In this study, a survey was carried out on 250 general male and female amateur golfers, living in Seoul, with more than 2 years of experience. The present study studied their injury rate by situation while they do a long-term golf exercise and found out the results as follows.
To the question of whether they have ever had an injury related to golfing, about 93.98% of male and 81.40% of female amateur golfers responded that they have. The analysis of injury rate by the amount and frequency of exercise showed that those (both men and women) who exercised 2 to 3 hours per week had the highest level of injury rate of the total amateur golfers surveyed. Also, both male and female amateur golfers who exercise with 2 boxes of balls at a time showed the highest injury rate. As for frequency, those men and women amateur golfers who exercise 3 to 4 times a week had the highest injury rate and they were followed by those who do it 2 to 3 times a week and more than 5 times a week in the order. In terms of warming-up (stretching) time, which is closely related to exercise injury, both male and female amateur golfers who spent less than 10 minutes on preparation had the highest rate of injury and they were followed by those who did stretching 10 to 20 minutes and 20 minutes in the order. It was found that even there were some who didn’t do warm-up at all. In addition, we found out the places where the amateur golfers get injured. Both male and female amateur golfers had injury in the field (rounds) more than in driving range. By season, both male and female amateur golfers had more sports injury during winter than any other seasons (followed by spring, summer and autumn in the order). By golf club by which the amateur golfers get injured, male amateur golfers had injury from driver club most and it as followed by short iron (#8, #9) and long iron (#3, #4), middle iron (#6, #7), fairway wood club and wedge club in the order. As for the female amateur golfers, they were also injured most by driver club and it was followed by fairway wood club, long iron, short iron, middle iron and wedge club.
Finally, by body part injured by golfing, the male amateur golfers had ribs injured most and it was followed by wrist, elbow, waist, shoulder, finger and knee in the order, However, the female amateur golfers had injury on waist most and it was followed by both wrist and ribs to similar extent and elbow, shoulder and finger in the order.
According to the results described above, most of the amateur golfers have had an injury once or twice while playing golf and particularly more sports injury in driving range than rounding, The present study also observed that they had more injury during winter than any other seasons, so it was known that more careful preparation (warming-up) is necessary to prevent sports injury, Therefore, it is consider that stretching as warm-up exercise should be emphasized and a preventive education be provided against sports injury.