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I had a similar experience water skiing a few years back. At the time, I hadn’t skiied for probably 5 years. I absolutely could not remember which foot went forward on the ski, and which went back. I probably skiied 30 or 40 times a year all the while I was in high school, and continued to ski often into my 30’s. Took 5 years off, and couldn’t remember which foot to put the ski on. Neither way felt right. Very strange! I think maybe my brain was confusing the feelings and responses of water skiing with those of skate-boarding, but I’m not sure. In the end, I just tried it each way. One worked, one didn’t. May your next round be your best round. Dave Holo RSG Roll Call: http://u1.netgate.net/~kirby34/rsg/holod.htm
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey Matt… since you’re a bowler, maybe you can relate to this. I’ve never had anything equivalent to this happen to me in golf, but many years ago when I was still bowling all the time, it happened to me once on the lanes. My now ex-wife had just signed us up at a health club, and after a couple of workouts, I had league night. Went to the lanes and from the very first shot that evening, I couldn’t remember which foot to start my approach with. Very strange. Like a wire had come loose in my brain. And the fact that both feet felt like they had 500-lb. cement blocks on ‘em didn’t help. Randy Today while playing 18 I had the oddest thin happen to me. it was the 14th hole, I was just about to hit a putt when I stopped, backed away looked at my hand and couldn’t remember how I hold the putter! It just didn’t feel right. I backed up further from the ball and regripped my putter about 7 times. The other guys must’ve been wondering if my putter and I needed a room! After I felt that this was ‘possibly’ my normal grip I stepped back up to the ball and put my 3′ into the hole. I pared the previous hole, pared that hole and after that putt I pared the last 4 without another thought of my putting grip. What happened? Any idea’s? similar stories?
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Today while playing 18 I had the oddest thin happen to me. it was the 14th hole, I was just about to hit a putt when I stopped, backed away looked at my hand and couldn’t remember how I hold the putter! It just didn’t feel right. I backed up further from the ball and regripped my putter about 7 times. The other guys must’ve been wondering if my putter and I needed a room! After I felt that this was ‘possibly’ my normal grip I stepped back up to the ball and put my 3′ into the hole. I pared the previous hole, pared that hole and after that putt I pared the last 4 without another thought of my putting grip. What happened? Any idea’s? similar stories?
One word: Aliens. It’s commonly known that humans only use about 10% of their brain capacity. The aliens have seized this opportunity and are using the other 90% for their own nefarious reasons. Occasionally the calculations that are being done in the alien-partition of your brain ’spill over’ into the human side and you have a brain cramp. Be glad that your brain’s operating system was not written by Microsoft, otherwise this spill-over would result in the Blue Screen of Death and require a hard-reboot. — –dph. (preferred email: dhayes AT iname DOT com) Before you buy.
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never had anything like that happen on the course but it happens to me all the time at home with the remote. Whenever we can’t find the remote the first place my wife looks is in the refrigerator! We lost it for three days once, I found it on my desk at work, no idea how it got there….LOL I guess you made it home ok 
Anyway, don’t worry about it … in fact I predict you’ll forget it ever happened! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Today while playing 18 I had the oddest thin happen to me. it was the 14th hole, I was just about to hit a putt when I stopped, backed away looked at my hand and couldn’t remember how I hold the putter! It just didn’t feel right. I backed up further from the ball and regripped my putter about 7 times. The other guys must’ve been wondering if my putter and I needed a room! After I felt that this was ‘possibly’ my normal grip I stepped back up to the ball and put my 3′ into the hole. I pared the previous hole, pared that hole and after that putt I pared the last 4 without another thought of my putting grip. What happened? Any idea’s? similar stories?
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My now ex-wife had just signed us up at a health club, and after a couple of workouts, I had league night. Went to the lanes and from the very first shot that evening, I couldn’t remember which foot to start my approach with. Very strange. Like a wire had come loose in my brain. And the fact that both feet felt like they had 500-lb. cement blocks on ‘em didn’t help.
