If you want to have a healthy retirement you need to start preparing early. While still in the womb is best, but if you're not an early adopter, any time after birth is good. And it turns out that golfing can help, by building up your vitamin D levels, which guards against osteoporosis. Sunshine is the best way to boost your levels, unless you fancy dining on oily fish and eggs 24/7. So if you have an inside job, you owe it to your boss to work less and golf more, thereby greatly reducing your risk of fractures at work. However, you may have to modify the way you play 18 holes because if it's summer you need to play before 9.00 or after 5.00. If you don't like really early mornings, you're going to have to play 9 holes and then have a very long lunch and play the rest of the round after 5.00. That could eat into your happy hour time, although most bags have chilly-bag pockets if you need to carry supplies. If you have to play in the heat of the day, you're faced with a dilemma. If you use sunscreen, you won't get any vitamin D. If you don't use sunscreen you'll look like you're retirement age when you're only 30. And this is where golf is better than any other outdoor sport. 98 percent of golfers spend 97 percent of their time in or under the 'protection' of trees. (While the cliche says trees are 90 percent air, 100 percent of golfers who try to hit out/around/through trees, hit branches 110 percent of the time.(Yes, I failed maths.)) Hence, you're only going to be out in the sun while you're driving and putting (see my tips on Youtube to minimise those times) and possibly when walking between holes. So, as long as you don't play at a links course and you're not one of those really irritating men who marks their card on the green, the sun is your friend.
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