Oxygen uptake during a round of golf
| Study | Quality assessment | No. of holes | Club transportation | Oxygen uptake (l min–1) (mean±SD) | Oxygen uptake (ml kg–1 min–1) (mean±SD) | %VO2max |
| Crowell26 | Fair | 9 | Riding a golf cart | 1.05±0.11 | 8.5 | – |
| 9 | Pulling clubs | 1.37±0.03 | 9.1 | |||
| 9 | Carrying clubs | 1.50±0.11 | 9.7 | |||
| Dear et al 27 | Fair | 9 | Pulling clubs | – | 9.9±1.7 | – |
| Loy31 | Fair | 18 | Carrying clubs | 1.23±0.11 | – | |
| Unverdorben et al 34 | Good | 18 | Pulling clubs | – | – | 76.0±13.1 (patients with cardiac disease) |
| 18 | 55.3±9.1 (controls) |
Please refer to online supplementary appendix 6 for characteristics of the above studies.