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Stop watching TV long enough to take this golf survey

July 08, 2015

Debbie Crews is the sports-psychology consultant for the women's golf team at Arizona State University and the chair of the World Scientific Conference of Golf. Her laboratory, in Tempe, Arizona, is carpeted with artificial turf and has two golf holes cut in the floor. She has long white-blond hair and the lean build of a runner. She co-founded the women's golf team at the University of Wisconsin when she was an undergraduate there, in the early 1970s, and later she earned a Masters in exercise physiology and a PhD in psychophysiology. She has conducted several studies of the yips, including two funded by the Mayo Clinic. I described some of her work in an article about the yips that I wrote for The New Yorker last year. Here's Crews in her office:

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Crews is part of a group that is trying to "better understand how golfers think about their game." Answering the questions in the survey they've created takes about 15 minutes. "Ultimately," she says, "it may help golfers at all levels improve their scores." You can get to the survey by clicking here. (If you don't see a link, paste this in your browser: http://thinqgolf.com/survey/)

Crews's research study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of Arizona State University, so you can be almost certain that answering the questions won't give you the yips.