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Doug Wright

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Re: How photographic is your memory for golf courses?
« Reply #50 on: October 22, 2010, 12:59:10 PM »
It's just like my golf - declining as I age

Ditto, though I'm still far better at recalling golf courses than anyone else I hang out with.
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RJ_Daley

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Re: How photographic is your memory for golf courses?
« Reply #51 on: October 22, 2010, 01:37:49 PM »
I have had the opportunity a few times to visit and walk a great course before I played it, and sometimes while it was being built.  Those pre-round walks have always helped me to get myself oriented so that when I do play it, I seem to remember it better, good or bad course design....

I walked about Sand Hills in part twice before I had a chance to play there.  I saw Ballyneal in very rough grubbing and just raw routing, before I played it.   I walked Rustic Canyon in grow-in stage.  All that helped me in maintaining a lasting visual. 

When playing a new course, or one I haven't played, I love a good yardage book with hole overviews.  I tend to put a dot where my shots land, and that helps me.  I also use a camera, but that does also get distracting looking for the right angle to show a unique and interesting design feature while trying to play. 

Without those memory aids, I don't usually have as good of hole detail memory on a hit and run sort of first play.  Then, I am left more with overall impressions rather than design feature details particularly of the routing sequence and which holes come in order.
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Gary Daughters

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Re: How photographic is your memory for golf courses?
« Reply #52 on: October 22, 2010, 01:50:07 PM »

Unbeknownst to me it used to be a source of amusement among my golf buddies that I would start recounting certain holes or features thereof.  Must not be a coincidence that I ended up here.
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David Camponi

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Re: How photographic is your memory for golf courses?
« Reply #53 on: October 22, 2010, 05:34:32 PM »
I've never forgotten a hole I've been in.

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