After a round do you or can you replay every shot ?

I can remember every shot very clearly for the remainder of the day.
If it was a particularly memorable round (for whatever reason), I will remember some shots until my next game.
Then I have to let it go. Otherwise I will get the shots from that round mixed up with the new round.

There are a tiny few shots that are imprinted and never forgotten.
The putt for my first par in 1970 and the preceding chip.
The 3 hole-in-ones.
The final putt for a 143 winning score in 2019 club championship.

This year I can remember holing a bunker shot for a birdie 2 on the 4th hole and same thing on the 16th hole. And holing a 42° iron full shot for an eagle 2 on the 14th.
All worth pro-shop credit in comps.
But they will most likely be forgotten and replaced with summat else next year - I hope.
 
I have a kind of photographic memory and can remember every shot from about the last couple of weeks rounds, It amazes me how most of my playing partners can't remember the hole they have just played, especially when they say that's a 5, when I know they have had 6 shots, and then look puzzled when I ask them to check their shots for the hole
 
One of the hardest things in golf is the ability to, almost instantly, forget the bad shots.
It doesn't really matter, to me anyway, if the good ones are remembered...just forget the bad ones..
I'm quite good at this so, at the end of the round, I can often rattle off the good but not the bad.
 
I can usually remember every shot from my last round until it is “overwritten” by the next one. I can remember some shots from years ago. Oldest is probably a stiffed 6 iron to the old 5th green at Dewsbury back in 1986/1987. Also, that was the first round that I used the Vardon grip. I used a baseball grip prior to that. I’ve used the Vardon grip ever since.
 
I clicked on this topic to say exactly the same thing - until maybe a year ago, I could definitely remember every single shot. Now, I quite commonly cannot remember a couple per round at my home course (always certain putts and e.g. whether I two or three putted, just have to go with what the scorecard says). The cognitive decline possibility occurs to me each time - I'm not yet convinced whether it's that or just that my approach to golf is different (a different level of intensity/meaning for me given I've been playing better/getting back to my best since around the same point in time where this started happening).

When playing a new course, there's many shots I can't remember, but that doesn't concern me as much as I feel it's justified by not having the reference points in my memory/not being able to remember certain holes at all.
You've hit the nail on the head for me..... Have always went through my 'highlight reel' as me and PPs call it when lying in bed at night before nodding off..
Just can't quite remember them all now.. Invariably it's the putts I can't quite recall...
Interesting to see a lot of people are similar..
 
Of my most recent round, yes, I can usually remember every shot that I played. Might refer to the scorecard to trigger the memory on some holes though.

My mate can't even remember which hole is which of our home course that we've played at for five years. I'll say something about the 14th and he'll go "14th... 🤔... oh yeah the par 3". 😂
 
Yes, I remember every shot from my last round. Not only that, I can usually remember the lie for the shot, the yardage to the pin and what my strike quality was like.
 
Worse than the player who recounts every shot, is the woulda, coulda, shoulda player who scores badly but could have got the course record if only this or that happened (or didn’t happen) 😂
 
Yes, I remember every shot from my last round. Not only that, I can usually remember the lie for the shot, the yardage to the pin and what my strike quality was like.

Are you my regular BB partner? 😉

He’s the same. He remembers yardages, clubs, the lot, for every shot.
 
I can't think of any reason why I would want to.

Plenty of other stuff to occupy my mind.
 
I normally sit at home after a round and recall each shot.
I did this once after playing the first round of the club champs. I realised that I'd missed a shot out on one hole so called the club to disqualify me from the second day as I'd entered a wrong score.
 
I can dwell on the dross with the best of them. I will dwell on today's shocker until I play again on Tuesday, constantly picking apart what was bad, looking for reassurance/solutions.

Conversely, yesterdays very good round, while I can recall every shot, doesn't get a moments thought.
 
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