{"id":5492,"date":"2021-01-19T12:26:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=5492"},"modified":"2021-03-15T19:06:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T02:06:35","slug":"does-playing-golf-prolong-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/does-playing-golf-prolong-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Playing Golf Prolong Your Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study published in the <em>Scandinavian Journal of Medicine &#038; Science in Sports<\/em> concluded that playing golf regularly may increase your life expectancy by five years. <\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s not a recent article, it came out in 2008. But it caught someone&#8217;s attention recently. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the full article is available only for a price, and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/j.1600-0838.2008.00814.x\">buy access if you want to here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1600-0838.2008.00814.x\">study&#8217;s abstract is here<\/a>, but you have to have some experience reading abstracts to make sense of it. <\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/05\/080530095413.htm\">a discussion of the article here<\/a>, and that should be all you really need to read.<\/p>\n<p>The study did mention the full effect of prolonging life occurs in low handicap golfers, which should give all of us a new incentive to get better.<\/p>\n<p>So you see, all long I have been adding add years to your life and you never knew it. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome! Now start practicing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine &#038; Science in Sports concluded that playing golf regularly may increase your life expectancy by five years. Actually, it&#8217;s not a recent article, it came out in 2008. But it caught someone&#8217;s attention recently. Unfortunately, the full article is available only for a price, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/does-playing-golf-prolong-your-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does Playing Golf Prolong Your Life?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1qA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5492"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5501,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}