Customization in the Golf Industry

Over the past 5 years, the United States Golf Association (USGA), has imposed tough restrictions on golf club design, limiting the size, spring effect and now grooves in an attempt to rein in what they perceive as game altering technology. The argument for or against their position can be saved for another day, but the result of these limits has been making waves in the golf industry. If you ask the CEOs of the top 5 golf companies, "Has the USGA's restrictions on golf club design helped or hurt your business?" invariably, the answer would be "hurt". But to others the new regulations do not hurt, in fact, they help.

In the first 1/2 of this decade, Golf manufacturers worked hard to keep up with the advances in golf technology. It seemed that every year there was a new manufacturing barrier to be crossed, a new material that had to be integrated and the performance bar was ever being drawn farther and farther down the fairway. Now that the pace of technology in the golf industry has slowed somewhat, it is easier to manufacture equipment that performs as well or better than clubs purchased in the most prestigious pro shops.

Still 98% of the golf equipment purchased in the US is off the rack or standard. So if technology is not advancing the way it once did, what is the next performance break through? Certainly, it is customization. In a 2008 article on playing your best golf a major golf publication reported, "....customization may be the last and least know frontier in the golf equipment industry. Manufacturers that will be successful in the coming decades will embrace a customer-centric approach to fitting the golfer for improved play."

Best Regards,
GigaGolf, Inc.
Custom Golf Equipment

Source: http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/001/blog/index.blog?entry_id=1410760

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The Challenging Life of Mark Mcgwire

Posted by Website Introductions: Mark Mcgwire have gained much popularity in the field of sports, and I think he is stronger enough to face whatever challenges he may encounter in his career life or even personal life. As the coach of the St Louis Cardinals, he has shown that he deserve the position. Well conversation with the devil would not stop Mcgwire to remain in the hall
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Football Reborn in the Philippines

Posted by Website Introductions: Basketball is not the national of the Philippines but almost everybody knows the sports well. But lately, the country experienced a different sport hype when for the longest time, a team in the country gun for FIFA World Cup. Yes, Football became sensational when the national team, known as the Azkals, defeated teams in a recent AFF Suzuki Cup
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Aaron Rodgers, Working Memory and 10,000 Hours Of Practice

After a great Aaron Rodgers performance, you will usually hear at least one of two phrases uttered by post-game football analysts, ?he has a great ability to see the field,? or ?the game has really slowed down for him.?

Assuming the Packers? quarterback does not have super-human vision or a time machine, these comments must refer to his ability to recognize opposing defensive formations, adjust quickly to their movements and pick out an open receiver.  It is a skill that all young players would like to have and their coaches would like to teach.

Of course, the ongoing debate in the sports world is if great perceptual awareness and quick decision making are gifts you?re born with or ones you can develop with practice.  The extreme ends of that continuum seem illogical, that a player can excel with no practice or that anyone who practices enough can be a superstar.  Instead, the discussion has turned to the gray area in between looking for the right combination and the direction of causation between the two.

At the center of the debate for the last 20 years, Florida State psychology professor K. Anders Ericsson has held to a theory that enough deliberate practice, described as a focused activity meant to improve a specific skill, can make up for or even circumvent the lack of general, innate abilities.  His research has shown that about 10,000 hours of practice is the minimum required to rise to an expert level of most knowledge domains, including sports.

Now, in a new study published in Current Directions of Psychological Science, psychologists David Z. Hambrick of Michigan State University and Elizabeth J. Meinz of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville examined this interplay between basic abilities, like working memory capacity, and acquired knowledge learned through practice.  ?We have been especially interested in the question of whether various forms of domain knowledge moderate the impact of basic cognitive abilities on performance,? the authors wrote.

Working memory is used in complex tasks that require holding information in the mind while also trying to reason or comprehend the environment.  Think of Rodgers remembering the pass routes of all of his receivers while processing the movements of eleven defenders around him.

Hambrick and Meinz wanted to find out if the working memory of domain experts, like Rodgers, has as much as an impact on their performance as their years of deliberate practice and learned knowledge of their specialized world.  Previous research has shown that a person?s working memory capacity is strongly correlated with abstract reasoning, problem solving, decision making, language comprehension, and complex learning.

Back in 2002, Professor Hambrick tested this relationship using a baseball domain....
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Using Google Analytics on your Sports Blog Net blog

So you’ve signed up for a Sports Blog Net blog and you’ve been posting away, and now you want to see how many people come to your blog and read your posts. The best way to see and analyze stats from your blog is to use Google Analytics. Through this step-by-step tutorial, I will go [...]

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The Game of Honesty

Posted by Website Introductions: The conversation of Mark McGwire and the devil only proves that McGwire had already learned the consequences of his action. Honesty is important in a game. This is where your integrity and honor as a person enters. Winning because you have steroids is like cheating your own self. You should be courageous to face your problem. Go tell the people
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Equilibrium in Macroeconomics

One of the things macroeconomists focus on quite a bit is calculating equilibrium conditions, or equilibria. Sometimes these account for random shocks or long-term growth – these have names like Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium�and they’re outside the scope of this blog, which has so far focused on introductory-level material. We’re going to develop an idea [...]

Source: http://thebadeconomist.com/2011/04/22/equilibrium-in-macroeconomics/

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