Assuming that proscenia is the proper Latin plural of proscenium, I'm off to a good start.
Recently whilst playing, I've been haunted by the repeating notion that Golf is a two-dimensional game played on a three-dimensional field.
I employ the analogy of the Proscenium Arch here to illustrate the sensation I am trying to describe.
It seems to me that there is a particular feature of the journey of a round of golf which is utterly two-dimensional. After each shot is played, there is a momentary condition where the next shot is 'framed' (sorry!) in the context of a view, a set of landscape features and a field of play for this one shot unique to itself. E.g. the approach to TOC 17 - a frame in which to decide a strategy - right side and knock on, fire at the pin and pray, left and play that mad/fun approach.
The Proscenium Arch actually has manifested itself to me at a number of courses I've played recently. I tend to visualise shots in terms of a picture. Sure, there's 3 dimensions, but the overall view is 'where am I hitting on the canvas?' - kind of like those games where you hit a ball at a projected computer view on a screen and it all gets calculated for you.
Please tell me I'm not going mad and that this actually might be a defensible way in which to visualise a golf course and also one with which to play this game.
thank you,
FBD.