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Golf Can be Good for Your Health

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February 09, 2021
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Golf can be good for you

We all are aware of golf due to its popularity. It's known as an activity of leisure and well-received worldwide. Like other sports, golf can be good for health. In your leisure time, along with having fun, you can certainly maintain your health by playing golf as it is played in a huge outdoor area covering 30 to 200 acres which requires a certain amount of strength and stamina.

Exactly like golf, there is a game called Putterball for both children and adults. This game is developed for those who are keen on golf and want to play in their small backyard. A putterball set includes all the equipment like golf. Isn't it cool? Now playing golf at your convenience is easy and healthy.

Burns calories

As golf requires covering huge spaces as large as 30 to 200 acres that means a lot of walking. And we know walking does help in burning calories. In golf, walking at least an average course would be between 3 to 5 miles. Choosing to carry your own clubs will involve more walking, swinging, and carrying allowing players to burn even more calories. In one single game, the golfer can burn up to 1000 calories.

Improves Heart Rate

Playing golf can be a good exercise for the heart. As mentioned above golf helps in burning calories, carrying, walking, and swinging will help improve heart rate keeping it engaged in smooth pumping and enhancing blood flow. Naturally, it reduces excess cholesterol and helps in reducing the risk of heart diseases. As golf involves a lot of activities, by playing golf often, people can seriously reduce the effective amount of cholesterol and can stay healthy for longer.

Improves Vision

It is understandable that playing golf needs a clear and focused vision where the player has to keep an eye on the white little ball that may be far away. Golfers hone in on tiny and neat targets from long ranges even when the ball is far away. Before their strike or swing, golfers are exemplified with the opportunity to analyze the longing of their intuition while enriching hand-eye coordination. By this, playing golf helps in sharpening your vision and in focus. 

Good for brain

Not only does golf improves heart rate and vision but it also helps in strengthening the brain. As heart rate rises, blood flow rises which helps the brain-stimulating and enhancing nerve cells helping delay mental diseases like dementia. Not just the brain, golf also helps in boosting self-esteem and confidence with rivalry and competition, not just against others but with themselves too. This overall requires cognitive enthusiasm in calculating scores, refining strategy, and facilitating hand-eye coordination which generates the brain in logical function.

Reduces Stress

Golf requires huge outside space for playing and involves like-minded people with whom one can interact and can share their opinion or interest which is an extraordinary way to overlook one's troubles. The satisfaction of walking and playing in open natural surroundings and spending time with companions creates a good mood and releases endorphins, a mood intensifying chemical in our brain making us relaxed and happier.

Enhance better sleep

As you play golf your body indulges in an exercise like carrying, walking and swinging and thus make you tired. Your tired body helps you get good sleep and makes you feel good the next morning.

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