Golf Tips: Staying Safe and Healthy On the Golf Course

Around the country, more and more places are closing every day. There is one place that is remaining open for the most part, golf courses. In today’s golf tips, we look at how to stay safe and healthy out there.

It’s a bit tough out there right now, regardless of where you are at. I want to try and keep it a bit happy and uplifting today by talking about something that makes all of us happy. Playing golf. So, in today’s golf tips, we will look at some ways to remain out on the golf course, all the while staying healthy while we do so.

One of the great things about golf is that you get to be outside, enjoying nature, and getting a decent bit of a workout in. It’s one of the reasons that people are still able to go out amidst the rightful concerns of the Coronavirus. Golf remains safe for the time being, as long as you take the right steps while playing to limit your, and your playing partners, exposure.

Before you head out to your round, extend the cleaning of your clubs down to your grips as well. If you can sanitize your grips, it’s one more simple step you can take to limit the spread of anything.

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One of the things that golf courses have either been implementing or acquiescing to is allowing single riders in carts, regardless of the size of your group. With the six-foot rule being in effect, a lot of courses are letting you go out in a cart by yourself, without charging you or anyone in your group anything extra.

The spacing extends to when you first meet up with your group. Instead of a pre-round handshake, there are a couple of things you can do instead, helping to keep your round light before it starts. We’ve all heard of elbow bumps or tapping feet in lieu of a handshake. Why not make it golf-centric, and tap clubs. I did this recently at the first tee, and it helped lighten the mood for everyone.

There are two more suggestions, although they may irk some people. The first has to do with bunkers, and the second has to do with how you finish out the hole.

Some courses are taking their rakes out of their bunkers, eliminating golfer-to-golfer contact from moving them around. If the rakes are still there, then they suggest not moving them or making sure that they stay out of the bunkers.

The second one is the one that could bug some people, unless you are Bryson DeChambeau. Although it has been proven that putting with the flagstick out is better, turning these times, it is something that they recommend leaving in. If anything, you can just count anything that hits the flagstick as a make. It is for safety’s

sake after all.

For more information about COVID-19, visit the CDC’s website or the website for your state’s Department of Health.