Golf Eyewear

Many golfers can benefit immensely from the use of good quality golf eyewear. While eye injuries from physical trauma are extremely uncommon in the golfing world, the proper sunglasses can provide a number of benefits, including protection from unseen hazards.

The first and most important benefit of golf eyewear is its contribution to the wearer’s safety. While most golfers need not worry about taking a stray ball, tee, or piece of sod to the eye, there are unseen dangers to the eye on any golf course, and indeed in virtually any outdoor setting. This invisible menace is ultraviolet radiation from the sun. These harmful rays are known to produce cataracts, but they can be easily filtered out of the light entering an eye by special chemical coatings applied to the lenses of sunglasses. This protective UV coating is a must for any golfer.

Polarized lenses can reduce glare, alleviating eye strain and allowing the golfer to maintain focus and concentration during the game. They also allow details to be more visible at long distances.

Specially designed golf eyewear provides a number of other distinct advantages to golfers that normal sunglasses cannot. These purpose built glasses can actually improve a golfer’s game. They do this by altering the golfer’s visual acuity and perception in a way that is beneficial specifically when out on the course. Lenses can be specially tinted to filter out blue light, which makes the surrounding colors more vivid and distinct. They can make the white ball more visible when contrasted against the blue sky and can help the golfer distinguish details in the course’s terrain more easily and at greater distances.

Golf eyewear is available in prescriptions, so glasses wearers need not feel left out. These prescriptions can be built directly into the lens, giving the glasses the appearance, convenience and fit of normal golf eyewear.