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WHOOP Podcast

Master Your Golf Game: Key Habits To Improving On and Off The Green

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

Sports, Sleep, Optimize Performance, Wearable, Fitness, Science, Health, Life Sciences, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Data, Hrv, Whoop, Strain

4.6734 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of the WHOOP Podcast, the WHOOP Research Series continues, sharing science-backed habits to help you improve your golf game. WHOOP Global Head of Human Performance, Principal Scientist Dr. Kristen Holmes and WHOOP Staff Research Scientist Dr. Greg Grosicki break down the groundbreaking new research linking recovery, sleep, and biometrics to the real-world performance of elite golfers. Drawing from one of the largest datasets in WHOOP research history, including 35,000+ ...

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0:00.0

Over the last decade, three Masters tournaments were decided by a single stroke.

0:04.5

Anything that these individuals can do to make their performance even one stroke better,

0:09.6

they would kill for it.

0:10.6

And that's what we were able to show in this paper.

0:13.8

We looked at elite golf performance, eight years of data, over 500 competitive events.

0:21.9

389 tour level golfers.

0:25.1

When you're looking at these golfers, you're thinking, how much more optimized can their

0:29.1

biometrics, their resting heart rate, their heart rate variability really beat?

0:32.5

And what the study shows is where to actually apply your effort.

0:35.2

If those course corrections are enough to be the difference between winning or losing the

0:39.5

master's, tell me they're not going to possibly help the average individual show up to be a better

0:45.6

parent or show up to an interview stronger.

0:50.4

Dr. Greg Grisicki.

0:52.4

Dr. Kristen Holm. How are you today?

0:54.0

So good to have you back.

0:55.4

So good to be here.

0:56.2

We have been just at a breakneck pace with regard to research, and we have published

1:02.6

what I think is one of the most novel data sets ever in the space of human performance.

1:08.7

Would you say that that's a fair characterization?

1:11.6

Yeah. Of all the papers I've published in my career, this was undoubtedly one of the most exciting

1:16.6

projects, I think any of us have ever worked on.

1:18.6

There's no question.

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