ABSTRACT
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship of eye dominance with subjective visibility and performance in golf putting. Twenty-four right-handed and right-eyed and 23 right-handed and left-eyed Japanese students participated in this experiment. They were asked to putt 10 balls each in three conditions, that is, both eyes condition, left eye condition, and right eye condition. After putting in each condition, they rated their subjective visibility of the ball, the cup, both the ball and the cup, and the direction. The analysis indicated that the right-eyed subjects showed significantly better performance than the left-eyed subjects in all three conditions. On visibility, the dominant eye generally had better view than the nondominant eye. These findings suggest that for Japanese novice golfers the right eye would play a more important role than the left eye in putting, and that although the dominant eye would have better visibility, putting performance may not be always related to visibility directly.
