Golf is an enjoyable and challenging sport that also has various health benefits to it.
Stress Buster
- This is one of the main health benefits of playing golf.
- You spend time in the most natural fresh environment with plenty of oxygen.
- It helps in releasing endorphins that are a natural, mood-enhancing chemical within our brains, making you happier and relaxed.
Relation Building
- Golf is a very social sport.
- It can be a great way to keep in touch with friends and provide opportunities to meet new people.
- You get plenty of time for interacting with fellow golfers.
Enhances Fitness
- Playing golf requires covering a lot of distance, walking from one shot to another.
- Walking helps you burn a lot of calories.
- With all the walking, carrying, and swinging involved, golfers can burn up to 1000 calories in a single game.
Brain Booster
- As the game involves a lot of walking and swinging your body remains warmed up with increased blood flow and increasing your heart rate, so the blood flow to the brain, which can stimulate and improve nerve cell connections
- The challenges involved with golf boost self confidence and self-esteem, and the mental alacrity involved in tallying scores, improving strategy, and fostering hand-eye coordination keeps the brain active in logical functions.
Improves Mental Health
Golf is a kind of sport that has the power to reduce anxiety, improve confidence, and boost self-esteem, all of which contribute to improved mental wellbeing.
Contributed by Mrs Havovi Osman
The game adds years to one’s life too. Even Sadguru the Mystic plays , his handicap is 14 !
True
you play with likeminded guys
and
keeps you away from your spouse for 4-5 hours !!!!
Me time for both
It builds character. When an opponent acknowledges more strokes than you thought he had made…..He goes up in your esteem and you feel you must live up to such honest behaviour yourself.
When someone cheats, you can learn what NOT to do!
Golf is like real life