Abstract
"A pendulum stroke" is used by many golfers. The purpose of this study was to understand human motor control by comparing human putting movements and the physical pendulum of firmly fixed putter. Three experienced professional golfers participated in this study. They executed ten putts as accurately as possible, in order to reach a target distance of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10m. Movement pattern characteristics were assessed by kinematic analysis. In addition, putts of the same distance were tried using the physics pendulum. It was found that the putter head speed, at the time of impact in the physics pendulum putt, exceeded that for humans. On the other hand, for ball speed after impact, the human's putting was faster than that of the physics pendulum's. The difference between human putting and the physics pendulum was shown. However, it was understood that successful putts are achieved by having skillful motor control.
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