Ground Reaction Force and Foot Pressure Analysis During Golf Iron Swing by Gender

Abstract

This study aims to quantitatively compare and analyze kinetic variables in the motion of male and female professional golfers to suggest basic scientific materials for golf iron swing. Five male and five female professional golfers participated in this experiment. Ground reaction force and foot pressure were measured during performing 10 swings for each participants using an iron club. The result of the ground reaction force indicates that the force occurs at the left foot toward right(-) direction in the mid-downswing(E3) and impact(E4) events in X-axis, while it occurs at the right foot toward anterior(-) direction in Y-axis for both male and female, showing a big difference between them. Also, in Z-axis, large force occurs at the left foot in most events. The analyzed result on foot pressure indicates that men have the highest pressure and area at the left foot, and women have the highest ones at the right foot in the mid-downswing(E3) and impact(E4) events in the max foot pressure, ground contact area and average pressure. It is considered that there is difference of central movement methods between men and women. Thus, different education and training on golf swing should be necessary by gender due to their different patterns of golf iron swing.

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“…그중에서 지면 반력에 관한 연구는 스윙의 메카니즘 관찰뿐만 아니라 클럽간의 비교, 남녀 차이간 의 비교 등 여러 상황에서 연구되었다 (Calsoo, 1967;Cooper, Bates, Bedi & Scheuchenzuber, 1974;Koenig, Tamres & Mann, 1994;Hur, Moon & Lim, 2005;Park, 2010).…”