| The Health Benefits of Golf | | | | Also, according to Golf Science |
| | | | International, four hours of golf playing was |
| Copyright © Norleen Gray | | | | found to be comparable to attending a forty |
| | | | five minute fitness class. |
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| | | | Another golf association, specifically the |
| The Health Benefits of Golf | | | | Northern Ohio Golf Association, stated that |
| | | | when a golfer walks across a course, it is |
| Believe it or not, golf is actually good for | | | | roughly equivalent to walking for three to |
| your health. Even the United States Golf | | | | four miles. This included walking around |
| Association thinks so; they also advise that | | | | hills, over greens and tees. |
| you should walk the golf course and try to | | | | |
| avoid - as much as possible - riding golf | | | | Not convinced yet? Maybe you should try doing |
| carts. | | | | the following activities and see, as well as |
| | | | feel, the difference for yourself. |
| Although riding golf carts is the most | | | | |
| convenient way to get yourself from one hole | | | | During a round of golf, try to walk along |
| to the next, it will actually be good for | | | | alternating holes so that by the end of your |
| your body if you walk your legs along the | | | | round of golf you should be able to have |
| greens. Doing so pumps your heart, circulates | | | | walked through a total of nine holes. |
| the blood all over your body, and is a good | | | | |
| and fun way of exercising. | | | | If you are feeling not up to it yet as fully |
| | | | as you should, that is okay. Maybe you could |
| David Fay from the United States Golf | | | | try walking on a set of nines while you can |
| Association also thinks that the most | | | | ride the other set. |
| pleasurable way to play golf is by walking. | | | | |
| Riding carts, he said, should as much as | | | | If you have a golf partner and he or she |
| possible be stopped now. | | | | insists that you ride along with him or her, |
| | | | make sure that you only ride on the path of |
| Walking is a good form of exercise. It is the | | | | the cart. You can then walk down to the |
| most basic and easy program of getting fit | | | | fairway towards your ball and then your |
| which almost anyone could do. Simply put, | | | | partner could bring the golf cart up. |
| walking is good for you. | | | | |
| | | | Are you convinced yet? If not, try to look at |
| Although some believe that walking the golf | | | | it this way. If your health is not good |
| course is a very unhealthy thing to do | | | | enough for you to settle to walk those legs |
| because of the nature of the game - the start | | | | and pump that good old heart of yours, then |
| and stop process of golf playing. In | | | | at least take pity and be considerate of the |
| actuality though, there have been scientific | | | | damage that golf carts do to fairways. |
| studies as well as evidence of people | | | | |
| actually telling their personal experiences | | | | Believe it or not, golf carts do create |
| on the positive effects of walking through a | | | | damage around sand traps and around the |
| game of golf. | | | | greens. Even if carts are not supposed to |
| | | | ride along these areas, sometimes though, |
| In Sweden in particular, there are | | | | depending on who is behind the golf cart's |
| researchers who discovered that walking | | | | wheel, they still at times do. |
| through a game of golf equals to about forty | | | | |
| to seventy percent of intense workout in an | | | | For the sake of the greens, go walk! Because |
| aerobics class. This is assuming that about | | | | of advances in technology, there are now |
| eighteen holes were played. | | | | grasses that are able to grow on areas that |
| | | | they originally are not supposed to grow on |
| In another study by a cardiologist named | | | | at all. As a result of this, golf courses |
| Edward Palank, golfers who walked were found | | | | look as amazing as they were before. |
| to be in a better state of health because the | | | | Unfortunately, these same golf courses are as |
| level of bad cholesterol in their body | | | | subject to a lot of wear and tear as well. |
| decreased. Meanwhile, the level of their good | | | | |
| cholesterol was steady. Those golfers who | | | | Driving a golf cart along these beautiful |
| settled to ride their way across the golf | | | | greens subjects them to unnecessary damage. |
| course on golf carts,, however, did not show | | | | So now that you know, it would not hurt you |
| these same positive health results. | | | | to consider walking along, across, over, or |
| | | | through those greens now would it? |