Tire on back 9

Take up Bowls or something. Anybody that cannot do a round of golf without feeling tired or aching has either fitness or health issues or both. Quick bite to eat before the round and a bottle of water during and that should be it
 
Interesting to see that people say about you should not need anything on the course. All I will say is you see the tour pros eating fruit and cereal bars along with plenty of water every round. Anyone who says you should not need anything while on the course should maybe look at what the pros do.

Take my normal Saturday morning medal. Get up at 8:00 and have some breakfast. Get to club at 9 to hit some balls on the range and get ready to play. Tee off at 10 and leave the course at sometime getting towards 2. So that is 6 hours without eating. They say the healthiest way to is have little and often.
 
I wonder that no-one else has challenged the basic premise of the OP? For my part I generally don't have any bother keeping going on the back 9. I need something to get me started on the first nine.
 
Did I really dream that I managed to play 1,000's of rounds of golf without the aid of any food or drink.

Perhaps it was because golf was a sport, I was fit, I ate healthy food and played about 99% of those rounds in under 3 hours.
 
If you're hungry, eat something, but lets not kid ourselves it is needed or that it will prevent tiredness. As for all this nonsense about slow release carbs and energy drinks, it's a round of golf for goodness sake.
 
I do pass a 24 hour burger place beginning with M, and have taken to munching a couple of cheeseburgers at 6:30 in the morning on the way to the course :D
 
HawkeyeMS said:
If you're hungry, eat something, but lets not kid ourselves it is needed or that it will prevent tiredness. As for all this nonsense about slow release carbs and energy drinks, it's a round of golf for goodness sake.
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I was waiting for snelly to pitch up!! :o

^^ this is true. Eat what you want, drink what you want, but unless you've got an underlying medical condition a poor back 9 isn't related to diet or fitness, it's down to ability. :thup:

I'd be disappointed to take more than 3 1/2 hours for a medal round, I'd expect to eat before and afterwards, especially as if I go to the halfway hut I'm gonna get reported:confused:
 
I'm the first to admit I'm very close to the bottom of the GM Forum fitness league. Overweight, dodgy knees and ankle, golf is the only "real" excercise that I do. I don't eat well etc etc.

I can do 18 with ease.

The only thing that stops me doing more is the state my right ankle will be in the next day - the size of a Grapefruit, making me a tad immobile...

If I can do it.....
 
I always eat and drink during a game. I'm the same no matter what I'm doing. Be it at work, out on my bike, lying on the settee watching a film or playing football. I regularly drink and eat throughout the day. just because I'm playing golf shouldn't make a difference. Eating balanced meals throughout the day will keep your mind and body on top without the low points of feeling like a quick hit of lucozade is needed.
If people are looking to get fit, don't bother with running or swimming. Well, not a gentle 6 mile jog or 1 mile paddle. 45 mins high intensity work will see your body burning calories for up to 72 hours. 3 45 minute sessions a week will turn you around massively after a few weeks.
 
:) @ therod

This gets discussed periodically and the right answer is that you definitely don't need to eat or drink anything to play a good round of golf but if you want to and think it helps then do so. In a wider context, you don't even need to be fit to be a superb golfer, e.g. Craig Stadler and similar sized pros.

That said, if you are under 29 years of age and consequently, have grown up in an age of powerful marketing and pseudo-science, forced upon us across a multi-channel media, then the obvious answer is that isotonic drinks and energy bars are basic essentials when it comes to sporting excellence and if you don't stuff your face and drink a litre of water during a round of golf then you are certifiably insane. And a biometric, magnetic energy bracelet makes them all taste better too.
 
I play on a pretty undulating course which reaches the low point in altitude at the 14th green. After that it's two long par 5,s and then a sustained climb through 17 and 18 up to the clubhouse. In other words, you hit the hard work just as your batteries are starting to run down. Invested in an electric trolley which has made all the difference.
 
