Interventions for golfer’s yips depend on its origin – neurological or psychological

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Interventions for golfer’s yips depend on its origin – neurological or psychological

Steve Targett

Steve Targett

Golf
The yips affects golfers when playing short chips or putts

SPORTS MEDICINE

Golfer’s yips is a task-specific movement disorder with similarities to musician’s dystonia. However, it appears that the yips is not just a focal dystonia, as this article explains

Key points, Golfer’s yips usually manifests as a twisting, jerking or tremor-like movement of the lower arm/wrist when playing short chips or putts. The pathoph