About the Conference
The world’s top golf teaching professionals, golf technology innovators, golf researchers, and club and ball manufacturers, converge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discuss the state-of-the-art and future of golf technology and learning at the annual Better Golf Through Technology Conference. Conference participants, along with researchers from elite academic institutions, are there to present joint research on various technologies and learning methods. The event features panel discussions on technology’s effectiveness in golf learning. This unprecedented combination of technology, research, and top professionals will continue to make for an unforgettable event that will reveal new insights about the future of golf learning.

New Content on BGTT.org
In keeping with the BGTT charter to serve the golf community, we are expanding our online platform to include research studies conducted by and for the members of the BGTT consortium. We aim to create an online forum for discussion and dissemination of scientific research so everyone is able to take full advantage of new data, new techniques, and new ideas as they are discovered, both during the MIT conferences as well as the rest of the year.

We have uploaded the first of these articles,
Homer Kelley’s Golfing Machine Research Model Tradition Continues to Evolve by Joe Daniels, PGA, GSED and Dr. Matthew M. Rosman, GSEM, Effect of Focus Techniques on the Putting Stroke by Dr. Daniel Rockers and Quintic Putting Technology: Putting Beliefs and Philosophy by Dr. Paul Hurrion.
Research and educational articles are now available. Click Here.

 
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About MIT D.A.P.E.R.

Alongside MIT's vast and superior academic curriculum, the Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation (DAPER) has reinforced its focus toward fostering the growth of the competitively active student, while keeping sight of the Institute's valued academic standards. The department's mission is to bring students, faculty, and staff together in educational activities that promote healthy lifestyles, enhance a sense of community, foster growth in leadership and teamwork skills, and encourage the pursuit of excellence.

.About iClub

iClub enables golfers of every ability to achieve their best performance levels. Innovative technology, coupled with the insights of leading researchers and teaching and touring professionals, has produced a family of products that remarkably changes the golf learning process. The company, which w-as created by a core group of MIT-researchers and students, offers the iClub System, including the iClub and Body Motion System. The iClub was recently highlighted as “Hot Gadget” in Travel and Leisure Golf’s 2005 Hot List. For more information, visit www.iclub.net