Science and Golf IV : proceedings of the World Scientific Congress of Golf /
Science and Golf IV : proceedings of the World Scientific Congress of Golf /
edited by Eric Thain.
- xvii, 855 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of contributors -- Preface -- A spatial model of the rigid-body club swing -- Biomechanical analysis of professional golfer's swing: Hidemichi Tanaka -- Age, centre of pressure and clubhead speed in golf -- Effect of muscle strength and flexibility on club-head speed in older golfers -- Maximal static contraction strengthening exercises and driving distance -- Bone mass, bone mineral density and muscle mass in professional golfers -- Strength training and injury prevention for professional golfers -- Comparison of spine motion in elite golfers with and without low back pain -- Musculoskeletal injury questionnaire for senior golfers -- A critical examination of motor control and transfer issues in putting -- Experimental study of effects of distance, slope and break on putting performance for active golfers -- Is it a pendulum, is it a plane? - mathematical models of putting -- Putting alignment in golf: a laser based evaluation -- Eye dominance, visibility and putting performance -- Alignment variations among junior golfers -- The effects of outcome imagery on golf putting performance -- The efficacy of video feedback for learning the golf swing -- The role of metaphor in expert golf instruction -- Golf their way: student perceptions of success in golf instruction -- An analysis of an effective golf teacher education program: The LPGA National Education Program -- Why does traditional training fail to optimize playing performance? -- Performance and practice of elite women European tour golfers during a pressure and a non-pressure putting simulation -- Practice for competition in women professional golfers -- Yielding to internal performance stress? - the yips in golf: a review with a commentary from a player's perspective -- The golfer-caddie partnership: an exploratory investigation into the role of the caddie -- A general principle in golf -- Team selection by portfolio optimization -- Compression by any other name -- Effects of dimple design on the aerodynamic performance of a golf ball -- A generally applicable model for the aerodynamic behavior of golf balls -- 3-Dimensional trajectory analysis of golf balls -- The vibrational mode structure of a golf ball -- On the acoustic signature of golf ball impact -- Measurement of the behavior of a golf club during a golf swing -- On measuring the flexural rigidity distribution of golf shafts -- Characteristic spring constants for golf club heads -- Influence of characteristics of golf club head on release velocity and spin velocity of golf ball after impact -- Optimization of golf club face for enhancement of coefficient of restitution -- High performance driver design: Benefits for all golfers -- Experiments in golf ball - barrier impacts -- Development and use of one-dimensional models of a golf ball -- Clubhead acceleration patterns during impact with the golf ball -- Mapping clubhead to ball impact and estimating trajectory -- Is the impact of a golf ball Hertzian? -- An extended model of oblique impact of elastic ball -- Experimental determination of apparent contact time in normal impact -- An investigation into the effect of the roll of a golf ball using the C-Groove putter -- Evaluation of new cultivars for putting greens in the U.S. -- Root distribution and ET as related to drought avoidance in Poa pratensis -- Intraspecies wear stress tolerance investigations with Poa Pratensis -- Transformation of herbicide tolerant and disease resistant Creeping Bentgrass -- Relative performance of bentgrass species and cultivars during golf buggy wear -- Physiological responses of Agrostis palustris L. to lowering day or night soil temperatures under heat stress -- Effects of syringing on summer stress performance of creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stoloniferal L) -- Reduced rate preemergence herbicide programs for Digitaria Ischaemum control in Bermudagrass turf -- Conventional and innovative methods for Fairy Ring management in turfgrass -- Competition between Agrostis Stolonifera and Poa Annua populations in turfgrass communities -- The use of plant growth regulators to reduce Poa annua ssp. annua in bentgrass putting greens -- Growth retardants alter expansive growth and establishment of Cynodon sp. -- Potassium nutrition effects on Agrostis stolonifera L. wear stress tolerance -- Sulphur level and timing effects on Agrostis palustris injury and soil pH -- Dislodgeable residues of 2,4-D and implications for golfer exposure -- Effect of thatch on pesticide model leaching predictions -- Diurnal and temporal variations of green speed -- Can golf courses enhance local biodiversity? -- Heathland invertebrates on golf courses: is habitat quality important -- An improved apparatus and technique for measuring green-speed -- Golf participation growth feasibility assessment: Identifying the growth potential for golf participation and golf related spending -- Golf potential in Germany in the international context -- Complementing touristic development with popular recreation: a challenge for the future of golf in Spain -- An analysis of alternative golf facilities and their relation to traditional golf -- An examination of fan motivation among men and women spectators attending an LPGA tour event -- Economic contribution of golf to the UK economy -- Appraising golf developments in the era of 'contested countrysides' -- Understanding nostalgia sport tourism: the Old Course as "mecca" and a "museum without walls" -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75.
