When Young-Hoo Kwon was a PhD student at Penn State, he was more likely to be found on the soccer field and the tennis courts than on the golf course. He actually hated golf. Even as his tennis friends transitioned to golf enthusiasts, Kwon drew a line in the sand, refusing to convert. 

Decades later, Kwon is consumed by golf. Over the last 16 years, Kwon, a professor of kinesiology and director of the Biomechanics and Motor Behavior Lab in the School of Health Promotion & Kinesiology at Texas Woman’s, has become one of the world’s leading researchers in golf biomechanics. 

Through years of capturing data on golf swings with innovative 3D technology and then analyzing it with software that he created when he was a PhD student, Kwon has produced research that filled a gap in the science of golf. He has given presentations all over the world on his research, teaches biomechanics certification courses to golf instructors and has published 10 articles specifically on golf biomechanics.