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