How many miles does an average person walk on an average sized golf course?
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 at
6:06 am
Im just curious and would like to know how many miles does one walk while playing golf on an average sized golf course. Has anyone used a pedometer while playing. (I think thats the name of the thing that measures your steps). Just curious…
Asked by:Brew Crew
Tagged with: Many Miles • Pedometer
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I believe the average golf course is over 6000 yards. Have fun.
I used one a pedometer a few years ago. It measured about 15,000 steps, which works out to about 6 or 7 miles.
The course is usually about 6500 to 7000 yards, which works out to 3.5 to 4 miles. But that only measures from the tee to the middle of the green, right down the center of the fairway.
In real life, most players walk to the left or right; you sometimes have to walk past the green; you’ll walk ahead to look over your next shot. You’ll almost never walk a straight line down the middle of the fairway.
In addition to all that, you have to walk from the green to the next tee area. That can easily be anywhere from 50 to 200 yards, which could add more than a mile to your total walking distance.
John’s answer is very accurate and true to my own experiences. A 6,500 yard course, with all of the side to side variation required to find your ball equals about five miles of walking. Then, add the distance from green to tee box into the equation. One HUGE variable is whether or not it is a course laid out through a residential area or on a single tract of land. Residential courses are set up so that the mximum number of people have ‘golf course property’, so there often will be only one or two holes per block, This can lead to walks as long as one-quarter mile from one green to the next tee box. This can easily add a mile or more to the distance walked for no real reason. That is why many of these types of courses require carts. So I would say the average course would require about seven miles for one 18-hole round.
Average, I presume an average player walks about 8000 yards which is 5 miles. 5 miles includes the length of the course, the zig-zagging looking for balls and walking between greens to the next tees.
Amazingly they say you only expense about 500 calories in that 4 1/2hrs workout.
i’d say about 5 miles!! you’d be surprised…