Do professional golfers "choke"?

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 94, Issue 3 PART 2, 2002, Pages 1124-1130

  Clark III, Russell D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPORT;

ACHIEVEMENT; AROUSAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GOLF; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036593840     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.94.2.1124-1130     Document Type: Article

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