Want To Live Longer? Play Golf

Based on data from 300,000 Swedish golfers, a researcher at the Karolinska Institute has found out that people who play golf can expect to live 5 years longer.

Golfers have a lower death rate than non-golfers, with the effect being greater for golfers from blue-collar professions than for those from white-collar, and the lowest rates are found in the group of players with the lowest handicap. A perfect excuse to play more…

Article: ‘Golf – a game of life and death. Reduced mortality in Swedish golf players’, B. Farahmand, G. Broman, U. De Faire, D. Vågerö & A. Ahlbom, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 30 May 2008.