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