by Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research If you stare at an object for, say, 30 seconds and then look away to a new focus, you can still see its image lingering on your mental screen for a few seconds. According to research by Gustav Levine and…
by Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research In the lab of Carlos Brody, scientists figured out how a rat makes mistakes. His team found that making an erroneous decision is caused by errors, or “noise,” in the information coming into the brain rather than errors in…
by Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research There are many elements of the golf swing that create power – the length, the speed, and the solidness of contact are three, but also on the list is one you don’t hear much about; width. When you extend…
by Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research It cost a million dollars + and took several years to complete, but the research by Ph.D.’s Alastair Cochran and John Stobbs produced a scientific answer to the question “Is there a perfect swing?” Their answer was no, and…
A Legacy Post by Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research Dr. T. J. Tomasi (1940-2023) One of the standard gamesmanship moves used to disrupt an opponent is to ask, “Do you exhale or inhale at impact?” This is exactly the question I investigated at Keiser University. John Callahan and…
by Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research The most common mistake in golf is also the easiest to correct – bad clubface aim. Almost 85% of the golfers misaim the clubface – right-handers to the right of the target, lefties to the left. Much of it…
by Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research In our everyday lives, numbers play a big role – they are so important that there is an entire area of your brain devoted to answering this basic question – how many? Ben Harvey, a neuroscientist at Utrecht University…
by Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research To promote quiet hands and arms in your swing, you must release your head during the swing. Freezing your head in place forces the hands to flip past the body. I also believe releasing the head reduces strain on…
by Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research If you are having difficulty controlling the distance of your chips, as in one time you cream it too far, and the next one you leave way too short, my diagnosis is that you are probably losing control of…
by Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research If you are a golfer and you want to teach yourself to play better golf, you need to use a correct practice routine to guide your development, a routine in which failure is a harbinger of success. This involves…
