{"id":146,"date":"2016-11-20T21:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T21:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=146"},"modified":"2019-08-19T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:51:13","slug":"world-golf-fitness-summit-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"World Golf Fitness Summit 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mytpi.com\/wgfs\/\" target=\"_blank\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/world-golf-summit-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"world golf summit\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/world-golf-summit-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/world-golf-summit.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dr Ben Langdown, Lecturer in Sport and Fitness, attended\u00a0the\u00a0World Golf Fitness Summit in New Orleans in October 2016. This is an event which attracts over 600 international coaches, trainers and golf researchers. He presented research from the final experimental chapter of his <a href=\"http:\/\/etheses.bham.ac.uk\/6164\/\" target=\"_blank\" >PhD<\/a> which assessed the relationship between the overhead squat screening test and movements made in the golf swing. He also suggested how coaches could adapt practice sessions to allow the development of increasingly creative golfers and allow more efficient transfer of strength and conditioning gains into the golf swing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ben Langdown, Lecturer in Sport and Fitness, attended\u00a0the\u00a0World Golf Fitness Summit in New Orleans in October 2016. This is an event which attracts over 600 international coaches, trainers and golf researchers. He presented research from the final experimental chapter of his PhD which assessed the relationship between the overhead squat screening test and movements &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/?p=146\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Golf Fitness Summit 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-presentations","category-dissemination","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/sport-research-group\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}