the old Union song, “Which side are you on?”1 To paraphrase Huck, you don’t know about David Lodge without you have read Small World, a wonderful and zany romp through the academic conference circuit. There we met Morris Zapp, a thinly disguised Stanley Fish, professor of English at Euphoria State, an even more thinly disguised Berkeley. I read these lines as a new and quite untenured professor:

This paper presents a new visual tracking technology that relies on the use of a global motion model to achieve robustness. We demonstrate its effectiveness for the purpose of retrieving the 2D spatio-temporal trajectory of a golf club head from ordinary video sequences of golf swings, so that information about club orientation, local speed and acceleration can also be obtained. We have integra...

This paper presents a comparative case study on the classification accuracy between 5 methods for golf putting performance analysis. In a previous work, a digital camera was used to capture 30 trials of 6 expert golf players. The detection of the horizontal position of the golf club was performed using a computer vision technique followed by the estimation algorithm Darwinian Particle Swarm Opt...

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2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) is a selective weedkiller which works by uncoupling oxidative phosphorylation and is in widespread use. It is known as "agent orange". A 65 year old man had acute hepatitis, thought to be caused by exposure to 2,4-D. The patient ingested 2,4-D as a result of habitual licking of his golf ball. Clinical and histological data together with a challenge test co...

In the endorsement business, golf has been the leading sports industry to have endorsers.[11] “The Fortunate 50”, a list of the 50 top earning American athletes in salary, endorsement and appearance fees compiled by Sports Illustrated, ranked Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson 1st and 2nd, respectively in their 2008 and 2009 rankings.[4] It is documented that Tiger Woods has consistently earned sig...

BACKGROUND Spectators at several hundred golf tournaments on six continents worldwide may gain health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) during their time at the event. This study aims to investigate spectators' reasons for attending and assess spectator physical activity (PA) (measured by step count). METHODS Spectators at the Paul Lawrie Matchplay event in Scotland (August 2016) were invite...

This study investigated the effectiveness of Practice in Mind or PIM training program on self-efficacy of the golfers when putting from the 6-feet distance. Recent research has suggested that golfers perceived putting from six feet more difficult than i.e., 3, 12 and 24 feet. Sixty-three male golfers with 1 to 3 year golf experiences participated in this study. Participants in PIM group and tra...