AHA/ASA EPI and Stroke Council committee(s) member and volunteer expert, Daniel T. Lackland, Dr.PH. offers perspective (via Skype) on ISC 20 presentation TP172. He is Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. 
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"And in an ideal of a way, the more active I can be with my golf, the better off I'm going to be. So, if I'm playing 18 holes of golf, and I'm walking, maybe even carrying my bag if I can. In one sense I think golf offers a nice opportunity, is that I have a number of different ways that I can play golf and have different levels of activity, that might be best suited for me and it might be that I'm just not able to walk 18 holes of golf maybe I can ride. I'm still getting that activity and I would still be considered to be active. People of this age with co-morbid conditions that we're talking about people that have had a stroke, or a heart attack certainly you would wanna share this with your physician. Sit down and say you know I wanna be active, and I know that your physician would want you to be active, then what's the best activity. This is what I proposed to do, are there any down sides on this."