Rangefinders on the PGA Tour

Hack It Out Golf

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

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The PGA Tour recently announced several changes that are designed to speed up play, including allowing rangefinders during tournament rounds. In this episode, Lou, Mark, and Greg discuss these changes. Among the topics: will this actually speed up play? What other technology should be permitted for tournament rounds? And is determining distance for your shot one of the skills of golf? 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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0:30.7	Rangefinders, the saviour of the PGA tour, the answer, the answer to all the problems. I know what it is. It's range
0:41.2	finders. So PGA tour of hinted or they've released a statement, I think, is it, Lou, where they're
0:46.3	actually thinking of allowing the players to use range finders in tournament player. At the moment,
0:51.4	they'll be using books. They'll be pacing things out from sprinklers. You know, so a lot of manual work done by the player in the cali that's why you see
0:58.1	those huge books in their pocket where now there'll be an element where they can just buzz the flag
1:04.2	with a range trying to get a yardage but i mean they're still going to use their book because that
1:08.1	just gives you a two the pin number they're going to want to know how much green there is and how far short that bunker is.
1:14.0	But anyway, they are the answer.
1:16.2	Don't worry about Liv.
1:17.5	It's range finders.
1:18.8	I'm just glad they found the answer.
1:20.3	Lou, are you happy?
1:21.6	The answer's being found.
1:22.6	I'm always happy.
1:23.9	I'm always saffy. I'm always saffy. I shouldn't do this. You're punchy.
1:28.3	You're very punchy.
1:29.3	I'm not punchy.
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