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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 try to avoid – as much as possible – riding a golf cart.

Although riding golf cart is the most convenient way to get yourself from one hole to the next, it's  actually good for your body if you walk the course.

Doing so pumps your heart, circulates the blood all over your body, and is a good and fun way of exercising.

David Fay from the United States Golf Association also thinks that the most pleasurable way to play golf is by walking. Riding a cart, he said, should as avoided as much as possible.

Walking is a gread way to exercise. It's the most basic and easy program for getting fit which almost anyone could do.

Although some believe that walking the golf course is unhealthy because of the nature of the game – the start and stop process of golf playing. In actuality though, there have been scientific studies as well as evidence of people actually telling their personal experiences on the positive effects of walking through a game of golf. In Sweden in particular, there are researchers who discovered that walking through a game of golf equals about forty to seventy percent of an intense workout in an aerobics class. This is assuming that about eighteen holes are played. In another study by a cardiologist named Edward Palank, golfers who walked were found to be in a better state of health because the level of bad cholesterol in their body decreased. Meanwhile, the level of their good cholesterol was steady. Those golfers who settled to ride their way across the golf course on golf carts, however, didn't show these same positive health results. Also, according to Golf Science International, four hours of golf playing was found to be comparable to attending a forty-five minute fitness class. Another golf association, specifically the Northern Ohio Golf Association, stated that when a golfer walks a course, it's roughly equivalent to walking three to four miles. This included walking around hills, over greens and tees. Not convinced yet? Maybe you should try doing the following activities and see, as well as feel, the difference for yourself. During a round of golf, try to walk along alternating holes so that by the end of your round of golf you've walked through a total of nine holes. If you're not feeling up to it, that is okay. Maybe you could try walking a set of nines while you can ride the other set. If you have a golf partner and he or she insists that you ride along with him or her, make sure you only ride on the path of the cart. You can then walk down to the fairway towards your ball and then your partner can bring the golf cart up. Are you convinced yet? If not, try to look at it this way. If your health isn't good enough for you to walk those legs and pump that good old heart of yours, then at least take pity and be considerate of the damage that golf carts do to fairways. Believe it or not, golf carts do create damage around sand traps and around the greens. Even if carts are not supposed to ride along these areas, sometimes though, depending on who's behind the golf cart's wheel, at times they do. For the sake of the greens, walk! Due to advances in technology, there are now grasses that can grow in areas they originally weren't supposed to grow on at all. As a result, golf courses look as amazing as they were before. Unfortunately, these same golf courses are as subject to a lot of wear and tear as well.

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