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This study is to identify the effect of training, when it was conducted through hearing stimulus by selecting the most suitable sound for human body's golf swing, and to closely examine the individual differences. To achieve the said purpose, the findings acquired in this study regarding displacement of the center of body, rotation angle of a should, elbow, knee and hip joint depend on each sound. The conclusion of this study may be summarized as follows: First, just one type of swing needs to be conducted in terms of the swing type by sound, although both the skilled player group and the unskilled group have their own swing types. Secondly, one's body should judgingly be more systematically applied to golf learning by using the sound hearing stimulus.

The purpose is to investigate the effects of golfers satisfaction factors on personalities and thus to provide information to develop golf industry. In order to accomplish such purpose of study, a survey methodology was applied, and frequency analysis, reliability tests, factor analysis and multiple regression analysis were conducted with 240 golfers. As a result, following results were derived from current study. First, as a result of correlation analysis between satisfaction and personality factors, there are positive correlations between mental, social and physical factors in satisfaction and facility factor, and being committed, excited, gifted, sophisticated and strong for personality. Second, golfers’ commitment was influenced by their mental and physical satisfactions while facility has an effect on satisfaction with the commitment rather than vise versa. Third, golfers’ excitement in personality is influenced by their mental, social and physical factors. Fourth, golfers’giftedness in personality is influenced by their mental, social and physical factors. Fifth, golfers’being sophisticated in personality is influenced by their mental and physical factors. And last, golfers’being strong in personality is influenced by their mental and physical factors.

The purpose of this study was to examine differences in perceived golf caddy service between caddies and customers in membership golf clubs and to provide fundamentals that help improving service quality of caddies for a golf club. A survey methodology was to applied with a total of 840 subjects, 420 golfers and 420 caddies from 7 membership golf clubs located in Jeonnam Area. The questionnaire consisted of 5 service dimensions including countenance & manners, safety, scrutiny, technical expertise and golf theory & knowledge and was validated through a line of psychometric process such as content validity ration, exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency for reliability tests. A total of 839 usable questionnaires were analyzed using t-tests on a=.05. Accordingly, the analyses indicated that in the most dimensions of caddy service, levels of perceived caddy service by customers were lower than those of it by service providers, caddies in this study. These findings suggest that golf clubs willing to obtain superior business advantages through caddy service need to train caddies periodically to improve overall levels of caddy service and to decrease the perceived service performance gaps between customers and caddies.

The purpose of sport activities for persons with disability coulb be returning to society. In other words, sport activities provide assistances to persons with disability enable to live with neighbors and make returning to society easy. Among many, Golf is a kind of sport that anyone can participate and enjoy. Although a person lost his or her vision completely or partially, that can not be an obstacle to play golf. Recently, there are few thousands individuals with visual impairment who are participating golf games borrowing friends' eyes. Therefore, there is a sincere necessity establishing public golf coaching programs for persons with visual impairment so that they could live with persons with non-disability. Despite the importance of the necessity which providing chances to participate physical activities such as golf games to persons with visual impairment, there are heavy lack of the program building and field research in actual field because of insufficient facilities, difficulty of moving, and lack of provided programs. Developing and coaching suitable golf coaching programs for persons with visual impairment, strong effects on rectifying walking patterns and increasing movement skills. In addition, the action will make meaningful impact on increasing their basic fitness ability, golf game skills and knacks. Further, the action will help persons with visual impairment to enjoy their leisure time and to bring up their self-confidence.

Environmental problems on golf course has been argued for a long time in the world. It has been supposed that soil contamination by agriculture chemicals could be more serious by increasing of golf courses. However, we are confusing since there is little information or studying about environmental effects of golf courses in Korea. Therefore, it is very important to understand well the characteristic and the usage of pesticide and herbicide for environmental preservation. There are 3 points in order to reduce the effects of agricultural chemicals. 1) what is the best chemical in each golf course 2) when is the best time to spray chemicals 3) how to decrease the scattering and moving of chemicals. It must be more useful for many golf course managers to protect environment, but there are many management programs including pesticide management in golf courses. In conclusion, it can be proposed to consider not only the agricultural chemical program but also the integrated pest management system for eco -friendly golf courses.