Geometry
Think you don’t know a lot about geometry? Then think again because the human brain has been using geometry to figure things out for 1.4 million years. Research by Véronique Izard, a psychologist at the Descartes campus of the University of Paris says geometry is an intuitive as part of our DNA. The skill of figuring out every day geometry requires no formal training and it is cross-cultural -- both modern and primitive.
“I would say that this means Euclidean geometry is probably universal to all human beings,” she said. “We find people grasping concepts of geometry that go beyond the perceivable.”
Takeaway: Golf, whatever else it is, is a game of geometry – the relationship of lines and arcs. So what makes golf so hard if golfers have an intuited sense of Euclidian geometry? That’s an easy one – most golfers are so tied up in swing mechanics that they can’t possibly let their brain work out the Point A to Point B geometry problems. If you’re playing ‘golf swing’ instead of ‘golf’ you’re bound to flunk golf geometry 101 every time you tee it up.
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