{"id":398,"date":"2010-10-17T00:15:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T05:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnstrawn.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2010-10-17T00:15:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T05:15:49","slug":"news-flash-golf-is-good-for-you-if-you-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/golf\/398\/news-flash-golf-is-good-for-you-if-you-walk","title":{"rendered":"News Flash: Golf is GOOD for You (IF You Walk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every golfer knows that deep down, at its very essence, golf was designed to drive you crazy.\u00a0 Golf is the antidote to contentment.\u00a0 The best players in the world will tear their swings apart in hope of improvement, even at the risk of losing the proficiency that allowed them to achieve preeminence in the first place.\u00a0 Remember David Duval?\u00a0 Padraig Harrington, after his three majors?\u00a0 Tiger Woods, now heading into his third or fourth swing resuscitation?<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_399\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/10\/120px-Justin_timberlake_golfing1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-399\" title=\"120px-Justin_timberlake_golfing[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/10\/120px-Justin_timberlake_golfing1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Timberlake Preparing for Retirement<\/p><\/div>But now there\u2019s evidence that playing even mediocre golf can protect you from dementia if you walk the course while you\u2019re playing.\u00a0 This is a pretty attractive and not insignificant benefit.\u00a0 In an article in the <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Keep Walking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/health\/index.ssf\/2010\/10\/forget_thinner_thighs_new_stud.html\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Oregonian<\/a>, reporter Julie Sullivan described the results of an investigation by \u201cResearchers at the University of Pittsburgh who studied people in their mid-60s over 13 years found that those who walked six to nine miles a week &#8212; about a mile a day &#8212; had more gray matter and less memory loss than their peers. Gray matter is the part of the brain involved in muscle control, seeing, speaking, hearing and memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_400\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/10\/450px-Golf_Cart_drive1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-400\" title=\"450px-Golf_Cart_drive[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/10\/450px-Golf_Cart_drive1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Road to Senility<\/p><\/div>These were not golfers\u2019 brains, so perhaps there is some selection bias at work, but it\u2019s likely that all the walking we golfers do could, beyond the irritations accompanying missed putts and the occasional shank, help keep us mentally fit.\u00a0 So get out of those buggies and step into a wise old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every golfer knows that deep down, at its very essence, golf was designed to drive you crazy.\u00a0 Golf is the&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/golf\/398\/news-flash-golf-is-good-for-you-if-you-walk\" title=\"ReadNews Flash: Golf is GOOD for You (IF You Walk)\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-lifestyle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/10\/120px-Justin_timberlake_golfing1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}