Timing and Focus Training for Golfers

Family Achievement Center is excited to offer Interactive Metronome^®, a revolutionary new program that decreases golf scores, therefore, improving your golf game!

Interactive Metronome^® has been used by many PGA professionals, including Vijay Singh and Glen Day (Golf Digest - February 2003). This program works on a golfer's timing and focus and has been shown to improve shot accuracy.

The program focuses on neural pathways in the brain to elicit improvement in areas of:

• Rhythm
• Timing
• Focus
• Motor Planning
• Sequencing
• Attention
• Coordination

The program employs a musical tone that the individual follows along with in an attempt to synchronize hand or foot motor movements to the beat. These motor movements are recorded by the software program and compared to the beat to provide a comprehensive score and measure progress.

Why wait till the end of summer to improve your game. See what other positive changes might occur in your life. Call us now to learn more about this revolutionary program or to schedule your Interactive Metronome^® visits.

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Training in Timing Improves Accuracy in Golf

The Journal of General Psychology, 129(1), 77-96. Libkuman, T.M., Hajime, O., & Steger, N. (2002).

Abstract: In this experiment, the authors investigated the influence of training in timing on performance accuracy in golf. During pre- and posttesting, the 40 participants hit golf balls with 4 different clubs in a golf course simulator. The dependent measure was the distance in feet that the ball ended from the target. Between pre- and posttest, participants in the experimental condition received 10 hr of time training with an instrument that was designed to train participants to tap their hands and feet in synchrony with target sounds. The participants in the control condition read literature about how to improve their golf swing. The results indicated that the participants in the experimental condition significantly improved their accuracy relative to the participants in the control condition, who did not show any improvement. We concluded that training in timing leads to improvement in accuracy, and that our results have implications for training in golf as well as other complex motor activities.

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Improved Motor-Timing: Effects of Synchronized Metronome Training on Golf Shot Accuracy

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 8, 648-656. Marius Sommer, M., Ronnqvist, L. (2009).

Abstract: This study investigates the effect of synchronized metronome training (SMT) on motor timing and how this training might affect golf shot accuracy. Twenty-six experienced male golfers participated (mean age 27 years; mean golf handicap 12.6) in this study. Preand post-test investigations of golf shots made by three different clubs were conducted by use of a golf simulator. The golfers were randomized into two groups: a SMT group and a Control group. After the pre-test, the golfers in the SMT group completed a 4-week SMT program designed to improve their motor timing, the golfers in the Control group were merely training their golf-swings during the same time period. No differences between the two groups were found from the pre-test outcomes, either for motor timing scores or for golf shot accuracy. However, the post-test results after the 4-weeks SMT showed evident motor timing improvements. Additionally, significant improvements for golf shot accuracy were found for the SMT group and with less variability in their performance. No such improvements were found for the golfers in the Control group. As with previous studies that used a SMT program, this study?s results provide further evidence that motor timing can be improved by SMT and that such timing improvement also improves golf accuracy.

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