An examination of the "hot hand" in professional golfers.
A study investigated the "hot hand" among professional golfers. Hole-to-hole scores within 747 tournaments from a randomly chosen group of 35 players on the 1997 PGA Tour were analyzed. Contingency analyses gave no evidence for the "hot hand". Players were just as likely to score a birdie or better following a par or worse hole as make a birdie or better following a birdie or better hole. These results are consistent with those found for individual players in baseball and basketball.
Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, 76203-1280, USA. rdclark@unt.edu
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D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006055:Golf / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance