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Feeling Under Par? Ask Your Doctor for Golf Fri Sep 13, 4:51 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - British doctors are to prescribe cheap golf sessions to patients who need to get fit. Out-of-shape sufferers will get subsidized tuition from a professional golfer, one-to-one medical supervision as they walk the fairways and a huge discount on course fees. 'The principle is to get non-active people into activity,' said Joel Chapman, business development manager at the local council in Taunton Deane, southwest England, where the project is being launched. 'As far as we know, no one else in the country is doing this with golf.' Doctors will be able to refer unfit patients to the town's municipal golf course for an eight-week session. 'The golf professional will go round with them and give them a few tips on how to improve, to make sure they don't get frustrated if they can't hit the ball,' Chapman said. Patients will pay 36 pounds ($56) for the treatment, with local government picking up the rest of the 200-pound bill. 'Our golf course is quite short so it won't be a long old hike,' Chapman told Reuters. 'It's not overstrenuous and it's not hilly. It's quite a sedate course.' Golf has long been seen as a good way to get fit although it has its detractors. American writer Mark Twain famously dismissed it as 'a good walk spoiled' while Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill described it as 'trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.'
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