| Yes, it is official. Golf is good for | | | | exercise and researchers in Sweden |
| you. This has also been verified by the | | | | discovered that if eighteen holes were |
| United States Golf Association and their | | | | played then one has equaled about forty |
| advice is that you should play golf and | | | | to seventy percent of any high intensity |
| walk the course while playing rather | | | | aerobic workout. |
| than riding the golf cart. That is how | | | | This is very good given that you are |
| it is good for health. Walking is known | | | | getting a lot of pleasure out of the |
| to boost the pumping of the heart for | | | | game and it does not ever get |
| the blood to circulate through the body | | | | monotonous. Bad cholesterol levels were |
| to carry out this activity and this in | | | | found to have dropped while good |
| turn provides the essential nourishment | | | | cholesterol remained steady. These |
| for your body. Walking is good for the | | | | results were not seen among the cart |
| body so golfing carts should be avoided | | | | users. Golf Science International came |
| as much as is possible. Besides golf | | | | up with the fact that four hours of golf |
| carts do a lot of damage to the green, | | | | are more or less equal to at least forty |
| adding to the pollution in the air. Now, | | | | five minutes of a fitness class. |
| grass is artificially grown even in | | | | Northern Ohio Golf Association came up |
| places where it's not meant to grow and | | | | with the theory that walking across the |
| here the cart can cause damage. | | | | golf course is like walking three to |
| Repairing then becomes an expensive | | | | four miles and this is including the |
| affair. | | | | walking around trees and hillocks that |
| Some argued that the start and stop | | | | form the green. |
| system that is part of the game of golf | | | | But if you feel that this can't really |
| is not really good and can actually do | | | | be true, then try it out for yourself. |
| the body harm but they were silenced | | | | At your next game, try to walk alternate |
| when it was proven that even the start | | | | holes so that once the game is over you |
| and stop pattern has a lot of positive | | | | have effectively walked nine holes. Do |
| benefits to it. People have actually | | | | this for some time and slowly you stop |
| chronicled their experiences and what | | | | taking the cart as you find that walking |
| they gained by the very act of walking | | | | gives you a new high as well as lets you |
| the course rather than riding it. This | | | | play. |
| is the simplest and cheapest form of | | | | |