by Ben Keal on February 21, 2025
Golf is a low-impact outdoor activity that enhances physical fitness, mobility, balance, coordination, and other motor skills. It also encourages socialization, reduces stress, and offers cognitive benefits.
Developers of active adult communities understand the benefits of outdoor activities and social interaction for maintaining physical and mental health. This is why they often integrate golf into their master-planned communities!
Retiring to a Golf Community
Luxury fifty-five-and-older communities promote an active adult lifestyle by emphasizing recreational activities, health and wellness, and a sense of community. In addition to sprawling green areas reserved for golf, swimming pools, tennis courts, pickleball courts, and community centers, active adult communities are filled with organized social activities.
Physical Benefits of Playing Golf
Regularly playing golf and participating in other physical activities helps seniors stay strong, alert, and independent. Walking around a golf course supports cardiovascular health and weight loss, and swinging clubs engages different muscle groups for a full-body workout. Combined, this helps build strength, flexibility, coordination, and balance.
Golf is also a low-impact activity that requires precise movement and posture, so there is a lower chance of injury playing golf than in other sports. Even seniors with joint issues or other age-related limitations can enjoy a day on the golf course in the fresh air and sunshine.
Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Benefits of Playing Golf
Golf is often played in pairs or groups. This not only encourages friendly competition, but it also brings people together and fosters a sense of camaraderie.
In addition to social interaction, golf can help sharpen one's mind. The game requires concentration, calculation, and strategy. Keeping your brain engaged with these aspects of a round of golf may help reduce cognitive decline. Spending leisure time outdoors in a tranquil, natural setting with spectacular views is also bound to improve anyone’s mood and alleviate stress.
Living a Fulfilling Life Through Golf
When you are looking to retire and spend your days being active, golf might be one of the amenities you expect in luxury fifty-five-and-older housing. Many of these communities also offer services that enhance your standard of living. From beautiful landscaping to onsite dry cleaning, these communities allow you to focus on enjoying your retirement to the fullest.
Start your search today on the Planned Communities portal. Our platform allows you to find communities using search parameters like location, amenities (like golf!), and price range. You can then navigate to a carefully curated list of potential communities and book a Discovery Package to visit your selections in person–and maybe get in a few rounds of golf while you’re there!
About the Author
Since 2012, Ben Keal has led PCR solidifying PrivateCommunities.com as a top source in helping prospective buyers find their ideal lifestyle community. With decades of experience in both sales and real estate, he has built lasting relationships with the country's top developers, homebuilders, country clubs, and real estate agents. A licensed real estate broker, Ben also serves as the Managing Broker for Private Communities Realty, LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Private Communities Registry, LLC)—further ensuring PCR's mission to uphold the company's reputation as a responsible and trusted broker for real estate shoppers interested in amenity-rich, master-planned lifestyle communities.
