Good old common sense knows the health benefits of walking as a form of exercise. Some of these benefits include reducing the risk of heart disease, stroke and some forms of cancer, lowering blood pressure, reducing high cholesterol, reducing body fat to help control weight and enhance your mental well being just to name a few.

Walking the course in some fashion is no different than walking in a park other than a sport is played along the way. In many cases where the golf course is packed, walking will actually take the same amount of time as riding in the cart. For 18-holes, one will walk approximately 4 to 5 miles including the distances meandering across the fairways, on and around the green to line up a putt and going from the green to the next hole. For that amount of walking, one is only looking at 4 hours and 15 minute to 4 and one half hours to complete the round on average. This is not a torrid pace, but still you can lose easily 400 calories in the meantime.