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Originally Posted by Cowperson
One of our esteemed members, himself looking to become a golf pro I believe, a few years ago was trying to argue that playing 36 holes of golf was the equivalent of running a marathon. That was a real hoot.
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He's not really that far off though:
http://golf.about.com/od/fitnessheal...lfphysical.htm
Walking 9 holes either carrying your clubs or using a push cart will burn around 720 calories. So 36 holes of golf will burn roughly 2900 calories. That's rpretty much the same amount someone running a 26 mile marathon would burn. Granted, the time frames are different, but that's the nature of each.
My question for you is what is your criteria for defining a sport? You say athleticism, I broke that down about 3 pages back in this thread using simply dictionary definitions and found that golf is technically defined as a sport through that high level of hand-eye coordination, or physical dexterity, you speak of (among other things).
Is a 100m dash, where a person only burns 5 calories, more of a sport than golf, where a person burns hundreds of more calories than that?