Golf Pilot Results

Summary

Research Questions

• • • Does Meta-Brain Lab technology change golfers’ putting performance?
  • • Does Meta-Brain Lab Technology change golfers’ putting mechanics?
  • Does Meta-Brain Lab technology change golfers’ performance anxiety for putting?

Recruitment

Golfers:  Study participants were all based in the USA. They were recruited through the leadership team’s personal contact and a LinkedIn post aimed at golf instructors.

Procedures:  Golfers completed a pre-intervention survey that measured performance anxiety about putting, and beliefs about putting ability. The survey also collected demographic information. Golfers then completed two putting tasks.

Participants:

• • • N = 28 golfers
  • • Age: M = 42.19 years old
  • • Gender: Men = 27 Women = 1
  • • Ability: M = 87.57 (18-hole score)
  • Experience; M = 25.75 years playing

Measures:

• • • 8 foot putting task
  • • 20 foot putting task
  • • Technical putting mechanics
  • • Performance anxiety
  • Ability beliefs

Analysis:

• • • Pre and post-intervention testing
  • • Dependent sample t-tests
  • Regression analysis

Putting Tasks

Psychological Measures:

• • • How many putts made from 8 ft do golfers make (10 balls)
  • • Aggregated distance from 20 ft (5 balls)
  • Blast Motion golf sensor & App

• • • Fixed mindset (Dweck, 1999)
  • Revised Competitive State Anxiety-2 (CSAI-2R) (Cox et al., 2003)

Meta-Brain Labs Chatbot Session (Intervention)

• • • After golfers completed the pre-intervention survey and putting tasks, they participated in a Chabot session using Meta-Brain Lab technology.
  • • EEG Neurotech measured brainwaves transmitted to the tech platform for real-time analysis while each user engaged the Chatbot addressing putting performance under stress.   Incongruence between golfers’ stated beliefs and their unconscious beliefs were identified. Based on the appraisal, a set of reprogramming statements were generated to change a golfers’ self-limiting beliefs, within 2 weeks.
  • • Golfers in the study were asked to complete the Meta-Brain Lab reprograming statements twice a day for two weeks.
  • After two weeks of Meta-Brain Lab reprogramming, they completed the post-intervention survey and putting tasks.

Results

Conclusions

Strong Findings

• • The results of this pilot study are encouraging. More research is needed to replicate the findings under more controlled conditions.

Improves  Putting

• • Preliminary results suggest that Meta-Brain Lab training can improve golfers’ putting performance and critical technical metrics.

Reduces Anxiety

• • In addition to putting performance improvement. This pilot study suggests that Meta-Brain Lab training can reduce golfers’ anxiety.

The Study Lacked Robust Controls

• • • Variation in how study was administrated.
  • • Variation in golfers’ adherence to study protocols.
  • • Study administrators were used as participants.
  • Participants completed putting tasks in different locations under different conditions.