Thursday, July 16, 2009

Golf & Neuroplasticity: The Open 2009

It was about a year a go in a post called The Open and The Brain at Royal Birkdale I said when Greg Norman at 53 led into the final of The Open:

“……Yet on the first two days he single putted 17 holes including a 50 footer. Perhaps his brain has been well primed by years of putting, more years than any of the other players……”



Tome Watson The Open 2009 Robert Beck/SI



Looks like neuroplasticity is at play again on the exciting start of The Open at Turnberry: 5 birdies and no bogey put 59 year old Tom Watson at the top. Nothing beats years of green reading and putting.

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