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Golf is a healthy exercise for seniors article from Medicine net. Highlights: Golfing compared favorably to walking & Nordic walking in some measures of heart health. Study published in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine

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Shhhh! According to a certain poster here (who obviously knows better), it's not exercise, at all!
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Can be. We always walk, spending a buck for a push-cart and enjoying the scenery as well as the game.
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Shhhh! According to a certain poster here (who obviously knows better), it's not exercise, at all!
And will provide a hundred word essay as to why…………
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For those that won't take the time to read the article:

“The results of this study are meant to encourage older adults to spend more time on the golf course and play by walking,”
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For those that won't take the time to read the article:

“The results of this study are meant to encourage older adults to spend more time on the golf course and play by walking,”
I considered noting that in my highlights, but decided it would provoke too much blow-back.
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Only a hundred? We should be so lucky...
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I will be showing this article to my primary care doctor, who does not believe that Golf is exercise.
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I will be showing this article to my primary care doctor, who does not believe that Golf is exercise.������
Providing you walk the course!
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You need some qualifiers on your Dr's opinion. If you walk, either using a pushcart or carry bag, it is exercise, unless your primary care Dr. doesn't believe walking is a form of exercise. If you ride in a golf cart then he/she may have a point.

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