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Golf all-in-one for dummies
Shows you not only how to get the most physical benefit from a round of golf, but also the tools you need to enjoy the game.
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This insect weighs almost as much as a golf ball
This large Australian stick insect, which was found by a group of researchers, weighs 44 grams and goes by the name Acrophylla alta.
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Essential golf skills: key tips and techniques to improve your game
Beginning with a test that establishes the reader's level of golfing expertise, an instructional golf handbook offers photomontages of swing sequences illustrating the perfect golf stroke, and includes more than two hundred drills.
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Phenology and sampling crawlers of rhodesgrass mealybug in Georgia golf course putting greens
Rhodesgrass mealybug, Antonina graminis Maskell (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), is an emerging pest of turfgrass in Georgia golf course putting greens. Because the feeding damage of A graminis severely affects the aesthetics of the putting surface, it is necessary to understand the phenology of A graminis on putting greens. To develop management strategies, the temporal emergence of crawlers is determined; however, a sampling tool for A graminis crawlers on putting greens has not been developed. Thus, the objectives were to determine (i) the phenology of A graminis and turfgrass quality and (ii) the best trap types for sampling crawlers on the putting greens in Georgia. From 2019 to 2022, 10-20 turfgrass plugs were sampled from the putting greens at biweekly intervals from the spring to fall. The numbers of crawlers, sessile nymphs, and adults of A graminis were quantified from these plug samples. To determine the best trap types for sampling crawlers, 6 trap types were evaluated on the putting greens in 2021 and 2022. In the spring, the A graminis densities remained low until June or July, then all stages of A graminis increased. In the late fall and winter, A graminis densities declined and remained low. The turfgrass quality improved temporally from April to June but progressively declined from the mid-to-late summer to fall. Significantly greater numbers of crawlers were sampled in the paper-folded sticky card method than in the turfgrass plug method. Thus, sticky traps could be used to sample crawlers for pest management decision. Key words: Antonina graminis, sticky card, bermudagrass
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Choose to move: The motivational impact of autonomy support on motor learning
Numerous studies in the motor learning domain have demonstrated learning advantages of self-controlled practice relative to yoked conditions. In separate lines of evidence in the social-psychological literature, findings show that providing participants with task-relevant autonomy support or minor incidental choices can result in superior outcomes when compared with conditions that thwart autonomy or do not offer choice. We hypothesized that motor learning could be enhanced by providing learners with choices – even if those choices are unrelated to task performance. In Experiment
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, two groups of participants practiced a golf putting task. While one group (the choice group) was able to select the color of golf balls (white, yellow, or orange) to be used in each upcoming block of 10 trials, participants in the second group (the yoked group) were provided with the same colored golf balls their choice-group counterparts had chosen. The results of a 24-h delayed retention test indicated significantly greater putting accuracy for the choice compared with the yoked group. Experiment
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went one step further by asking choice group participants for their preferences regarding two issues unrelated to the practice task (balancing on a stabilometer): (1) which of two subsequent tasks (coincident timing or hand dynamometry) they wanted to perform and (2) which of two prints of paintings by Renoir they thought the investigator should hang on the laboratory wall. Yoked group participants were simply informed about which task they would perform afterwards and of which painting the experimenter would put on the wall. Balance learning was significantly more effective in the choice group on a retention test. Thus, self-controlled practice conditions can influence motor learning without providing task-relevant information, content, or strategic learning advantages. Self-controlled effects in motor learning may be motivational in nature, attributable to satisfaction of fundamental autonomy needs.
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