The purpose of the present study was to investigate observational learning that can be applied to learning golf putting skill by identifying efficient visual cues strategies for perception and cognition by analyzing the effects of observational learni...
The purpose of the present study was to investigate observational learning that can be applied to learning golf putting skill by identifying efficient visual cues strategies for perception and cognition by analyzing the effects of observational learning with visual cues on the efficiency of learning golf putting. subjects were 40 male college students who were randomly assigned to observation group, movement element cue group, spatial cue group, and control group. subjects putted 10 times from 3 m during pretest. During the training interventions, subjects in each group practiced putting 20 times from the same distance as the pretest everyday for four dats in addition to interventions by group. A posttest and a delayed posttest were conducted one and three days after the termination of training, respectively. In the movement analysis of golf putting by phase, which includes address, backswing, downswing, follow-through, and total performance scores, the movement element group showed greater improvement in movement scores compared to other groups as the experiment progressed from pretest to posttest and delayed posttest. The spatial cue group, however, showed gradual improvement in movement scores in the address phase as the experiment progressed. In the radius error and variable error analysis, the movement element group showed reduction in errors as the experiment progressed from pretest to posttest and delayed posttest. The consistency analysis of the stroke path showed that the path became more efficient after the experimental interventions for the movement element group compared to other groups. The movement element group and the spatial cue group showed significantly better accuracy and consistency compared to other groups as the experiment progressed from pretest to posttest and delayed posttest in the backswing rhythm analysis. The results suggest that observational learning with visual cues have efficient influence on golf putting preformance and help to improve putting skills.