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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among trust of instructors, sport confidence and continuous participation intention for golf participants. To achieve the goal of this study, a total of 250 questionnaires were distributed and 250 copies were collected back. Out of those returned questionnaires, insincerely replied or double-replied questionnaires were excluded and finally 242 questionnaires were analyzed for this study. For analysis of the data, frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and structural equating modeling were conducted using SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18.0. Main findings were as follows: First trust of instructors had a positive effect on sport confidence. Second, sport confidence had a positive effect on continuous participation intention. Third, trust of instructors had a positive effect on continuous participation intention. Fourth, sport confidence mediated the relationship between golf participant trust of instructors and continuous participation intention.