ONLY the best golfers consistently putt well, and researchers in France and
Scotland think they have discovered why.
Cathy Craig at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille and her
colleagues analysed the swings of 10 golfers as they attempted to complete putts
of between 1 and 4 metres. They found that golfers generate an internal model of
how quickly they must move the club to hit the ball with the force neede to get
it to the hole. As they putt, they continuously compare their motion to this
model (Nature, vol 405, p 295).
But temporal information created…
