[Martee]

That is probably too hard to answer since with age so much changes

Flexibility

Muscle Mass

Hearing

Eye Sight

Reflexes

etc.

Given a golfer's desire to stay fit, live a good (dull) life, it would probably be equal. Gary Player seems to have held up well.

Hitters would have to work harder to maintain the same level in older age than Swingers only because of the physical attributes that are effect with age.

Look at Sam Snead, he had flexibility but yet in older age lost some and he was a swinger. Hitters such as Arnold Palmer who took fitness very seriously when he hit his 50s lost it also.

Age is no one's friend, but the alternative is even worse.