Interesting Golf Health Facts

ENDORPHINS

Not only is playing golf physically good for you, it also releases powerful, natural, mood enhancing endorphins into your bloodstream. Just having a stroll in the open air and enjoying a round of golf with your friends helps to make you feel better.

EXERCISE

Let’s take a look at Tiger Woods. He transformed from a gangling 21-year-old into a chiselled 28-year-old. His training involves weight machines, free weights, dumbbells, medicine balls and various items for stretching and balancing, such as inflatable rubber “physio” balls and foam cylinders.

For us, there’s a lot of walking in golf which is great for the

cardiovascular system and lungs. In addition to speeding up your metabolism, it also helps to lower harmful cholesterol. A round of golf burns an average of 300 calories for 1 hour while carrying clubs.

BONE HEALTH

Weight Bearing exercises create long, lean muscle mass, which helps support a strong skeleton. This type of exercise helps to prevent bone degeneration, including osteoporosis. Carry your clubs to include weight bearing in your golf game.

STRESS REDUCTION & CHOLESTEROL

Golf reduces stress and cholesterol. A single game of golf (about 4 hours) can burn up to a thousand calories, which is a great way to stay in shape and burn off excess fat. A game of golf gets the blood flowing and increases your heart rate.

BRAIN POWER

Studies have shown that new brain cells are created and more oxygen is pumped to the brain when you are active in some kind of aerobic exercise. Playing golf can help boost your brain power and walking the course will help even more. Golf constantly challenges your mind in terms of coordination, concentration, visualization, estimation, strategy, preparing for and practicing each shot.

SLEEP BETTER

Regular exercise, like golfing will make you fall asleep faster and remain in a deep sleep for a long period of time. Playing a round of golf in the day will likely increase the quality of your rest at night.

SELF CONFIDENCE & FOCUS

Golf requires you to train your mind to become focused and every success builds your self confidence.  Walking in nature and the success of getting even a par is always a joy!