting it way longer than this or way shorter. Like, there's always going to be
1:05.8	outliers and they're the ones always put their hands up and say, this is silly because I hit my seven
1:09.4	nine this far and I play off this handicap.
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