Well, you see what happens to people who try to get in shape, Randy. Too much exercise obviously causes brain cramps. (g) We golfers have one advantage – our clubs have faces on them – so we don’t have to remember if we’re supposed to swing right-handed or left-handed. — Don Porter Newspaper Reporter & Webmaster Web Page: http://www.datacruz.com/~dporter
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If you are over 40 years old, that would explain a lot. I left my dogs outside in the rain for an hour or so a few days ago because I honestly thought they were inside … ooops, sorry ’bout that guys. Arnie –
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That can’t be good Not to be insensitive, but, you asked that same question yesterday, and got many, many replies.
They were in that thread about the hole-in-one you scored earlier in the week, Jag. Don’t tell us you’ve forgotten it already! — Don Porter Newspaper Reporter & Webmaster Web Page: http://www.datacruz.com/~dporter
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That can’t be good
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Matt, Not to be insensitive, but, you asked that same question yesterday, and got many, many replies. — ChiliDipper RSG Roll Call: http://u1.netgate.net/~kirby34/rsg/toyg.htm
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Friday night I think I did that. I started my approach something felt odd kinda like a trip and then I released the ball. I still don’t know if its because I started with the wrong foot took an extra step or I started with the right foot took a double step. BTW it was a perfect pocket strike, one of the few pocket hits that didn’t leave a solid 10.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey Matt… since you’re a bowler, maybe you can relate to this. I’ve never had anything equivalent to this happen to me in golf, but many years ago when I was still bowling all the time, it happened to me once on the lanes. My now ex-wife had just signed us up at a health club, and after a couple of workouts, I had league night. Went to the lanes and from the very first shot that evening, I couldn’t remember which foot to start my approach with. Very strange. Like a wire had come loose in my brain. And the fact that both feet felt like they had 500-lb. cement blocks on ‘em didn’t help. Randy
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Today while playing 18 I had the oddest thin happen to me. it was the 14th hole, I was just about to hit a putt when I stopped, backed away looked at my hand and couldn’t remember how I hold the putter! <clip
Happened to me once. I’m sure that there’s a name for it, something like deja phew! I just mark it up as a senior moment. "Someone likes every shot" bk
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… couldn’t remember how I hold the putter! It just didn’t feel right. Matt, Not to be insensitive, but, you asked that same question yesterday, and got many, many replies.
Chili: Not to be insensitive, but I saw your reply yesterday, and the day before, to such a question…but it had never been asked. "Someone likes every shot" bk
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(snipped) Chili: Not to be insensitive, but I saw your reply yesterday, and the day before, to such a question…but it had never been asked. "Someone likes every shot" bk
Uhh, what question? — ChiliDipper RSG Roll Call: http://u1.netgate.net/~kirby34/rsg/toyg.htm
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What was the question again? Randy
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – (snipped) Chili: Not to be insensitive, but I saw your reply yesterday, and the day before, to such a question…but it had never been asked. "Someone likes every shot" bk Uhh, what question? — ChiliDipper RSG Roll Call: http://u1.netgate.net/~kirby34/rsg/toyg.htm
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Hey Matt… since you’re a bowler, maybe you can relate to this. I’ve never had anything equivalent to this happen to me in golf, but many years ago when I was still bowling all the time, it happened to me once on the lanes. My now ex-wife had just signed us up at a health club, and after a couple of workouts, I had league night. Went to the lanes and from the very first shot that evening, I couldn’t remember which foot to start my approach with. Very strange. Like a wire had come loose in my brain. And the fact that both feet felt like they had 500-lb. cement blocks on ‘em didn’t help. Randy – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Today while playing 18 I had the oddest thin happen to me. it was the 14th hole, I was just about to hit a putt when I stopped, backed away looked at my hand and couldn’t remember how I hold the putter! It just didn’t feel right. I backed up further from the ball and regripped my putter about 7 times. The other guys must’ve been wondering if my putter and I needed a room! After I felt that this was ‘possibly’ my normal grip I stepped back up to the ball and put my 3′ into the hole. I pared the previous hole, pared that hole and after that putt I pared the last 4 without another thought of my putting grip. What happened? Any idea’s? similar stories?
