1,665 square miles of scenery – an area only slightly smaller than the state of Delaware.
70 percent of each course is not in play.
Drew Scott, a field biologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum, put it more succinctly: “A golf course isn't as good as nature, but it's better than a Wal-Mart parking lot.”
In the study, just published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, researchers stuck 90 co-eds one-at-a-time in an office and assigned them mental tasks. Thirty could look out a window at a fountain and big trees, 30 looked at a plasma screen showing the same thing and 30 faced a blank wall.
They were connected to a monitor and their heart rates tested 60 seconds after stress was induced. The heart rates dropped faster in students who spent more time gazing out the window.
