Do You Remember All of Your Shots in a Round?

[Golfingdad]

:offtopic: Just FYI, looks like Old Works is in some financial trouble.  They almost shut down last October, but are trying to limp ahead and find enough funding to keep going.  Seems to be sort of a week to week thing.  There seems to be an ongoing battle between ARCO (owned by parent BP) and the local EPA Superfund director.  If the course closes, ARCO is apparently still responsible for cleaning up the toxic waste that the course serves as a cap for.  The articles I read never mentioned any potential costs involved in that, only the money the course needs to continue operation.

Well that's sad! That course was beautiful. And lihu, it's not technically a dump, just a repurposed old copper mill or mine. Rancho San Joaquin in irvine is built over a landfill and it shows ... That place is literally and figuratively a dump!!!

[Lihu]

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Originally Posted by Fourputt

Just FYI, looks like Old Works is in some financial trouble.  They almost shut down last October, but are trying to limp ahead and find enough funding to keep going.  Seems to be sort of a week to week thing.  There seems to be an ongoing battle between ARCO (owned by parent BP) and the local EPA Superfund director.  If the course closes, ARCO is apparently still responsible for cleaning up the toxic waste that the course serves as a cap for.  The articles I read never mentioned any potential costs involved in that, only the money the course needs to continue operation.

Well that's sad! That course was beautiful. And lihu, it's not technically a dump, just a repurposed old copper mill or mine.

Rancho San Joaquin in irvine is built over a landfill and it shows ... That place is literally and figuratively a dump!!!

Mangrove Bay turned out to be one too, which is why I was hesitant in looking for any of my stray balls.

A copper mine doesn't sound all that bad, so why is the EPA Superfund director battling the course owners? I don't really put a copper mine in the same category as Love Canal, NY.

[rkim291968]

Let's see what I did 4 days ago.

Par 4 hole number 1 - shanked a drive left into deep junk (eventually a lost ball), hit a beautiful provision drive, hit a 5 iron approach shot missing the green by 4 yards.  Hit a chip shot close and one putted from 4 feet for a double bogey.

Par 4 hole number 2 - hit a drive to right, overshot an iron shot past green, chip and two putted for a bogey.

Par 3 hole #3 - missed the green by 2 yards, chip, and two putted for a bogey.

Par 4 hole #4 - hit a drive to right, hit an iron shot to just right of green, chip and two putted for a bogey.

Par 5 hole #5 - hit a drive to right, ...., mmm, .... blank.  Can't think what happened next.   Nope, I can't remember all my shots in a round.

[Lihu]

Let's see what I did 4 days ago.

Par 4 hole number 1 - shanked a drive left into deep junk (eventually a lost ball), hit a beautiful provision drive, hit a 5 iron approach shot missing the green by 4 yards.  Hit a chip shot close and one putted from 4 feet for a double bogey.

Par 4 hole number 2 - hit a drive to right, overshot an iron shot past green, chip and two putted for a bogey.

Par 3 hole #3 - missed the green by 2 yards, chip, and two putted for a bogey.

Par 4 hole #4 - hit a drive to right, hit an iron shot to just right of green, chip and two putted for a bogey.

Par 5 hole #5 - hit a drive to right, ...., mmm, .... blank.  Can't think what happened next.   Nope, I can't remember all my shots in a round.

Yeah, I can only remember them immediately after a round, and only on a course with which I am familiar. If I am on an unfamiliar course things start to get kind of fuzzy on the back 9 for remembering my first hole. This is why I usually try to log stuff in GolfLogix and on a scorecard. On courses I don't play often, I simply jot down a bunch of semi-organized notes on a scorecard.

[joekelly]

I do not clutter up my few remaining brain cells with yesterday's rubbish.  A few good shots i do permit to remain in my brain,  until tomorrow.

[dfreuter415]

I have no problem remembering each hole on a course that I have played a number of times. In fact, I go home and record my hole by hole score at oobgolf.com, where I then have a compilation of stats since 2009.

