The average golfer walks between 7 to 8 miles depending on several factors. Length of the course plus how far apart the greens are from the next tees. Surprisingly if a golfer uses a mechanical golf cart the amount of walking is higher than you’d think—about 3–3.5 miles.
About 2.1k steps per mile for me. That results in about 8 miles of walking for 18 holes while pushing my 3 wheel golf cart. If you walk and carry your bag, the numbers should be lower, but add in the higher calories expended by carrying the bag.
I figure that 4k was just walking around home and such, so that is about 17k of steps on the golf course. About 2.1k steps per mile for me. That results in about 8 miles of walking for 18 holes while pushing my 3 wheel golf cart.
The average distance walked was 6.6 miles, or a distance 69% greater than the scorecard yardage alone. The shortest distance walked was 5.7 miles, or a distance 47% greater than the scorecard yardage alone. The longest distance walked was 7.8 miles, or precisely double the scorecard’s yardage!
Walking golf is a great exercise for children and adults who love playing this invigorating sport. People who forgo the golf carts and hoof it on foot can find themselves burning off between 1,000 to 1,500 calories when playing all 18-holes. You can burn off more calories by carrying your clubs.
Walking the golf course is considered a great form of exercise. The typical golfer will walk between 4 and 6 miles during the round, taking nearly 10,000 steps (depending on his or her stride length), and burn up to 900 calories.
The World Golf Foundation estimates that golfers who walk an 18-hole course clock about 5 miles and burn up to 2,000 calories. But here's the rub: About two-thirds of golf in the U.S. is played in motorized carts. Some resorts and private courses even restrict walking and require carts.
A typical round of 18 holes stretches up to four miles, or more in some cases and allows the golfer to get in over 10,000 steps. Walking the course can help you maintain a healthy weight and avoid all of the complications that go along with weight gain, such as heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
To precisely measure how far you walk during a round of golf, wear a pedometer, which will measure how many steps you take. Measuring how many steps you take from the moment you get out of your car to the moment you get back into it will give you a precise accounting of how far you walked during that round of golf.
How Far Is Walking 18 Holes? Play a round of regulation 18-hole golf on most courses and you’ll walk anywhere between 3 and 6 miles, depending on the length of the course, how much walking you do before and after your game, and how often you have to wander off course in search of lost balls.
Typically, walking 1,000 steps is equal to walking about a half a mile. Walking 7,000 steps during a round of golf is equal to walking 3.5 miles.
A regulation 18-hole golf course should be between 6,200 and 7,000 yards. To calculate how many miles you walk from the first tee to the 18th tee, multiply the number of yards by three (the number of feet in a yard) and then divide the result by 5,280 (the number of feet in a mile). For example, a 6,500-yard golf course is equal to 19,500 feet ...
The study concluded that golfers who walk 36 holes a week will burn around 2,900 calories per week. The threshold of 2,500 calories burned in a week is an important one: According to an Associated Press article about the study, "studies have shown that those who burn 2,500 calories a week improve their overall health by lowering their risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer."
But how golfers get around the course has a large impact on miles walked and calories burned. A golfer walking, rather than riding, can burn nearly 3,000 calories a week by playing 36 holes.
To conduct his study, Wolkodoff recruited eight amateur golfers, all men, with ages ranging from 26 to 61 and handicaps ranging from 2 to 17. The volunteers were fitted with various sensors and measuring equipment, and then each played the front nine of a hilly suburban Denver golf course several times over the study period.
Golfers who walk also tend to score better than those who ride in a cart or carry their own bag. The scientist who conducted the study is Neil Wolkodoff, who, in 2009 at the time of the study, was director of the Rose Center for Health and Sports Sciences in Denver, Colo.
These are the golfers' average scores during the study for each of the different means of transporting the golf bag: Many golf purists ar gue that walking the golf course is not only better for your health ( no doubt about that), but also better for your score.
We already knew that golf requires coordination, concentration, and, yes, physical effort, to play successfully. But it's always nice to have an expert verify those beliefs. Particularly when the study in question revealed some interesting and very specific conclusions about the value of golf as exercise — how many miles are walked, ...
This study certainly bolsters that argument. Walking the course with a push cart or with a caddie both produced lower average scores than riding in a cart. Walking while carrying one's own bag yielded the highest average scores, however, which likely has to do with the extra physical exertion required. That causes the golfer to tire more quickly and also, study leader Wolkodoff surmises, increases instances of lactic acid build-up in the muscles. When lactic acid increases, fine motor skills decrease, and fine motor skills are what are required for the precise motions of the golf swing.
So I think realistically six miles or more is a good approximation of the distance walked in a normal round of golf.
If you walk and carry your bag, the numb. Continue Reading. A golf course averages about 6500 yards. For the sake of math, let's make that 6800. There 1720 yards per mile. That results in 4 miles of straight line walking. Add in no one walks a straight line, and the numbers go up.
Augusta National Golf course is 7435 yards long. That is 4.22 miles. There are several walks between greens & tees which will add up to at least 400 yards, that is another .22 of a mile. There is also the arguement of how accurate the players are tee to green.
Interesting question - and Steven Pick has it about right. On a typical course that plays only 6000 yards or so in accumulated yardage from the regular tees, not uncommon, just the lengths of the holes account for about 3.5 miles. But on most holes, one doesn’t walk directly from the tee box to the green, so you walk farther than the hole measures - and often that it much farther depending on the contour of the hole, whether there is a hazard you have to go around, and then - of course - whether you hit the ball where you wanted to.
Therefore, if an “average golfer” plays Augusta from the championship tees (course rated at 78.1), forget about scoring 115, or walking 5.275 miles. Chances are, you could cover 8/9 miles walking Augusta with that “average score”.
Augusta National was designed by Bobby Jones and Alistair Mckenzie. From the championship tees, there are 7,475 yards to navigate to complete a round. That equates to 4.22 miles (on a straight line). Course rating from there is 78.1. (Tough course!)
It would take roughly 2.5 hours to walk 10km (6 miles rounded up) Based on my own exercise I'm going to estimate that you would burn 375kcal per hour walking at this speed, meaning the total journey would burn approx 940kcal. Do that for 30 days then you have a total of 28,200kcal burned.
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First on the agenda was Pinehurst No. 2 , which despite its name ranks No. 1 in North Carolina on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list for public-access layouts. No. 2 has been home to three previous U.S. Opens with several more on its schedule, and it ranks No. 16 among all Classic Courses constructed in the United States before 1960. Having been built in an era before golf carts whisked players along the course, it was the perfect testing ground for my golf spikes and my Fitbit.
It hasn’t been home to any U.S. Opens, and on the scorecard Mid Pines tops out at 6,732 yard s compared to No. 2’s 7,588 yards.
No. 2 is a hard golf course but an easy walk. Most of the tees are situated fairly close to the previous green, and there’s really only one spot where players must double back to a tee box – leaving No. 9 green, players must about-face and walk up a hill to start the back nine. It was proving to be a perfect test for counting steps without wasting any.