A-listers Get Hooked On Golf

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When you yourself have never played golf, perhaps you'll never understand the attraction. But if you're like many celebrities--whether they have been playing for a long time or just recently began to tee it up--you'll agree that the game has an strange appeal that can eat up you.

Tennis has experienced a rise in popularity recently, so much so that the game--long and wrongly considered a less-than-physically-challenging sport--is striking yoga and Pilates work-outs. Celebrity players, who frequently spend fitness trainers big money to help them enter shape and help them keep physically fit--say there are some definite physical benefits related to an outing on the links.

Specialists say you can get the most out of a round of golf if you walk the course, the amount of which can measure about 5 miles, with regards to the course. Walking builds energy, improves your cardio-vascular health and enables you to burn a reasonable quantity of calories. You could get an upper-body work-out also, if you take your clubs. And striking the ball actually can improve your hand-eye coordination, which can be useful in several other areas.

Professional players and many celebrities have begun playing to include another degree of competition for their lives and to help you to spend more time together with their families, who are joining them on the program.

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Some players like Oakland Raiders cornerback Ray Buchanan love the game therefore much that he and his wife, Sheree, constructed their dream home at Sugarloaf Country Club in Duluth, Ga., home of the PGA Tour's Bellsouth Classic. Their multimillion-dollar mansion overlooks the hole, and Buchanan, a former Pro-Bowler, represents 2-3 times weekly during the off-season.

'At first, I did not like golf,' says Buchanan, formerly of the Atlanta Falcons. 'But after a while, it had been just like a virus--so infectious that I wanted to keep playing and learn more.'

Sheree Buchanan, who starred within the 'NFL spouses' staff within the Emmy-winning reality TELEVISION series The Amazing Race 4, just started golfing a couple of months ago, in an attempt to spend more time with her husband. She took up golf; he took up her favorite sport--tennis. She is only starting to understand why her husband enjoys the game so much--the competition with yourself and a need to always do better. In the course of time, the pair hopes that their four children will grow to love the game as much as they do.

'[Golf is] still fresh for me,' Sheree says. 'For us, it is fun. He teaches me, and so long as we do not have a lot of people [playing] behind us, it's OKAY.'

Carolina Panthers broad receiver Muhsin Muhammad, who also owns an entertainment company and nonprofit base, says he started playing golf when he joined the NFL and 'fell deeply in love with it.'

'Golf is a thing that is quite soothing for me,' states Muhammad, who already is pushing his 3-year-old son to play. This interesting view site link has a few original aids for the reason for this idea. 'I think being able to play tennis enables you to meet and keep company with different people.'

Nevertheless it isn't only professional athletes who enjoy time to the course. Actors including Samuel M. Jackson and Will Smith, and singer Johnny Gill also love the-game. Also celebrity lovers make the rounds together.it comes to golf: 'We wish we'd started to play when we were children.'.