Calories burned golfing but riding in cart?

The units are not given when you enter your info so you don't know if they are asking for holes, minutes or hours. I agree with you that the 1200 number is bogus. Hopefully someone knowledgeable will respond as I had the same question.

Does anyone know about how many calories you would burn golfing, but riding in the cart. MFP claims over 1200 calories and I really don't think that could be correct. Maybe I should cut that in half. Any ideas?

It is highly likely that it would be 300 calories per hour IF you walked everywhere. If you were riding in the cart, the amount of calories you are now burning is minimal.

Depends on how many cocktails I have while carting around?

I do golf and do use a cart--last round was 150 min and 760 calories. Middle of the road course. It has varied from around 650 to 900 (really hard course--lots of swings--lots of bad words)
This is from my HRM--after subtracting BMR

I have the same issues regarding other exercises too (mowing lawns, gardening are big burns compared to circut training, ect). I think in general, unless you know for sure the data is indeed correct, your better off low balling it.

Your in a cart and walking back and forth.. not very many. Not enough to count.

I play 9 holes in a league every Thursday in the summer. I don't even count my cals. Becasue i figure i am drinking them right back. Its not really exercise for me, just fun!

Depnds how many 12 oz curls you've done while riding in said golf cart.

I burn about 1,700 calories riding a cart and 2,100 calories walking. My Fitbit clocks me walking the course at about 8.5 miles which might be a little off since me walking around the green doesn't really cover the same ground as my walking down a fairway or between holes. Endomondo has my same course at 7 mile walk. It is for a 5 hour round and works out to 340 calories per hour riding and 420 calories walking which is about right (slightly more than my slow walking rate). I feared they were too high for a long while but I've check many sources and they all come up about the same. I also eat back most of my exercise calories and continued to lose weight even though I logged several rounds of golf a week over the last year.

The problem with leisure activity studies is that the numbers look like more than they are because they are spread out over a long period of time and they don't take into account what you do the rest of the day.

I've seen all the studies and all the numbers--all I can say is that when I was at my heaviest, I played golf at least once a week from March through December and I never lost an ounce. And that's walking 18 holes and playing faster than most people do in a cart. And I'm sure some people have lost weight playing golf, but I have never met anyone who has. In fact I only started losing weight when I stopped golfing and starting using that free time to do some real exercise again.

During the season when most people play, 18 holes can take up to 5 hours. On a cart, I doubt the actual physical movement is much more than a person would spend watching the US Open on TV and getting up to go to the bathroom and get a snack every now and then.

If someone is playing and walking 18 holes 4-5 times a week, that might be a different story. But IMO, someone who plays occasionally--2-3 times a month--is fooling themselves is they think they are doing anything substantial.

I do wear my HRM when I play and depending on weather (if it's a cool day or 95 degree weather day) my calories change. I average anywhere between 800 to 900 riding in a cart and around 1100 to 1200 when I am pulling a cart or carrying the bag! I just like to see what calorie burn I have...so hence the HRM...mainly for curiosity. I don't really eat any of that back! haha (now I may drink some of it back after the round or during the round...all depending on how I am playing..lol) :drinker:

Golfing usually ends up as a wash for me.

The drinking offsets it.

Hrm does not work for golf and will give a heavily inflated number because of this.. Heat will also give an inflated number. There is zero chance you are burning that much. Or even half that much

I do wear my HRM when I play and depending on weather (if it's a cool day or 95 degree weather day) my calories change. I average anywhere between 800 to 900 riding in a cart and around 1100 to 1200 when I am pulling a cart or carrying the bag! I just like to see what calorie burn I have...so hence the HRM...mainly for curiosity. I don't really eat any of that back! haha (now I may drink some of it back after the round or during the round...all depending on how I am playing..lol) :drinker:

I have been trying to get a definitive answer on this front. Web searches show varying figures.

I walk the course (buggies are not allowed in qualifying competitions anyway), but I do have an electronic trolley at the recommendation of my physio (lower back problems). GPS has it as a six mile walk for the 18 holes, and I cover them in about 3.5 to 4.5 hours depending on how busy the course is at the time and how many others are playing with me.

MFP has me at 1,193 kcals for 240mins of "Golf, using power cart". I'm not sure if this means riding a buggy or not, but I'm not carrying nor am I pulling/pushing a trolley. Using an electric trolley like mine is not the same as having a caddy take of your clubs; far from it, it still takes some manual effort.

It's certainly not exercise in the same way as gym sessions, but to say it's 'little to no' calorie burn doesn't seem right to me. I mean if you went walking for four hours that would count, right? The course is a little hilly, plus you have the swinging of a club 50 times to hit the ball (not counting putting) and it is a dynamic movement not devoid of effort.

I keep the MFP calculation as is, but tend not to eat back all the cals... probably about 60-70% of them.

Because the weather is nice, I play about four 18 hole rounds per week at the moment and I do count it as part of my exercise plan.

So - now "a good walk spoiled", isn't even a bad walk? :-)

Just try walking!