Golfing for Doctors
Abstract
Recent research in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports has shown that the death rate for golfers is 40 percent lower than other people, which corresponds to a 5 year increase in life expectancy. The golfers with the lowest handicaps are the safest. I am not so sure about this. I am certain that most golfers feel the opposite: that the stress of the game must surely shorten one’s life not lengthen it. The British journalist A A Gill described golf as “a game of ceaseless torment, with brief flashes of possible contentment that are cruel illusions”.
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