Step count from riding golf

DonM · 2022-09-22T20:15:21+00:00

I often keep my phone in my pocket while golfing in order to get step counts. It’s amazing how many steps you get even in a cart/ buggy.

Sneakylong

I walked for over 10 years three times a week when I was a member and one of the guys had a pedometer. He said he walked between 6 and 7 miles a round. Of course it depends how you’re playing that day. If you’re playing army golf then it could be more. Lol

Now that we ride one of the guys has a watch that keeps track of his steps. He usually walks between 6000 and 7000 steps. But he’s a little fella and takes small steps. Lol

I’m not an exercise guy. Exercise has to be a byproduct of an activity / sport like golf. So walking 4 to 5 miles a week playing golf is exercise I wouldn’t get otherwise.

LBlack14

I couldn't play golf with a phone in my pocket.

Typhoon

LBlack14 I couldn't play golf with a phone in my pocket

Me either. Just a divot fork and a couple tees... noting else.

LogicalOne

Typhoon LBlack14

For actually talking like either of you are golfers (neither of you play anymore!)….🤨

GET OUT AND PLAY!!!! 😊

DonM

LBlack14 I couldn't play golf with a phone in my pocket

Used to be true for me too.

Typhoon

LogicalOne For actually talking like either of you are golfers (neither of you play anymore!)….🤨

GET OUT AND PLAY!!!!

Hahahahaha!!!!!!! Good Point!!! I should have put MYSELF on the list !!!!!

rsvman2

Sounds like somebody hasn't learned to always hit their shots close to the cart path.

The other thing that might cut down on the step count a little would be to quit hitting the ball out of one green side bunker all the way into the bunker on the other side. 🤪

Spartan

I don't like having a phone in my pocket when I play golf. My watch keeps track of my steps.

DonM

Spartan I cannot stand wearing a watch while golfing.
🙂 but true.

Rickochet

DonM Spartan I cannot stand wearing a watch while golfing.
🙂 but true.

A bud of mine hated wearing a watch period. I talked him into a Bushnell GPS watch and he never even noticed it once he started playing with it.

KCee

Rickochet Yeah I get bothered more by my wedding ring than the watch...off the course too 🤣 I forget to charge the watch every now and then and then I keep glancing at my wrist for a yardage.

My 5th year at the same course so I probably don't need it any more. To be honest it's main using is giving my playing partners a yardage even though they have been at the course the same amount of time lol

mulegolf

Rickochet A bud of mine hated wearing a watch period. I talked him into a Bushnell GPS watch and he never even noticed it once he started playing with it.

Same thing happened with me. I never wear a watch anymore. If I need to know what time it is, I look at my phone.
Then I got a Garmin GPS watch. It felt a little weird at first but now I don't even notice it's on my wrist unless I look to see
how far away the green or a layup yardage is.

LBlack14

I don't need anything to tell me how many steps I take, my body tells me. Geezus, is everyone turning weird wolf, in this country o what??

DonM

LBlack14 I don’t need Oakley sunglasses.

Typhoon

The thing with the watch is it’s assumes when you walk you also swing your arms in sequence. So that’s how it tracks “steps”. Driving a cart you are not moving your legs but are constantly moving your arms. Same with swinging a club.

johnnydoom

KCee Totally off topic now, but when I first started golfing one of my friends would always take his wedding ring off and put it in his pocket. After the round, but still walking in off the course, he went into his pocket for something and his wedding ring popped out without him noticing. Back in the clubhouse having a beer, he went to retrieve his ring to put it on and it was gone. He remembered about where we were the last time he went into the pocket and we went back there and started searching through the grass (short rough). After about 10 - 15 minutes, and by the sheerest of luck, I caught a little glint from the sun shining on it through the grass and dug it out of the grass. We were about to give up looking and he thought he was going to get killed that night. "Yeah, sure. Out golfing with your buddies after work."

Walterjn

I haven't worn a ring or watch for many years. One of my girlfriends had decided that I needed to have a silver ring or two, so she bought a few for me. They were the inexpensive silver Indian jewelry ones. All silver, turquoise and opal. Those have all since disappeared, and good luck finding anything of any decent quality anymore.
Watches, came off permanently when I was working at a parts store. I had a few very close calls, and actually clipped the crystal with the flywheel grinder. So no more watches for me. The one I clipped with the grinder is buried in a drawer somewhere...
Most of the time I have my phone. I just don't want to be pulling it out to check yardages. I keep the mk1, mod1 eyeball up to date.

darpar

On my piece of crap, hard to charge Shit Bit Senseless watch, just moving my arms
will add to the step count while riding in a cart.

KCee

I don't even usually look at step count. When I walk 18 at my course, I know I got some good exercise because it's hilly AF and I am hitting the ball all over the place.

What I hate about the watch is when we're hanging out on the patio after with lunch and a few beers the watch beeps loudly and I look at it thinking I forgot to turn the GPS off, but it says "MOVE!". WTF? I didn't walk enough for you?! The damn thing wants me to get more exercise! It's got a fat shaming mode or something POS.

Typhoon

KCee What I hate about the watch is when we're hanging out on the patio after with lunch and a few beers the watch beeps loudly and I look at it thinking I forgot to turn the GPS off, but it says "MOVE!". WTF?

It’s telling you to drink faster. The way the watch works too is it’ll convert how many beers you drank to “miles walking “

scotts33

Step counters apps on cell phones are totally inaccurate. They're for folks that want to think they are doing something rather than nothing at all. ☺ The only thing they are good for is to track yourself one time to the next and see how much difference. GPS activated activity trackers or cell phones using apps like MapMyWalk, MapMyRun, bicycling with MapMyRide measure distance that is accurate and the real way to know along with gait to really know how much distance you are walking and what rate.

Real pedometers are the only way to count steps. 😉

DonM

scotts33 I’m sure that’s true. I apply a big margin of error. 😑

Four of us walk a couple of miles a few mornings a week, and at the end we all have different readings by quite a bit.