However, when I play a new course, I always use a scorecard and record the score, number of putts, and fairways hit (R, √, or L). For a week or so, I can remember each hole of a new course, as long as I use the scorecard.

[Aguirre]

Remembering shots after my round isn't an issue for me. @Aguirre, do your friends drink a lot when they play?

Ha. I usually have 2-4 cold ones when I play.  But I'd say that most of my playing partners don't drink at all.

I played in a scramble last June and a playing partner forgot the scorecard.  They were all worried because they thought we would be out of the skins game and we had a shot with an eagle.  No worries, I said, I remember every shot on every hole.  They challenged me on this and I asked them to name a hole and I told them all exactly what they did (couldn't name their actual clubs of course, but I got every shot right).

And since that was a scramble and I had a ride, I was drinking fairly heavily.  Beer.  I like it.

[The Recreational Golfer]

Yes, I do.

When I get home I write them down in detail so I can see what shots worked and what shots I need to practice.

I remember distances, clubs, lie, terrain, wind, everything.

[rkim291968]

The real question for me is if I want to remember every shot.   Unfortunately, I remember all the bad shots very clearly ... for days.

[Zeph]

I usually remember all long shots, but chips and putts I struggle with.

[DaBush87]

I usually remember all long shots, but chips and putts I struggle with.

If it's a little two foot putt then I will not remember it. But a 20 footer for birdie will stick in my mind a lot longer. Same scenario for chips.

[Roblar]

Not at all.

By the end of 18, I'm not sure I remember the shots on some holes from the front nine.

[Bird E3]

Yup, I remember and replay them in my mind. It helps me to figure out a gameplan for next time. Another nice thing about memory is If I play a course once, and go back a coople years later, I can remember every club I used, and distances which helps big time 2nd time around.

[RH31]

I replay every round in my mind on the way home from the course. Playable drives, GIRs, up and downs, the whole bit.

I can remember some really good and really bad shots that I hit up to about 20 years ago.

[cedrictheo]

I can remember the round that evening fairly well but that's about it. My memory is particularly bad when it comes to putting. I have never thought, oh I remember this putt breaks this way... Thank God for aimpoint.

[lumpuckeroo]

I remember all my shots from a round for several days, even if I play on a Saturday and Sunday, I'll remember the rounds for a couple of days. I think I lose them as I get ready for the next week and do a little mental imagining of how I want to play my next round.

[dennyjones]

I remember the previous round in detail trying to track my improvement.   I can't say I remember more than that because (if my wife was looking over my shoulder) I can't remember yesterday's dinner, or what she was wearing.

[Patch]

Back when I was charting my games played, (40 years ago?)  looking for weak spots, I made up my own score card. It had 100 lines on it, 25 in each quadrant of the paper I printed it out on. Once folded, it was about the size of a regular score card. There were no numbered holes, or pars on the card. Just lines, numbered 1-100. The lines represented each stroke, and/or putt I took for the 18 holes. No, I never used all 100 lines. Mostly I was using 76-82 lines.

The way I had each line set up gave me lie, yardage, club selected, and the out come of the stroke. It did not take any longer to fill it out than a regular score card, and I usually filled out the info on my walk  to my next shot.  A typical line might read; T, 400, D, FWL.  What that meant was I had a tee shot, on a 400 yard hole, used my driver, and the ball landed in the left side of the fairway. The next line would give the same info on how I played that second shot.

I could take the 18 hole information, and over time, using several match histories, I  would see the what was going on in certain situations. I remember one time seeing that I was having trouble, and losing strokes with longer fairway bunker shots. I kept coming up short of my intended yardage. Knowing this info gave me a practice regimen to avoid landing in those fairway bunkers to begin with. In another instance perhaps my putting history showed I was missing too many 6' - 10' putts. So, I would practice getting the ball inside that 6' mark, while also practicing 10' putts.

I did this for about 200 rounds. The info I obtained for my own game improvement during those rounds made me a better golfer, in all areas of my game.