This doesn't make it a sport. More importantly, golf fails to make some of the criteria that I have for sports. The sport doesn't need to meet all of the criteria, just enough. That doesn't count. Walking from hole to hole might make them sweat, but if you think about the distance that golfers walk, it pales in comparison to what UCI students trek every day to get to class and trust me folks, most of us aren't athletes.
Golfers are never in any physical peril.
Golfers might say that they need mental endurance, but then again so do chessmasters and Tetris geeks. Once again it fails the sweat test. Yeah, I'm sure the average driver sweats plenty in his rig, but I think it has more to do with being squished into that little cockpit than the actual act to stepping on the gas pedal and turning left. Then auto racing fails the sit factor. It passes the physical peril thing, but it misses on the other counts.