Glasses + Golf = Bad game??

Well folks I have a question...

I tend to need glasses to see the golf ball when I hit it (i.e. am nearsighted). But I have heard that glasses can "hurt" your game. Is this true?? would contacts to the same also?? <--

Contacts are not the same because they are on your eyeballs. The problem with glasses is that when you are over the ball aligning to a target, you tend to look at the target, back to your ball, to your target, back to your clubface. Shifting your eyes back and forth you are then looking out of the corner of your eyes (not through the glasses) and then in front of you (through the glasses) and back and forth. You are now looking through two different planes.

In short, with contacts you are always looking throgh the lense, which tends not to happen with glasses.

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Gord

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"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall

Hi Bryan,

I wear glasses for golf ........I can safely say it doesn't affect your game at all.

However if it's raining it can be a pain (carry a tissue and wear a cap) .......I have also just started to wear contact lenses just a weekends because I work on a computer allday which is no good for lenses.

I wear lenses when it is sunny with sun glasses and this is fine.

When I played my one and only game with contacts in I played really bad, so I wear my glasses...........I have always played with glasses on so I think that if I wanted to continue wearing contacts I would need some practice first....you must see the game diffently like Gord says with or without glasses.



Ian.

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Glasses shouldn't effect your game.Wear a hat with a large brim on wet days

Well, I wear glasses and have to say I would like not to have to as far as golf is concerned, theres nothing worse than drizzley rain when your playing. I always carry a hand towel to wipe the glasses dry.

Ona related topic, I know two guys who had laser eye treatment to correct their vision and say it has helped their golf a surprising amount. Its getting cheaper to have done as well.

D.

I dont play with glasses but my step mom does and it seems to not affect her game at all. It is just personal preference as for the contacts glasses i would say. If i had vision requiring correction i would do contacts or lasic because i hardly like wearing sun glasses except when i have to.

Those of you who wear glasses are used to playing with them, so you have adjusted over time. But if you never had to wear corrective lenses before and started wearing them, you would notice a difference.

I don't wear glasses, but I know many who do. Most find that they are better with contacts because of what I said in my previous post.

As for what Darryl touched on with laser eye surgery, I know 3 people who have had the corrective surgery performed and their golf game improved termendously!

This wouldn't apply so much to the low handicappers who have already figured out how to score well with glasses, usually just the higher handicappers. They just seem unable to line up properly with glasses on for some reason!

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Gord

Quote of the month:
"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall

Guys

Don't know about the laser treatment......I'm a bit of a wimp on that score.



What if it went wrong...no more golf.


Glasses are better than a Rope and stool.......



Ian.