Your Best Equipment May Well Be Your Eyes!

As an optometrist, I must warn you of the perils of excessive UV damage—including cataracts and possible macular degeneration. It is just smart to protect your eyes as well as the rest of your body.

For years, eye doctors have recommended tints to keep the eyes from squinting from the bright sunlight. Squinting diminishes the eyes’ blink rate, resulting in dry eyes and/or dry contact lenses. Comfortable eyes can translate into a comfortable body, and this can transfer into comfortable swings. The reverse also applies.

If you have experienced problems with sunglasses in the past, it may be partly from the lenses being so dark that they interrupt your eyes’ ability to perceive subtle depth clues, especially if you are of a more mature age. This is because the (crystalline) lens inside the eye turns yellow and diminishes the light reaching our retinas. The tint that used to be recommended was often a dark gray. The gray lens was originally called “true color,” as the colors viewed through the lens remained the same. For light-colored, light-sensitive eyes, a dark tint makes sense most of the time.

I have used my clinics to “test-drive” sunglass tints. Some interesting findings have surfaced about the once-popular dark gray lenses for the majority of golfers. I have found that the lighter tints are more beneficial for most golfers.

Eventually I found a unique brand of sunglass for the majority of golfers: PeakVision sunglasses. Players have told me that t lens helps them see more sharply when they are standing next to the green. Others have said they can see more detail and slopes with this tint.

These lenses not only are the lightest weight—yet shatterproof—but also have the best optics from the center to the periphery of any lens I have tested. Their “dual-zone” technology gives good depth for distance viewing, and a lighter lower portion of the lens allows for hitting shots without having to take off the glasses. For those of you with prescription glasses, yes, they make lenses for distance prescriptions. By the way, 100 percent UV protection is in all of their lenses. You do not need polarized or dark lenses to be completely protected from UV radiation.

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