Re: Can't phrase this question in 1 line, but really want input. Please respond
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Date: February 27, 2014 08:27PM
Thanks Deb, that answered most of the question.
Gene-- thanks, but I wasn't really asking how to do it, I was asking more what you personally do and consider best, just wanting to see if there's a vox populi on the best method.
The point of me asking is I've always done it relatively, up to 4 holes. Anything more than that (not that it happens often) and I'd have to go with where I think the hole is at all times.
But anyway, of course everyone goes relative for one hole away, but more than that I was wondering what others do, and what they consider optimal. For me, again I usually go relative, but there's always a chance when I'm going more than one hole away that I'll be off, greater distance=bigger risk. I was playing a few days ago and about to make a risky 4-hole leap, and in a flash I realized "wait, I know exactly where that hole is right now, I don't have to aim for what I think 'four away' feels like."
So it made me wonder first of all, what method other people generally use, and second of all, what they consider the best place to abandon relativity. 4 holes? 3? 2? At what point is relative no longer the best way, if there's such a place?
My little a-ha moment just made me realize that I could be feeling my away around the harp in a completely different way than I'm used to, and maybe my own way (which I never questioned until now) isn't even ideal.