This is sick. But also i think that stuff like this is making us less human. Before tournaments good players take a book with then and their caddie and do this themself. A model takes all the fun and strategy out of it imo. Like if i suck at 7-9 irons but am good with my 4-6 irons this type of work doesnt take that into account. Also likee the optimal way to play a course isnt very fun. We play at a course where on the fourth hole we always play to the fairway to the left cause of all the trees. If a player were to use this they wouldnt have been able to come up with such a fun way to play the game
scoofy•59m ago
This is my project and after publishing it today, and while I'm very flattered that so many folks have read it already. Still, I've found myself pushing back against this 'unweaving the rainbow' narrative.
The maps, importantly, don't tell you how to play the hole. They just show where the hole is easier to play from, if you're already in that location. Whether or not you ought to attempt to reach those areas is the choice the player makes, and it's going to be different based on what the strategy the player uses is. I allude to this in later image of Talking Stick O'odham #2, which has the internal aiming system tuned up to be aggressive (say, for a skins game), and another image where it is tuned down for safety (say, for a derby or defending a lead in a stroke play tournament).
The maps really just kind of "show the idea" behind the strategic design. The best use case would be for helping golf course architects communicate the changes they want to make to potential memberships, who might be hesitant to change they don't understand.
It's very much not a system like Decade, or ones that companies like Arccos can provide to improve performance.
marysminefnuf•5h ago
scoofy•59m ago
The maps, importantly, don't tell you how to play the hole. They just show where the hole is easier to play from, if you're already in that location. Whether or not you ought to attempt to reach those areas is the choice the player makes, and it's going to be different based on what the strategy the player uses is. I allude to this in later image of Talking Stick O'odham #2, which has the internal aiming system tuned up to be aggressive (say, for a skins game), and another image where it is tuned down for safety (say, for a derby or defending a lead in a stroke play tournament).
The maps really just kind of "show the idea" behind the strategic design. The best use case would be for helping golf course architects communicate the changes they want to make to potential memberships, who might be hesitant to change they don't understand.
It's very much not a system like Decade, or ones that companies like Arccos can provide to improve performance.