Golf - Great exercise

I've got one of those Nokia E71 phones that does email and satnav and so on. It's great, and I found a little utility on it called Sports Tracker. In essence, you do your workout - walking, cycling etc, and the GPS in your phone allows Sports Tracker to measure how far you have gone, and then keeps a record of it. Pretty good, actually - it also records how long your routine has been, charts speed vs distance and height etc too.

As an experiment, I tried it out on my Saturday morning competition round. Mapperley is 6307 yards off the back tees, which is just over 3 and a half miles. Add on a bit for 'military' golf - you know - left, right, left right, and walking between holes and you'd probably estimate what? 4 and a half, five miles?

WRONG! - over EIGHT and a half miles, with a variation in elevation of over 80 yards, which you climb four times.

Don't let anyone ever tell you that golf isn't good exercise!