Can I play golf with this band on my Wrist?

[Boomer66]

Can I play Golf with the Fitbit on my Wrist?

[WendyB]

Of course. I do not know if it will add steps for the swaings or not. But you can test it out

[AFFitness]

I have played several rounds of golf, including tournaments, with my FitBit Flex on my right (dominant hand) wrist. From what I have noticed, the steps I take during my round are logged; that does not include swinging the club. One thing you could try is open your app, let it sync, and swing a club. I don't think it will register the swing as step because the chip has an accelerometor in it. Swinging a golf club and walking do not emmulate the same impact and motion.

Those are my thoughts.

Stay Fit.

[Mary]

I imagine it wouldn't even matter if it did count swings as steps.  You swing what... 100-200 times?  200 steps is inconsequential.  That's like 2 minutes of walking.  

[slysam]

I don't see a problem with wearing it and I am sure it will boost your step count very nicely. I have a Ftibit One and often casually play at a little 9 hole course. I think my One counts my swing as a step but I feel like it is a moderate full body motion that probably uses similar energy to a walking step if not more. If it adds, it doesn't add much. I just recall that when I took a series of group lessons the days we spent practicing our swing I did have a decent step count. But, my total distance it estimates is just slightly over the walking distance on the course (compared to GPS). I think the fitbit distance is just steps times stride setting (for walking or running), and I think some of my steps are smaller than the stride length I use outside so that would likely result in inflated distance. The calorie burn seems fine though, it is actually less than the database burn for golf, walking, carrying clubs. The Flex might sense the movement differently, but I would just start the activity timer (same method as sleep timing) before you start and stop when you end then when you sync the device look at your activity report on the fitbit.com website. You can compare it to what it would credit you for playing golf to see if it is giving an unusually high estimate.

[Gershon]

I don't know. Can you play golf without the Fitbit on your wrist? If not, then the Fitbit won't help.

[slysam]

A fitbit friend did write that s/he was getting a lot of extra steps riding in the cart--I think this user said  s/he had an Ultra (similar to the One). Since I've not yet ever rode in a cart, I cannot say. But that might be one thing to watch if it applies to you.

[whome]

@Gershon -lol -