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Published online 9 January 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010111-1
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Putt it out of your mind
Golfers who miss the shortest putts may have physical as well as mental problems.
If, as Mark Twain believed, "golf is a good walk spoilt", then a bizarre condition called the 'yips' is often to blame. Golfers who can whack the ball across lakes and chip it delicately over bunkers lose the ability even to hold the club still when they face a tiny putt -- minds freeze, arms jerk and the ball stays resolutely above ground.
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