Developing the interdisciplinary scope of golf strength and conditioning coaching: Learning from practitioners’ conceptualization and use of athletes’ errors

Interdisciplinarity is increasingly recognised as a feature of expert sports coaching. Concurrently, the importance of coaches’ decision-making regarding the role and use of challenge during training has been emphasised. To address these developments and further understand their relatedness within the applied context, using semi-structured interviews, this study explored eight golf strength and conditioning (S&C) coaches’ perspectives on and experiences of athletes’ errors (as indicators of challenge) and interdisciplinary integration. Notably, findings indicate a clear need for development within the golf domain regarding interdisciplinary knowledge and practice as it pertains to support provision. Specifically, recommendations are made to support the bidirectional integration of S&C knowledge across golf coaching domains and stress the importance of developing golf S&C practitioners’ psychosocial competencies during accreditation and continuous professional development curricula.