Demographics and quality of studies reporting the epidemiology of professional golf injuries
| Author | Data collection | Setting | No. of participants | Questionnaire response rates (%) | Mean age (range) | Gender (%) | Mean length of career (years) | LoE |
| Gosheger et al 5 | Retrospective questionnaire distributed over a period of 2 seasons | Randomly selected professional golfers in Germany | 60 | 100 | 37 (22–63) | Male, 90% Female, 10% | NR | III |
| Hadden et al 41 | Retrospective report over 7 years | Injuries occurring at the Open Championship and reviewed by the on-call medical officer | 88 | NA | NR | MC | NR | III |
| McCarroll and Gioe42 | Retrospective questionnaire | Questionnaires mailed to PGA and LPGA tour players | 226 | 45 | 30 (23–70) | Male, 56% Female, 44% | Men=18 (1–36) Women=9 (1–23) | III |
| Smith and Hillman2 | Prospective collection over 2 years | Audit of the service delivered by the mobile physiotherapy unit on the European Tour | 2328 ‘injuries’ | NA | NR | MC | NR | III |
| Sugaya et al 16 | Retrospective questionnaire | Questionnaires returned during four different professional events in Japan | 281 | 57 | 40 (20–63) | Male, 60% Female 40% | Men=27 Women=14 | III |
LoE, level of evidence; MC, male only cohort; NA, not available; NR, not recorded.