Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Improving putting performance is of significant interest to elite golfers and coaches as the potential for performance gains and lucrative financial rewards are high (Hellstrom, 2009).A critical element of golf putting is visual gaze control, specifically the Quiet Eye period (QE), the final fixation on a target before action execution (Vickers, 2007).QE has been found to be a predictor of expertise in a range of aiming sports such as, golf, basketball, shooting with experts having a longer duration of QE and earlier onset of QE (see Mann et al., 2007; Vickers, 2009 for reviews).To date, researchers examining visual gaze in golf putting have tended to use laboratory-based tasks focusing on relatively short, straight putts.The primary aim of this study was to examine QE in elite golfers using a more representative putting task in which task difficulty was systematically manipulated by both the length and lateral slope of the putts.
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2609148970