Fitness Friday: Supplemental insurance | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

Golfers often ask about the benefits of taking supplements in terms of improving their health and their golf games. Would talking an energy drink during a round help back-nine stamina? Do protein supplements help improve driving distances? Do anti-oxidant supplements speed recovery from injuries and soreness? Can beverages infused with electrolytes quickly hydrate the body?

My answer to these types of questions is always the same: If you eat a healthy, well-balanced diet and drink enough water, you’re just wasting your money buying supplements. Sure, someone who lives in Alaska in the winter could develop a severe deficiency in vitamin D, and that person could take a pill to help offset the effects of 20-plus hours of darkness. But that is an extreme case. And besides, that person also could recover some of that vitamin D by eating omelets with mushrooms. Yum.

The point is that many nutrition stores and websites …