#ICYMI - Golf’s 2018 Ryder Cup: Physics & Psychology at the Albatros

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🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… Are you ready for the 2018 Ryder Cup? Hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly prepare for golf’s most exciting, and most intense, tournament alongside sports physicist John Eric Goff and performance psychologist Gregg Steinberg. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/golfs-2018-ryder-cup-physics-psychology-at-the-albatros/ Photo Credit: By Lionel Allorge [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or FAL], from Wikimedia Commons.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:10.0	And I'm Chuck Knies.
0:11.0	And this is playing with science.
0:14.0	Today we tee up another golf show for you.
0:16.5	True, we may swing and miss, but Chuck and I aim to sink a hole in one at every hole.
0:21.7	So let's be fair, if we do, you are not going to want to miss this now.
0:25.8	Are you?
0:26.8	No, you are not.
0:27.8	When you hear that we're talking, Ryder Cup, golf, the biggest thing in the golfing
0:31.7	universe by far and knocking it straight down the fairway will be our very own sports
0:36.4	mad professor Eric golf.
0:38.4	We'll be putting the course under close scrutiny and pulling out some hidden science for your
0:43.4	review.
0:44.4	Yes.
0:45.4	And once we have seen, if science can explain how to conquer the Albatross at L'National,
0:50.6	we will be crawling inside of the brain of a Ryder Cup golfer.
0:54.2	Yeah.
0:55.2	Of course all of that with the help of performance psychologist Dr. Greg Stingberg.
0:59.6	So clean your balls.
1:02.2	You and I, well, we're coming out swinging.
1:04.4	So joining us first is physics professor Eric golf.
1:11.2	It's good to have you back, professor.
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