Table 2

MET of a round of golf

Study	Quality assessment	No. of holes	Club transportation	METs (mean±SD)
Dear et al 27	Fair	9	Pulling clubs	2.8±0.5
Dobrosielski et al 28	Fair	9	Pulling clubs	4.1±0.1 (cardiac disease)
Gabellieri29	Fair	18	Carrying clubs	8.6±3.1
Unverdorben et al 34	Good	18	Pulling clubs	3.1 (cardiac disease)
Unverdorben et al 34	Good	18	Pulling clubs	3.1 (controls)
Zunzer et al 32	Good	9	Mixed	2.9±0.8 (male)
		9	Mixed	2.2±0.6 (female)
		18	Mixed	2.8±0.7 (male)
		18	Mixed	2.1±0.7 (female)
Tangen et al 33	Fair	18	Mixed	5.8 (male)
Tangen et al 33	Fair	18	Mixed	4.9 (female)

Please refer to online supplementary appendix 6 for characteristics of the above studies.
MET, metabolic equivalent of task.