More recently, SportsTrac has brought CTT-based performance analysis and enhancement to athletes. Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, the National Basketball Association and the NCAA have all used the SportsTrac system, and since 1997, so have players on the PGA and LPGA Tours. The results have been so impressive that I now use SportsTrac with all of my amateur and Tour students. The PGA and LPGA Tour players participating in the testing use SportsTrac daily prior to a round or practice. The program gathers data over several days and weeks.
Players input their scores, fairways and greens hit, putts, birdies and bogeys into a computer.
The daily SportsTrac test takes four or five minutes to complete and is very much like a computer game. After entering the day's data, the player sits in front of the computer with one hand on a finely tuned circular control knob. The goal is to keep a small golf ball centered under a flag in the middle of the screen. The background image on the screen is a fairway. Once the program begins, it quickly moves through a number of difficulty levels, offering the player five attempts.