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Golf--Congresses
Sports sciences--Congresses
796.352015
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of contributors -- Preface -- A spatial model of the rigid-body club swing -- Biomechanical analysis of professional golfer's swing: Hidemichi Tanaka -- Age, centre of pressure and clubhead speed in golf -- Effect of muscle strength and flexibility on club-head speed in older golfers -- Maximal static contraction strengthening exercises and driving distance -- Bone mass, bone mineral density and muscle mass in professional golfers -- Strength training and injury prevention for professional golfers -- Comparison of spine motion in elite golfers with and without low back pain -- Musculoskeletal injury questionnaire for senior golfers -- A critical examination of motor control and transfer issues in putting -- Experimental study of effects of distance, slope and break on putting performance for active golfers -- Is it a pendulum, is it a plane? - mathematical models of putting -- Putting alignment in golf: a laser based evaluation -- Eye dominance, visibility and putting performance -- Alignment variations among junior golfers -- The effects of outcome imagery on golf putting performance -- The efficacy of video feedback for learning the golf swing -- The role of metaphor in expert golf instruction -- Golf their way: student perceptions of success in golf instruction -- An analysis of an effective golf teacher education program: The LPGA National Education Program -- Why does traditional training fail to optimize playing performance? -- Performance and practice of elite women European tour golfers during a pressure and a non-pressure putting simulation -- Practice for competition in women professional golfers -- Yielding to internal performance stress? - the yips in golf: a review with a commentary from a player's perspective -- The golfer-caddie partnership: an exploratory investigation into the role of the caddie -- A general principle in golf -- Team selection by portfolio optimization -- Compression by any other name -- Effects of dimple design on the aerodynamic performance of a golf ball -- A generally applicable model for the aerodynamic behavior of golf balls -- 3-Dimensional trajectory analysis of golf balls -- The vibrational mode structure of a golf ball -- On the acoustic signature of golf ball impact -- Measurement of the behavior of a golf club during a golf swing -- On measuring the flexural rigidity distribution of golf shafts -- Characteristic spring constants for golf club heads -- Influence of characteristics of golf club head on release velocity and spin velocity of golf ball after impact -- Optimization of golf club face for enhancement of coefficient of restitution -- High performance driver design: Benefits for all golfers -- Experiments in golf ball - barrier impacts -- Development and use of one-dimensional models of a golf ball -- Clubhead acceleration patterns during impact with the golf ball -- Mapping clubhead to ball impact and estimating trajectory -- Is the impact of a golf ball Hertzian? -- An extended model of oblique impact of elastic ball -- Experimental determination of apparent contact time in normal impact -- An investigation into the effect of the roll of a golf ball using the C-Groove putter -- Evaluation of new cultivars for putting greens in the U.S. -- Root distribution and ET as related to drought avoidance in Poa pratensis -- Intraspecies wear stress tolerance investigations with Poa Pratensis -- Transformation of herbicide tolerant and disease resistant Creeping Bentgrass -- Relative performance of bentgrass species and cultivars during golf buggy wear -- Physiological responses of Agrostis palustris L. to lowering day or night soil temperatures under heat stress -- Effects of syringing on summer stress performance of creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stoloniferal L) -- Reduced rate preemergence herbicide programs for Digitaria Ischaemum control in Bermudagrass turf -- Conventional and innovative methods for Fairy Ring management in turfgrass -- Competition between Agrostis Stolonifera and Poa Annua populations in turfgrass communities -- The use of plant growth regulators to reduce Poa annua ssp. annua in bentgrass putting greens -- Growth retardants alter expansive growth and establishment of Cynodon sp. -- Potassium nutrition effects on Agrostis stolonifera L. wear stress tolerance -- Sulphur level and timing effects on Agrostis palustris injury and soil pH -- Dislodgeable residues of 2,4-D and implications for golfer exposure -- Effect of thatch on pesticide model leaching predictions -- Diurnal and temporal variations of green speed -- Can golf courses enhance local biodiversity? -- Heathland invertebrates on golf courses: is habitat quality important -- An improved apparatus and technique for measuring green-speed -- Golf participation growth feasibility assessment: Identifying the growth potential for golf participation and golf related spending -- Golf potential in Germany in the international context -- Complementing touristic development with popular recreation: a challenge for the future of golf in Spain -- An analysis of alternative golf facilities and their relation to traditional golf -- An examination of fan motivation among men and women spectators attending an LPGA tour event -- Economic contribution of golf to the UK economy -- Appraising golf developments in the era of 'contested countrysides' -- Understanding nostalgia sport tourism: the Old Course as "mecca" and a "museum without walls" -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75.
0415283027 9780415283021
Golf--Congresses
Sports sciences--Congresses
796.352015