Not many threads today so I thought about this.
Lots of long term golf gamers here - something I already take pride in PP about, I mention it quite a lot: 'oh there's a lot of hardcore golf gamers there who know a hell of a lot more than me' - and I am sure you all have your own style of play with all those subtle nuances, so I'll start with myself:
I'm the ultimate machine player!! Nick Faldo eat your heart out, Seve shake your head in disdain - if it can't be measured, analyzed and modeled I won't take the shot basically, perhaps it's a short fall being 100% technical because you do forfeit that ability to learn by vision, that cognition thing and I think all the very best players have developed that rigorously.
But i'm not too concerned about being the best player more enjoying myself to the max and I can only get that when I am weighed down in tables, sheets, notes, predictors - you name it, I even use drawing aids to measure the angle of the wind arrow to within degrees of accuracy :-)) no doubt this takes a long time and my game is hyper slow - not suited to multiplayer you will almost always find me playing alone and I cut a lonely figure strolling around the greens in solitary, but that's a delicious kind of lonely - me, space and time - and I wouldn't have it any other way.... that's not to say I won't play a group match now and again but for the bulk of it, it represents an almost selfish challenge for me. My game is most people dread - they say lighten up, that's awfully dull what you are doing there, my response is that I see no point in doing anything unless there is a properly fully defined reason for it - each to their own :-)
I also have a habit of trawling the internet and finding birds-eye course plans for the real life courses, I just like to know exactly where i am in relation to everything else and it's kinda cute to know that little outcrop of greenery I can see yonder is nothing more than the fairway of hole number 15 working itself backwards and towards the lake leading up to the clubhouse.....
In my opinion golf was meant to be lonely, after all it evolved as a recreation out of empty marriages and a love that died a long time ago, a marriage substitute (controversial, yes I usually am), and so it draws me towards it because I also find some solace and escape in it, just as I do with outer space 
Thanks.
What kind of player are you - techie, feel, just for a laugh or just plain lucky??
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