Golf is good for you it is effectively a low intensity workout. Golf burns up calories, reduces cholesterol and can reduce stress. During a round, you walk between four and eight miles, and burn off a thousand calories. Walking the course increases cardio-vascular capacity, improves lung capacity and improves blood flow (when playing golf, your heart rate pumps away at between 90 and 120 beats per minute). The basics - swinging the club, bending down to place the ball on the tee and picking up the ball - help keep joints supple and keep muscle groups in trim.

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Bradley Park Golf Complex offers a relaxed, friendly and informal atmosphere with excellent facilities for those wanting to start the game. In addition to the Driving Range, 9 hole par 3 course (ideal for beginners) and practice areas, there are opportunities for group coaching and individual tuition for players of all ages. And when you're ready there's also the challenge of a stunning 18 hole championship course.

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The question of who invented golf is a matter of debate. A game similar to golf is recorded in a Chinese book of the 11th century. Games resembling golf were also played in the 14th century by sportsmen in Holland, Belgium and France. However, it is generally accepted that the modern day game is a Scottish invention.

At first the game was played on rough terrain with the 'greens' crude holes cut into the ground where the surface was reasonably flat.

The first rules of golf, 13 in all, were drawn up in 1744 when a group of Edinburgh golfers formed a club called the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Leith Links.

Although the oldest playing golf course in the world is thought to be The Musselburgh Old Links Golf Course, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews is the ancestral home of the modern game, governing the rules of golf.

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