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Originally Posted by FlamesAllTheWay
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.
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My answer today is the same as it was then . . . . . I've golfed 36 holes and I've run a marathon and any comparison of the physical effort required for the two is absolutely ludicrous.
A fat fata can walk/golf 36 holes in a row with reasonable competence but might not get past the five km mark on a 42 km marathon without starting to walk. But the marathoner can also walk/golf those 36 holes without much stress at all too.
That's the reality.
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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?
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Really?
You want to compare the relative athleticism, and all of the training required to achieve their elite status, of Usain Bolt with that of Tiger Woods?
Good luck with that.
Let's have a belly laugh!!!
Cowperson