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Research Project Question: Through biomechanical analysis, how can I make my golf swing more like Tiger Woods?
Clarifying and Defining my Research Project Topic / Question:
For research I considered topics within two personal interests. The personal interests that I considered for further research were Sport and Gardening. Within the field of gardening I really only considered one potential topic for research: How to re-landscape my front garden. While I also considered water preservation and how to protect plants on hot days in broad terms I really would like to re-landscape my front garden. We have recently moved from a house that had an amazing front garden and would like to re-capture this at the house we have moved to. Within the field of sport I have several interests: Drugs in Sport, AFL, Golf, Cricket, Tennis and Injury Rehabilitation. I considered:
• Drugs in Sport – Researching what has happened at Essendon in 2012 and 2013.
• AFL – Greatest GF of all time, How to train effectively, and how to select a fantasy football team.
• Cricket – Is 20-20 ruining other forms of the game?
• Tennis – Who is the greatest player of all time? Is technology ruining the sport?
• Golf – Comparing my golf swing with Tiger Woods. Is technology ruining the sport?
Within all of the topics considered I determined that comparing my golf swing with Tiger Woods is of greatest interest. I have recently had back surgery and this would appear to be a good time to re-model my golf swing. Tiger Woods has been the best golfer in the world for the past 15 years so who better to model my own swing upon. The next question is how do I analyse our swings? Biomechanics is the application of scientific principles (largely Physics) to sport. As su...

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...creative in the way that I seek the advice of experts to assist. I will constantly need to ask questions of experts to clarify my thinking, reflect on my own thinking, and adjust and explain my thinking as I work through the process of analysis. I will also need to explain how the actions I recommend within my golf swing will make it more like Tiger’s swing – this will take a great deal of critical and creative thinking. I will also need to think creatively in the first instance so that I can locate the information required, but also critically to determine which research processes provide me with the best and most reliable information. To summarise, I will need to be critical and creative within the initial research phase but I will also need to develop my thinking as I apply the information that I have collected so that it can be presented in a meaningful way.

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