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Today while playing 18 I had the oddest thin happen to me. it was the 14th
hole, I was just about to hit a putt when I stopped, backed away looked at my hand and couldn’t remember how I hold the putter! It just didn’t feel right. I backed up further from the ball and regripped my putter about 7 times. The other guys must’ve been wondering if my putter and I needed a room! After I felt that this was ‘possibly’ my normal grip I stepped back up to the ball and put my 3′ into the hole. I pared the previous hole, pared that hole and after that putt I pared the last 4 without another thought of my putting grip. What happened? Any idea’s? similar stories? Matt, Not to be insensitive, but, you asked that same question yesterday, and got many, many replies. — ChiliDipper RSG Roll Call: http://u1.netgate.net/~kirby34/rsg/toyg.htm
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Today while playing 18 I had the oddest thin happen to me. it was the 14th hole, I was just about to hit a putt when I stopped, backed away looked at my hand and couldn’t remember how I hold the putter! It just didn’t feel right. I backed up further from the ball and regripped my putter about 7 times. The other guys must’ve been wondering if my putter and I needed a room! After I felt that this was ‘possibly’ my normal grip I stepped back up to the ball and put my 3′ into the hole. I pared the previous hole, pared that hole and after that putt I pared the last 4 without another thought of my putting grip. What happened? Any idea’s? similar stories?
Matt, Common occurrence in my household. "Where’s my glasses?" "You are wearing them." Yesterday at the first tee (very big) I teed up outside the nearest marker but not only that, it was the wrong colour marker. Then a couple of holes later I forgot where I had hit my ball!! But the automatic things were OK. I took only seven putts in the first six holes to be one under. And if you are good at reading between the lines you can see what the rest of my game was like!! Regards — Pat Williams Work is a pastime for those who have not discovered the game of golf.
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Today while playing 18 I had the oddest thin happen to me. it was the 14th hole, I was just about to hit a putt when I stopped, backed away looked at my hand and couldn’t remember how I hold the putter! It just didn’t feel right. I backed up further from the ball and regripped my putter about 7 times. The other guys must’ve been wondering if my putter and I needed a room! After I felt that this was ‘possibly’ my normal grip I stepped back up to the ball and put my 3′ into the hole. I pared the previous hole, pared that hole and after that putt I pared the last 4 without another thought of my putting grip. What happened? Any idea’s? similar stories?
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Happens to me so frequently, that I don’t think i have a "normal" putting grip, or stance, or ball position, or swing, for that matter. It was about 5 years ago, I had the same thing happen – couldn’t get comfortable holding the putter – didn’t know what was wrong – it just didn’t "feel" right. So I started to adjust this, then adjust that, until I am completey confused as to what do with the infernal club. I do hope you are not sliding down the slippery path that my putting has taken, although of late there seems to have been some improvement. A Ping Anser, recently purchased from Pat Inglis, has helped – have no idea why – but it did. Mind you, I played with my Odyssey yesterday and putted very well with it indeed ( for my standard!!) I hope your episode will be a passing thing, a one time happening. I don’t suppose the above will make you feel any better – but you did ask!! ;-) David — RSG Roll Call http://u1.netgate.net/~kirby34/rsg/sneddond.htm – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Today while playing 18 I had the oddest thin happen to me. it was the 14th hole, I was just about to hit a putt when I stopped, backed away looked at my hand and couldn’t remember how I hold the putter! It just didn’t feel right. I backed up further from the ball and regripped my putter about 7 times. The other guys must’ve been wondering if my putter and I needed a room! After I felt that this was ‘possibly’ my normal grip I stepped back up to the ball and put my 3′ into the hole. I pared the previous hole, pared that hole and after that putt I pared the last 4 without another thought of my putting grip. What happened? Any idea’s? similar stories?