Getting old is an inevitability of life. There’s no doubt that we are living longer. Over the last 40 years life expectancy in the UK has slowly been increasing, driven by advances in health care and improvements in living and working conditions. As a result, the average golf club member demographic has risen too.
Many golf clubs have burgeoning senior sections. Retirement makes us time-rich and golf is the ideal sport to play late on in life when you have given up more physically demanding sports that put too much stress on joints. Golf keeps your body mobile and exercising in the outdoors is good for health and wellbeing. Golf provides great social benefits too, which is particularly important when you stop working.
