This is a guest post by Stephanie Creed.
You don’t have to be as talented as Tiger Woods or have the money to be able to stay in swanky 5 star golf hotels to take up the sport and take advantage of the obvious health benefits.
The beauty of golf in comparison to other hobbies and pastimes is the fact that you’re never too old to start playing and there’s an abundance of courses available pretty much anywhere and everywhere. Simply buy, borrow or hire some clubs, find a course close to you that you can play on and then give it a go.
Eighteen-hole courses tend to be over 5,000 yards in length, which means if you enjoy a nice leisurely round of golf then you’ll easily have walked a minimum of nearly 5km (three miles) in the space of a few hours without even really noticing. Play a round or two every week and you’ll soon start to look and feel much better as it’ll increase your stamina.
Even if you don’t have the time to fit in a full round, hitting some balls down the driving range for an hour or two a week will also help in the battle to beat the bulge. Swinging and putting will improve upper body strength and providing you stand correctly will also enhance your core muscles, while pounding the fairways and greens of a course on a regular basis will tone calf and thigh muscles.
Golf is gentle exercise that can have a big impact on your appearance!
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Stephanie Creed is a copywriter with a journalism background and she has a passion for all things golf and language related. She is part of a team of experts who always come up with all manner of wonderful, weird and downright crazy ideas.
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I love golf and I am always amazed at how worn out I am by the end of the day. It certainly seems like a great workout when it’s over, even though it isn’t too hard while you are doing it. Great post! Thanks!!!