Quiet eye training facilitates competitive putting performance in elite golfers

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2011, Pages

  Vine, Samuel J ^a   Moore, Lee J ^a   Wilson, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Gaze; Golf putting; Quiet eye; Visuomotor control

Indexed keywords

EID: 80755182552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00008     Document Type: Article

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