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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture => Topic started by: Ira Fishman on December 01, 2020, 04:09:18 PM
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If any of you are like me, when you have trouble sleeping (or getting back to sleep), instead of counting sheep, you play a course in your head. Is it your home course? A favorite course? Why?
Ira
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You are not alone in adopting this approach to troublesome sleep Ira. I’ve been using it for decades. Always ‘play’ a favourite away-from-home course. Never seem to get past the first few holes though! :)
Atb
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All the time, Ira! Very effective to displace all the other stuff that creeps into my brain in the middle of the night. I have two annual trips to courses that I've played many times and I play those two courses often, especially in the lead up to the trips. My home course works too, but there's less trouble there.
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This is also a useful strategy for occupying the mind during long runs. At a low point in a recent 24 hour race, I tried to get though all 4 courses at Bandon. It's fun to both "hit" the shot, and then "run" to the ball. Good memories from past trips also help brighten the mood. All in all, its a good way to get through a slog...
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Ira -
I "play" Golspie often that way. ;)
DT
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Ira,
I do this often, but this strategy of falling asleep fails on occasion.
When thinking of the courses I've played overseas it often leads to having to get up and look at them online.
:)
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I don't do this every day, but before I play an event I'll play the course in my mind before I fall asleep. Visualization is huge for success and if I fall asleep thinking about how I'll play each hole I tend to perform better
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Try not to think about golf, will end up having the standard dream where the rest of the group has hit but there is something blocking your backswing and whatever you do, you cant tee off.
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I love golf architecture and courses...but when i'm trying to sleep, pretty sure I'm thinking about something better.. ;)
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Ira -
I "play" Golspie often that way. ;)
DT
As do I even though I played Golspie only one time. The back nine at Pasatiempo as well. And all 18 at Hope Valley (but a course that I have played a lot).
Ira
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This is also a useful strategy for occupying the mind during long runs. At a low point in a recent 24 hour race, I tried to get though all 4 courses at Bandon. It's fun to both "hit" the shot, and then "run" to the ball. Good memories from past trips also help brighten the mood. All in all, its a good way to get through a slog...
I want to know how this post passed by without some kind of comment? 24 hour race ??? I can walk for three and 1/2 hours, but racing for 24 boggles the mind. . .
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"Try not to think about golf, will end up having the standard dream where the rest of the group has hit but there is something blocking your backswing and whatever you do, you cant tee off."
MKrohn -
Yes, I have had that dream (nightmare!) as well.
DT
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This is also a useful strategy for occupying the mind during long runs. At a low point in a recent 24 hour race, I tried to get though all 4 courses at Bandon. It's fun to both "hit" the shot, and then "run" to the ball. Good memories from past trips also help brighten the mood. All in all, its a good way to get through a slog...
I want to know how this post passed by without some kind of comment? 24 hour race ??? I can walk for three and 1/2 hours, but racing for 24 boggles the mind. . .
(sorry for the brief threadjack...) Fixed time races are very fun! In that world, 24 hours is actually "short" - there are 48hr, 72hr and 6 day races... google and youtube on the subject and you'll find some fascinating stuff.
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This is also a useful strategy for occupying the mind during long runs. At a low point in a recent 24 hour race, I tried to get though all 4 courses at Bandon. It's fun to both "hit" the shot, and then "run" to the ball. Good memories from past trips also help brighten the mood. All in all, its a good way to get through a slog...
I want to know how this post passed by without some kind of comment? 24 hour race ??? I can walk for three and 1/2 hours, but racing for 24 boggles the mind. . .
(sorry for the brief threadjack...) Fixed time races are very fun! In that world, 24 hours is actually "short" - there are 48hr, 72hr and 6 day races... google and youtube on the subject and you'll find some fascinating stuff.
Aaron,
My Sister lives in Leadville, CO and has assisted friends for the 24 hour run. That seemed crazy to me. More than 24 hours strikes me as really crazy.
Ira
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Ira - Leadville is beautiful, your sister is lucky to call it home! I've both run and crewed that race, it's one of my favorite weekends of the year (and who can resist Mt Massive Golf Course...). The multiday folks are a different breed. They always look like they are having an absolute blast, even when you know they aren't. Admirable.
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There is an old thread where a number of us have the can’t get room to swing dream. I am on a par 3, usually 16 and for some reason the tee is inside a small room. As for sleep, Lunesta has cured my getting to sleep problem.
