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It’s true, playing golf is good for your health. Even the various International golf associations agree - provided you walk the golf course and don’t ride on a golf cart or buggy.
The act of walking the course increases your heart rate and boosts your circulation - it is a form of aerobic exercise. Some Swedish research has shown that walking around the course whilst playing a round of golf provides up to 70 percent of the effort that would be expended in an aerobics class.
Walking is an excellent form of exercise although, without a dog to walk, it can sometimes seem a little pointless! Combining a walk with a round of golf puts purpose back into your exercise.
Cardiologist Edward Palank reports that golfers who walk rather than ride around the course were found to be in a better state of health with lower levels of of bad cholesterol and static levels of good cholesterol. Those golfers who took a ride on their golf cart did not show these same positive health results.
According to Golf Science International, four hours of golf playing was found to be comparable to attending a forty five minute fitness class.
The Northern Ohio Golf Association calculated that when a golfer walks a course it is roughly equivalent to walking for up to four miles.
If you are used to taking a golf cart around the course try first of all walking alternate holes so that by the end of your round of golf you should have walked a total of nine holes.
If you have an unfit golf partner who insists that you ride along with him or her, make sure that you only ride the cart path. Walk down to the fairway to your ball.
If nothing else, you will be preserving the grass of the fairway and saving it from golf cart damage.
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