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How Many Calories Do I Burn Playing Golf?
How many calories do I burn playing golf? is the fifth most asked golf question on Ask.Com
How many calories a person burns while playing golf depends on three factors. One is body weight, as larger people burn more calories than their smaller counterparts. A second factor is how much time is spent playing golf, and the third aspect has to do with how active that person is on the range. A person who weighs 150 pounds and plays golf for two hours while he is carrying his clubs will burn 750 calories. A heavier person, weighing 200 pounds, will burn even more. During a two hour golf game, a 200-pound person carrying his golf clubs will burn 1,000 calories.
Sounds about right to me, but I’ll note that the number of people carrying their clubs out there is pretty small.
It may also be worth noting that, depending upon the course, a walker covers somewhere between three and five miles in a round. Of course, that’s assuming that you play straight down the middle. I cover much, much more ground.
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This is very nice to know that one about this is the 5th most searched..
Posted by SEO Marketing on 07/27
How much did I burn yesterday? I rode 18, total round time 2:20, temperature 103 degrees, felt like 115.
Posted by martin on 07/27
Hmmm…I wonder if the “calories burned” figures include the calories one would use through normal bodily activities (breathing, heart beating, etc…) or if the figure is a net amount that represents the difference between an active golfer and a person involved in no physical activity? Walking & carrying 18 is fairly demanding but it is hard to imagine the net caloric burn is 1,500 calories. If it is that high, I should not be suffering from Dunlap’s Disease (when one’s stomach dun laps over one’s belt).
Posted by bkuehn1952 on 07/27
I have heard multiple places that 18 hole round carrying is north of 1500 calories. I think that walking with a cart is north of 1200 calories.
The biggest problem for me is trying to avoid making up for it in one meal, when I walk & carry 18 I am ravenous.
Posted by martin on 07/27
My rule of thumb, derived from a GPS gizmo I use, is that just the walking burns about 100 cal./mile. Last night, on a 6200 yard course (from the whites), I walked a total of 6.2 miles. This doesn’t account for my using a push-cart, which would increase the burn-rate, and carrying would raise it still more. I don’t think that swinging the club(s) (waaaay too many times last night) would be a significant factor.
Posted by Bruce E on 07/28
Swinging the club would be some factor, but the other big factor between walking 6.2 miles and walking 6.2 miles while playing golf is -
walking 6.2 miles probably takes about 90 minutes at 4 mph.
If you are playing golf for that 6.2 miles, you are also standing for an additional 1 hour to 2.5 hours. You are engaging muscles during standing and especially swinging - your heartrate does increase in anger and/or excitement more than it does in walking.
One of our courses clocks in at right about 6.2 miles as well - that is the one with some slopes. The flat course is the one with multiple neighborhoods and street crossings, and it probably is right around 8 miles. The only signifcant hill to speak of was the slope up to the 18th green. That is a killer! A friend named the last 3 holes, a very long walk with LONG green to tee walks - he named it Heartbreak Ridge. I renamed it Coronary Bypass.
Posted by martin on 07/28
Thankfully, they have swapped back and front on that course. Having the long portion and that hill on the front makes the course much more enjoyable when walking.
Posted by martin on 07/28
A 2 hour golf game?????? You have got to be kidding.
Posted by Dick on 07/31
Either they’re playing speed-golf, or just playing 9 holes.
Posted by Bruce E on 07/31
The 2:20 round was by myself with a couple holes where I had to wait before I could play through another group. If I wasn’t held up I would probably play in 1:45 on that course. It isn’t speed golf (as that game is defined) - I don’t pull flags for the first putt if I am more than about 5 yards away, that is the only true time saver.
Posted by martin on 08/01
I’m absolutely certain that on uncrowded fall days, at one of our local courses (Green Oaks), that I have played in well under three hours. I, too, don’t pull pins when I play alone.
Posted by The Original Golf Blogger on 08/01
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