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Assessing and Addressing One's Own Biases in Golf Course (Emotional Respones)

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Kyle Harris:

--- Quote from: Greg Hohman on Today at 02:10:17 PM ---Kyle, would your work be a candidate for an opinion piece, then a thread for the DG?

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No, I don't think it's worth that. I have nothing to say other than what I did and was more posting a discussion thread for other's own assessments if ever done.

In reading reviews across this site and others I think we tend to steer toward what we know or could speak to. So many golf course reviews discuss anything other than golf or the golf course. I used this as an exercise to check myself in this regard, too, and wanted to see if I could plot any trends in my own biases as I rate things vs. how I would review them.

That is to say that the courses I am most compelled to write about likely have a higher returnability rating than raw golf course rating and that the more substanstive writings would probably be about places with high deltas between the two. Or interesting ones.

"What's the best golf course I've played that I wouldn't return to?"  ;D

Ira Fishman:
Kyle,


Cool question. For me, Butler National (too damn hard when I was 25 let alone 45 years later), and both Kingsbarns and Castle Stuart (the whole faux Scottish vibe with the spiel from the starter and scripted caddies plus the courses were very good but not great). We played Kilspindie on the same trip as KB; checked in at the little hutch and off we went. We played Golspie and Brora on the same trip as CS; enough said.


Btw, we had a split decision on your place. I definitely would go back for the quality of Red and Blue (the latter is way under appreciated) plus I liked the rooms. My wife is not interested in returning. She loved the golf, but it felt too for profit, corporate plus she did not like not being near a town.


Ira

Rob Marshall:
Where can I find the Doak scale?

Kalen Braley:

--- Quote from: Rob Marshall on Today at 04:16:32 PM ---Where can I find the Doak scale?

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https://golfcoursegurus.com/rankings/doakscale.php

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