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Formerly BrunsRico

If you play a flat muni every time you play and ride on a golf cart, it's bowling.

If you walk your round, play a hilly course and play in extreme temperatures, it's golf.

At the tour level, golf. Although there are some muscle groups/joints/etc. that are under greater fire during bowling.

Jess

Serious competitive bowling, i.e. at the pro level, whereas one bowls with a 15 or 16 lb. ball around 70-75 games per week (practice and competition games), is extremely tough on the body, such as the fingers, bowling hand, bowling wrist, bowling elbow, bowling shoulder, back (especially the mid-lower back), hips, knees, ankles, and feet take an absolute beating week in and week out.

Although golf does exert a certain amount of stress on the body, it is not nearly as physically destructive as bowling.

Golf to me is stress relieving, hit the ball and walk, whereas bowling is stress inducing, throw the ball and watch/feel the body suffer (if throwing several games).
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It is probably a draw.

At the professional level most golfers will do at least a 1 hour warm up, 4 hour round in which they walk 7 miles, and then they will go to the range for a couple hours afterwards to try and correct any flaw they had in their swing that day and they will do that 4 days in a row.

Professional bowlers will bowl 2 qualifying blocks maybe 20 games with practice over a 5 or 6 hour span of time. They might practice as well.

But bowling that many games is generally limited to a couple days, at least in competition.

On an amateur basis most golfers ride a cart and most bowlers don’t throw more than 3 games at a time. Not a very physically demanding activity.

Many golfers sustain back injuries over time plus knee, hip, wrist and some other joint injuries.

Bowling has its own share of injury areas, back, knees, wrist, shoulder, etc.

Bowling’s biggest issue is that one side of the body gets overused. Compensating exercises should be done to balance this out.