Believe it or not, golf is actually good for your health. Even the United States Golf Association thinks so; they also advise that you should walk the golf course and avoid – as much as possible – riding in golf carts.

Although riding golf carts is the most convenient way to get yourself from one hole to the next, it will actually be better for your body if you walk. Walking pumps your heart, circulates your blood, and is an easy and fun way of exercising.

David Fay from the United States Golf Association thinks that the most pleasurable way to play golf is by walking.

Walking is a good form of exercise. It is the most basic and easy program of getting fit which almost anyone could do. Simply put, walking is good for you.

In Sweden, there are researchers who discovered that walking an eighteen hole game of golf equals anywhere from about forty to seventy percent of the intensity of an aerobic class workout.

In another study by cardiologist Edward Palank, golfers who walked the course regularly lowered their levels of bad cholesterol, while levels of good cholesterol remained steady. Golfers who typically road in carts did not show a decrease in bad cholesterol.

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