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Originally Posted by DockNiaz
Cool thread and a really nice read! A few questions from me:
1. How does the standard golf-betting match go down? Is it standard stroke play over 18 holes? Match play? Set $ numer/hole?
2. What is the strongest/weakest part of your golf game?
3. What are your practice/actual course play ratio in golf?
4. Is ”being in the zone” a real thing? Poker/golf or whatever. Or is this only variance playing mind tricks?
1. all of the above. there are types of bets that are better for the guy getting strokes and types that are better for the guy giving stokes. there are courses that are better for some, the way the handicap holes come up in the round matters a lot because of presses. in general most big matches are some sort of team v team match because its very hard to hide your advantages for long heads up.
2. driving/putting. 20 years ago it was the opposite!
3. i practice almost every day, its basically my exercise routing. i play maybe 3 times a week maximum. thats all my bad back can handle
4. Id guess variance playing mind tricks for the most part but some of those mind tricks are likely self fulfilling prophesies because they make you more calm and confident which helps you play better for a little while. A person can absolutely play worse if they are nervous or upset so the opposite has to be true to some extent. that said you could just mathematically map a players likely hood to hit 30 great shots in a row and know exactly how often it would happen but the person it was happening to would think they were "in the zone" when it was just a streak happening that was guaranteed to happen sooner or later mathematically. when a person who always bets black on roulette hits 9 straight blacks are they "in the zone"? (they think they are)
Last edited by limon; 11-10-2023 at 12:19 PM.