Comparative Study Of Woodball And Golf

With the advent of leisure era, people’s awareness of leisure will continually enhance, recreational sports will be chose by more and more people. As an elegant, healthy, athletic, recreational sport, plus the beautiful site environment, enduring exercise intensity, suitable for all ages, close to the nature, Golf is gradually being recognized by more and more people. As a new leisure sport, Woodball was affected by golf at the beginning of its invention, it not only inherited the feature of golf, but also has advantages on handling and cost, Woodball has good prospect on development.Through literature research, expert interviews, comparative analysis, video analysis on the four following aspects, the culture, sports technology, sports competitions and sports development of woodball and golf. Differences and similarities were found between woodball and golf, some countermeasures and suggestions were put forward to promote the healthy and rapid development of woodball.Comparative study showed that woodball and golf have the same value of sport, they are physical fitness, entertainment and challenging; they have the same sport cultural connotations for leisure and public; they follow the same swing technical principles, same swing plane, same pendulum principle, same principle of leverage, and same timing and swing dynamic equilibrium; they have the same requirement for technical, psychological, and physical strategies. The difference between them is that, the site requirement for woodball is simpler and the cost is cheaper. And it is easier to understand the rules of woodball and easier to handle the technics, it has a feature of civilian culture. So, woodball has a better public foundation than golf, it should be easier to be accepted by the public, and easier to be promoted, It has a more promising future in the mass fitness era. However, in the event development, personnel training, theoretical research, commercial sponsorship and media publicity, woodball is clearly not as good as golf, which are a few important factors that impede its development. Therefore, we suggest woodball absorbs the essence of golf sports in the following four aspects during the promoting process in order to have a better future and to function well in mass fitness, which are sports culture, sports technology, competition management and sports development.