SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Our golf coaching/instruction program is built around
principles developed from many decades of research into
physical, mental and technical aspects of the golf swing
and student development. BGGA has an extraordinary
Scientific Advisory Board made up of the following:
Dr. Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Psychology, University of California
Dr. Robert A. Bjork is Distinguished Research Professor in the
Department of Psychology at the University of California,
Los Angeles. His research focuses on human learning and
memory and on the implications of the science of learning
for instruction and self-regulated learning. He is past president
or chair of the Association for Psychological Science; the
Psychonomic Society; and the Society of Experimental
Psychologists. He is a recipient of UCLA’s Distinguished
Teaching Award and (together with Dr. Elizabeth L. Bjork) the
Association for Psychological Science’s James McKeen Cattell
Award. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
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Dr. Bob Christina
Emeritus Dean & Professor
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCF)
Dr. Bob Christina is Emeritus Professor of Kinesiology and
Emeritus Dean of the School of Health and Human Sciences at
the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). For the
past 10 years he has served as Assistant Men’s Golf Coach at
UNCG. He also serves as research and educational consultant
on Learning and Performance for the Pinehurst Golf Academy,
Precision Golf School, Golf Magazine, Golf Magazine’s Top 100
Teachers, PGA of America, LPGA Teaching and Club Professionals,
and the Steering Committee of the World Scientific Congress
of Golf.
Dr. Anders Ericsson
Professor of Psychology, Florida State University
K. Anders Ericsson (born 1947) is a Swedish psychologist
and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology
at Florida State University who is internationally recognized as a
researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human
performance.
Currently, Ericsson studies expert performance in domains such
as medicine, music, chess, and sports, focusing exclusively on