Everyone knows that walking is the most fundamental of all exercise programs. So it makes sense that walking a golf course with a push cart would be considered good for you. This simply has not always been the case though. Due to the start and stop that happens during the round, many have argued that walking with a golf push cart is not beneficial to your exercise program. I would suggest that these people have never tried to walk eighteen holes in less than four hours.

As David Fay of the USGA has written, "We strongly believe that walking is the most enjoyable way to play golf and that the use of carts is detrimental to the game. This negative trend needs to be stopped now before it becomes accepted that riding in a cart is the way to play golf."

Not to sound funny but walking a course gets you closer to the golf course. It is a totally different experience using a push cart across the terrain as opposed to hopping in a regular golf cart. I have found that I am able to learn more about a golf course that I have walked as opposed to those that I ride. Walking with a push cart allows you to gain an appreciation for the nuances of a golf course that just are not visible from a golf cart.

In just the last few years, golf push carts have been revitalized. As the baby boomers are retiring and trying to stay in shape, using a push cart is much easier for them than trying to pull a pull cart or lug their golf bag around the golf course. The new walking golf carts are not your dad’s old aluminum tripod with the hard plastic wheels on it. Today’s golf push carts are high tech golfing ensemble statements.