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How Far Do You Walk During a Round of Golf?

If you add in all the stalking of putts, walking around tee boxes, detours to rough, wandering up and down and around searching for balls etc etc its very easy to add a couple of miles to the length of a course. A mile is only 4 par 4's back to back....ish.....
 
I measured this for the first time the other day (new Garmin G6 put into use!). It was on my trolley, so not quite as far as I walked, as I tend not to take my trolley on the greens with me. It measured 4.4 miles, off a shortish (winter tees) 5700 yard course.
 
Lump said:
Thats nigh on 12k…
I have my iPhone ihealth on today during the round. Played a full 18 on a similar length course today and only walked 8k. (and 25 flights on stairs)You must have really long walks between holes.
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We have a road to cross after the 10th and again after the 13th so that probably accounts for a couple of hundred yards. I do pace around the greens quite a lot so that all adds up too.
 
Lump said:
Thats nigh on 12k…
I have my iPhone ihealth on today during the round. Played a full 18 on a similar length course today and only walked 8k. (and 25 flights on stairs)You must have really long walks between holes.
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I would say 8k or 5 miles is about right for most courses. Walking 12k when playing off 3.5 doesn't sound right.......
 
The layout of the course will play a huge part in these figures because isn't the yardage to the greens how the crow flies, so a 380yd dogleg is more likely to be well in excess of 400yds+ when not taking out corners and using the dog legged fairways? Also some greens to tees are a silly walk crossing into totally different areas across roads and I've come across loads of good distances between the 9th green and 10th tees, Forest of Arden for example, crossing the fairway to look for a PP's ball, looking at your ball from behind & front on the green, walking up to tend the flag and then return to your ball and the list goes on! So, just looking at a courses 6250yds (3.55 miles) means squat in the grand scheme of things IMO.
 
Lump said:
You must have really long walks between holes.
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Just done a quick, and relatively inaccurate, measure on GoogleEarth and we have a walk of around 1600 yards of walking between greens and tees......add in walking to the first and back to the clubhouse from 18 and there's an extra mile.
So we have 4 1/2 miles as a minimum - add in the extras (and, let's face it, nobody walks in an exact straight line around a course) and another couple of miles isn't unrealistic at all.
If your ball is on one side of the green and the exit is on the other, by the time you've placed your bag, walked across, had a couple of putts and then back to your bag, that's another 100 yards possibly...very easy to add a mile via the greens.
 
I use the Hole 19 App on my iPhone for scoring my rounds, what I discovered yesterday was there is a "Fitness" function which tracks how far you've walked and also a rough estimate of calories burned. Quite interesting, only tried it on Friday morning when I did a quick 9 Holes on my local Par 3. So yet to see what the data is like from a full 18 Holes.
 
Fish said:
The layout of the course will play a huge part in these figures because isn't the yardage to the greens how the crow flies, so a 380yd dogleg is more likely to be well in excess of 400yds+ when not taking out corners and using the dog legged fairways?
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On a gps, yes. On a scorecard, no. Hole length is measured along the fairway to a centre point at a dog leg from memory. Surprised in you're line of work you hadn't twigged that....sounds like you've a few hundred holes to hastily remeasure ;-)
 
shortstuff said:
I would say 8k or 5 miles is about right for most courses. Walking 12k when playing off 3.5 doesn't sound right.......
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Used my trolley too, so that will add distance travelled as you cannot just march across the greens like you can when carrying. Especially when you miss the green on the wrong side from where the next tee is. Probably also walked an extra 200 yards looking for a FC ball that was nowhere near where mine was.
 
the smiling assassin said:
On a gps, yes. On a scorecard, no. Hole length is measured along the fairway to a centre point at a dog leg from memory. Surprised in you're line of work you hadn't twigged that....sounds like you've a few hundred holes to hastily remeasure ;-)
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As you state, the GPS always knows where it is so the yardage is to the green or bunker or any other hazard as the crow flies, if I do a fairway target I walk up to an area and zapp it, the card yardage displayed doesn't come into it as were not measuring the course or hole per se, just distances to features :smirk:

How many people look at the card for yardages anyway, I glance at it for the index that's all, everything else is off the GPS, I might at times glance at the stone on the tee box.
 
18 holes 8.2 miles walked, which includes probably a mile wandering around the tee box waiting to tee of. I use a fitbit and it seems quite,accurate also tells me I burnt 1500 calories so can afford a beer ��!!
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This is interesting. I didn't think it'd be much more than 3 and a half miles round our 6000yd course.

I've put a walking GPS app on the phone and will see how much further it is next Saturday.

Golf is a sport!!!!! :)
 
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