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Ira - Leadville is beautiful, your sister is lucky to call it home! I've both run and crewed that race, it's one of my favorite weekends of the year (and who can resist Mt Massive Golf Course...). The multiday folks are a different breed. They always look like they are having an absolute blast, even when you know they aren't. Admirable.
Mt. Massive is probably the only course that I can be confident being able to hit a drive longer than 220. But who knows--I have not played it in several years.
Ira
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I was a notoriously bad sleeper when I was playing.
I went through the course I was playing on the nights I couldn’t sleep. Picturing lines off the tee in particular
On nights before rounds 2,3,4. I typically had an idea where the holes would be the next day so would focus on approaches and where not to miss
It was more visualizing than playing but was useful in quieting a very busy brain
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From the title I thought you were referring to watching almost all televised "bomb and gouge" professional golf tournaments these days, Ira. Talk about a sure fire cure for insomnia.
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I generally play my most recent round backwards. Usually asleep before the front nine.
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I generally play my most recent round backwards. Usually asleep before the front nine.
Good one, Jim.
Need to remember that.
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If any of you are like me, when you have trouble sleeping (or getting back to sleep), instead of counting sheep, you play a course in your head. Is it your home course? A favorite course? Why?
Ira
I do this all the time, but I usually replay my most recent round counting greens, fairways, putts, etc. Usually asleep by midway through the second count through.
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If any of you are like me, when you have trouble sleeping (or getting back to sleep), instead of counting sheep, you play a course in your head. Is it your home course? A favorite course? Why?
Ira
I play Augusta circa 1933 . . . works every time!
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From the title I thought you were referring to watching almost all televised "bomb and gouge" professional golf tournaments these days, Ira. Talk about a sure fire cure for insomnia.
Ditto for me!
Never ever ever thought of counting golf shots to get to sleep... I prefer putting on the headphones and listening to Darkstar version off Live Dead....
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I played the Old Course in my mind, when they stuck me in the MRI tube. Kept me from losing my sh!t in that cylinder.
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I'll play my favorite courses on the driving range, and my latest round before going to sleep. If I played well, I replay shot for shot, and rarely get past the 6th hole before I'm asleep. Bad rounds I play all 18, correcting errors in judgement, then start over with the latest good round. Again, can't get past about 6th hole of the good round. Happy to hear this is a common sleep aid!
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If I played that day, I replay my round twice - once by recalling the shots I played, the other by figuring out what I should have shot if I hadn’t hit stupid shots. I figure I’m entitled to every five footer I missed and every twenty footer I made. No three putts. And I should never miss a green from 150 yards in. All bad tee shots except lost balls count. Any lost ball or OB should have been a bogey.
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Ah, ah Ira,
Rather than having trouble sleeping and then using imaginary golf as a sedative I find I have trouble golfing as I seem to go to sleep on every second shot. A nightmare!
Cheers Colin
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I've tried this but once I've birdied the first five holes I get too tense from the pressure to sleep.
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From the title I thought you were referring to watching almost all televised "bomb and gouge" professional golf tournaments these days, Ira. Talk about a sure fire cure for insomnia.
Ditto for me!
Never ever ever thought of counting golf shots to get to sleep... I prefer putting on the headphones and listening to Darkstar version off Live Dead....
Love it. Any music usually works but nothing beats the Dead.
I got the Calm app on my phone (free for a year with my Amex card). They have sleep stories where someone is telling a 20-30 minute story, I think I’ve only gotten all the way through one without falling asleep. I even use them when I wake up I’m the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep. It takes my kind off my own ugly thoughts like my last round.
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I got the Calm app on my phone (free for a year with my Amex card). They have sleep stories where someone is telling a 20-30 minute story, I think I’ve only gotten all the way through one without falling asleep. I even use them when I wake up I’m the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep. It takes my kind off my own ugly thoughts like my last round.
That has been my strategy for the last couple of years. It works for me 98% of the time.
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If any of you are like me, when you have trouble sleeping (or getting back to sleep), instead of counting sheep, you play a course in your head. Is it your home course? A favorite course? Why?
Ira
Yup, works like a charm.
Usually “play” my home course or a recent one. Rarely get to the back nine.
I usually have hit each shot to the ideal position. For whatever psychological reason, I never putt.
Like Colin, my real problem is not sleeping at night but during the day on the course over the occasional shot, usually a putt.