RESEARCH: Virtual Reality’s Influence on Performance

We have a really interesting episode; we’re talking to Dr. David Harris, who does a lot of research in the world of VR. He’s done some research on quiet eye using VR equipment and experimented with using VR as a way to practice. There are some really interesting findings from their study: what they were […]

Golf Data Chat: COVID-19, the distance debate, and more

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Arccos Golf has collected over 200 million golf shots and has 300,000 active users logging their rounds. We chat with their CEO and co-founder, Sal Syed about what they’re seeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and talk about driver distance over the last 3 years.

Should you TRY to hit it farther? or TRY to hit it straighter?

We’ve all stood up on the tee-box of a hole with a tree lined fairway and tried to just hit that accurate controlled drive. On the opposite end of the spectrum you have a wide open fairway and it’s “bombs away”. THE QUESTION – do those mindsets coming into those tee shots help or hurt […]

2016 World Scientific Congress of Golf Review

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Put a bunch of academics, researchers, engineers, and golf coaches at a University presenting research on golf and what do you get? The World Scientific Congress of Golf held this year at the home of golf in St Andrews, Scotland.

Interpreting Golf Research with Trillium Rose

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Trillium Rose is the head director of instruction of Woodmont Country Club. She also has a Master’s Degree in Motor Learning and Control, which has “really helped shape my perspective and how I approach people’s learning, how they change their habits, and how improve their habits or learn new ones.” Today we’re talking about what golf […]