I don't agree with all this eating on the course myself, its a gentle stroll for 3 hours not proper exercise.

if you went out cloths shopping with the Mrs, would you be taking energy bars, Bananas and water with you ?

again this would be far more stressful, energy sapping and take longer.... but you wouldn't would you?

;):):)
 
patricks148 said:
I don't agree with all this eating on the course myself, its a gentle stroll for 3 hours not proper exercise.

if you went out cloths shopping with the Mrs, would you be taking energy bars, Bananas and water with you ?

again this would be far more stressful, energy sapping and take longer.... but you wouldn't would you?

;):):)
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Like. :)

If I went clothes shopping with my wife, I think I would take a hip flask.

I played with two mates on Friday afternoon at Devils Dyke GC who are off 1 and 3. We were around in 3 hours despite the windy and rainy (tiring, energy sapping!) weather and the 1 handicapper birdied 5 of the last 7 holes. He did not have to eat anything on the way round to get his strength back for this and is just a normal boke in his mid-40's who can play golf quite well.
 
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patricks148 said:
I don't agree with all this eating on the course myself, its a gentle stroll for 3 hours not proper exercise.

if you went out cloths shopping with the Mrs, would you be taking energy bars, Bananas and water with you ?

again this would be far more stressful, energy sapping and take longer.... but you wouldn't would you?

;):):)
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sexist :smirk:


However, clothes and general shopping trips always have lunch/coffee breaks included, it would be rude not to.


P.S I do get your point though and I usually take absolutely nadda with me, occasionally some water and I'm ancient!:mmm:
 
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Snelly said:
Like. :)

If I went clothes shopping with my wife, I think I would take a hip flask.

I played with two mates on Friday afternoon at Devils Dyke GC who are off 1 and 3. We were around in 3 hours despite the windy and rainy (tiring, energy sapping!) weather and the 1 handicapper birdied 5 of the last 7 holes. He did not have to eat anything on the way round to get his strength back for this and is just a normal boke in his mid-40's who can play golf quite well.
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Unfortunately my bad back stops me going out shopping, although it is fine for carrying a bag round 18 holes.:whistle:
 
evahakool said:
Sorry to be so negative ,but post round recovery, :confused: it's only a walk for 3-4hours not a marathon :)

I'am knocking on 60 have a decent breakfast before a game, then a few swigs of water during a round and that's it.
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Sadly, I'm serious. I ache a LOT after a round of golf. I played 16 yesterday before I had to go home (the car was needed for other things otherwise I'd have finished the round even in the failing light of 4.15pm) and I'm still aching today.

I have a dodgy back, which doesn't help, but primarily I'm just out of shape after 48 years of very little in the way of aerobic activity. So, after a round of golf my muscles stiffen up a lot, not so much that I can't move at all, but more that I have to walk a few yards before I can walk normally. Sometimes this applies even a couple of days afterwards, depending on how flat the course is.

Keeping up my protein and liquids levels has helped minimise this.
 
The main thing even when it is just a "walk" is to keep hydrated - take on plenty of fluids. Energy bars add sugar which does increase energy levels a little
 
jpjeffery said:
Sadly, I'm serious. I ache a LOT after a round of golf. I played 16 yesterday before I had to go home (the car was needed for other things otherwise I'd have finished the round even in the failing light of 4.15pm) and I'm still aching today.

I have a dodgy back, which doesn't help, but primarily I'm just out of shape after 48 years of very little in the way of aerobic activity. So, after a round of golf my muscles stiffen up a lot, not so much that I can't move at all, but more that I have to walk a few yards before I can walk normally. Sometimes this applies even a couple of days afterwards, depending on how flat the course is.

Keeping up my protein and liquids levels has helped minimise this.
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Sorry to hear you suffer so much after a round of golf, and I apologise if my post seemed flippant , but I think you are probebly in a minority and IMO you don't need a lot to drink and eat during a 3/4 hour stroll.

Good luck with your golf .
 
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