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The Effects Of A Goal Setting Intervention And Dispositional Optimism/Pessimism On Selected Golf Skills: A Qualitative Design, Matthew James Wilson
The Effects Of A Goal Setting Intervention And Dispositional Optimism/Pessimism On Selected Golf Skills: A Qualitative Design, Matthew James Wilson
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a goal setting intervention on selected golf skills over the course of a competitive golf season. A secondary purpose of this study was to investigate a comparison of optimism and pessimism in relationship to goal attainment. Subjects (n=7) were elite golfers from a university men's golf team. A two-month goal setting intervention was implemented consisting of the individual golfers selecting three golf skills from five separate categories (fairways in regulation, greens in regulation, total putts per round, up and downs conversion rate, and putts per green in regulation) to …