Move your head, hurt your golf game
By Nathan Seppa
From Washington, D.C., at a seminar on Research to Prevent Blindness
Biomechanics experts have found that certain golfing grips can lessen head and eye movement during putts. Limiting these motions improves one’s game, suggests George K. Hung, a biomedical engineer at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J.
Hung and his colleagues tested seven right-handed novice golfers as they putted from 3 and 9 feet. The volunteers wore a helmet with sensors that relayed head and eye movements to a computer. The scientists also monitored body position. From each distance, the volunteers putted 20 balls with a conventional grip (right hand below left), 20 cross-handed (right hand above the left), and 20 with the right hand only.