What Kind of Sunglasses Are Best For Golf?

Almost every professional golfer will tell you the importance of having a high quality eyeglasses while on the golf course. This is the reason why numerous eyeglasses brands have started creating sunglasses and lenses specifically made for golfing. Golf sunglasses should enhance your vision, provide comfort for all day use, and be designed to protect your eyes from the sun or any outdoor elements. After all, in spending a day on the golf course, you may face all kinds of weather conditions.

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Golf Sunglasses vs Regular Sunglasses

Golf sunglasses are specially designed for those who love to spend the whole day outdoors. Therefore, it features several differences from a regular or fashion prescription sunglasses. The best golf sunglasses should provide enough protection from the elements, unsurpassed vision quality and contrast, and improved comfort, as well as, durability than a pair of regular sunglasses. 

Golf sunglasses should come with lenses that can absorb and filter out blue light because which offers a unique color enhancement. Theses lenses there are able to enhance the golf ball’s white color against the green background.  Sunglasses with base lens colors such as Brown or Yellow are the best for golfing

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The frames of the golf sunglasses are usually made of lightweight material. In addition, it should also be as minimal as possible especially around the bottom of the lenses. This feature will enhance your vision of the ball when you are about to hit it. Thicker frames tend to interfere with your vision.

The lenses for golf sunglasses are cut differently from regular lenses.  Golf sunglasses use lenses that are designed to reduce distortion and improve visual acuity especially in the lower part of the lens to enable the wearer to focus on the ball at their feet accurately. Regular sunglasses typically offer clearer vision in the middle part of the lens, which is the suitable sunglasses for driving, biking, and many other sports. There is also greater distortion around the top and bottom parts of the lenses with regular sunglasses which you want to avoid when on the golf course

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Regular and fashion sunglasses are not always designed for an all day use. The best golfing sunglasses are made to be lightweight and durable, and usually made of acetate or titanium material. Golfers need their sunglasses to stay in place especially when they are looking down the ball before a swing. A good golf sunglasses should be designed to sit securely on your head all day long even when you move around and are swinging your golf club.  Wrap sunglasses are the best option for a lightweight frame that will stay on your face all day long.  Vuarnet Wrap Sunglasses with Ski-lynx Yellow Lenses pictured below:

What to Look For When Buying Golf Sunglasses

If you are looking for the best sunglasses in the market, there are several features to check before buying.

Eye Protection

Ideal golf sunglasses should provide 100% UV protection. Some golfers love to use polarized sunglasses, while others do not like this particular tint because it can interfere with visual depth perception. In the end, the choice between non-polarized or polarized lenses comes down to personal preferences. One of the key benefits of polarized lenses is that in reduced the reflection off of surfaces which could benefit golfing on courses that have a lot of water hazards.

Visual Quality

Most golfer understands the importance of perfect visual acuity when on the golf course especially around the greens. This is particularly important when tracking your drive down he fairway or in the unfortunate situation of hitting into the rough. Choosing the right pair of golf sunglasses can provide excellent visual contrast when looking at the white ball against the green grass or blue sky as well.

No one enjoys walking around the course struggling to find your ball or sitting on a green not being able to read the proper line.  Stop by iCare Family Vision today to find a great pair of golf sunglasses that could not only improve your golf game, but also allow you to enjoy being out in the sun even more.

What Are Trivex Lenses?

What is Trivex?

Trivex lens material is a breakthrough optical polymer that delivers critical performance characteristics for everyday living. Only the advanced technology provided by Trivex lens material delivers the unprecedented combination of crisp, clear vision, ultra lightweight comfort, unsurpassed strength and protection.

Crisp, Clear Vision

For reading, computer work, driving, and any time vision acuity is important, Trivex lens material provides the optical quality that optimizes corrective prescriptions and helps to reduce eye strain.

Lightweight Comfort

Lenses made with Trivex material are ultra-light for ultimate comfort; Trivex is one of the lightest lens materials on the planet. And that can mean your eyewear sliding off the nose less often. Unlike other lens materials, Trivex blends the benefits of light weight and thinness, often resembling a high index lens, but weighing even less than polycarbonate.

Strength and Protection

For the demands of everyday living, eyeglass lenses need to provide protection from unexpected impact, breakage and from the sun’s harmful UV radiation. Unexpected physical contact can happen at any moment. Trivex provides high-impact resistance when it is needed most—for example, during participation in sports or in an active work environment. The high tensile strength and durability of Trivex—plus its stress-free characteristics—make it an excellent choice for drill-mount frames and any lightweight fashion frames that rely on lenses for structural rigidity. And to protect your eyes from the sun, Trivex blocks 100% of harmful UV rays.

Enhance Your Trivex Experience

Trivex lens material is the ideal foundation on which to build eyewear that will help you get the most out of life. By combining the benefits of Trivex with advanced lens designs and eyeglass lens enhancements, you can provide the ultimate in “True to Life” eyewear. Trivex is compatible with most vision enhancing lens options, including: Anti-Reflective (A/R) coatings; digitally surfaced single vision and progressive lens designs; polarized sunlenses; and Transitions® lenses.

Who Should Wear Trivex?

Trivex material provides precise optical performance for every prescription. The majority of patients—approximately 85%— have prescriptions that fall within the Trivex range and will gain the most from the benefits of Trivex material in an attractive and comfortably thin lens.

A perfect fit for children’s lenses…

With Trivex material, children gain the benefits of impact resistance PLUS great optical performance. Lenses made with Trivex material can pass some of the optical industry’s highest standards for impact resistance.  Even better, Trivex can provide that protection without compromising visual performance for reading and schoolwork.

Compatible with all lifestyles and frame styles...

For the fashion-conscious, lenses that provide optical quality, lightweight comfort, strength and protection are always in style! Trivex material is a perfect fit for all frame designs, and it is especially well-suited for rimless (drill-mount) and semi-rimless (supra) styles. The robustness of Trivex material is unmatched by any other lens material, delivering durability, ultra-lightweight comfort, and precise optics in an attractively thin lens that can satisfy your individual styles.

Compare the Real Life Benefits

Trivex lens material provides the critical performance characteristics called for in everyday living—bringing you the best of all worlds.

The only “True to Life” lens material

As the foundation of all eyewear, the lens material determines how well a lens will perform in real life situations. Being “True to Life” means that the Trivex lenses you wear will provide what your eyes everything they need at any given moment. Lenses made with Trivex lens material provide: Crisp, Clear Vision Exceptional optical performance when vision quality is needed Lightweight Comfort Ultra-light for ultimate comfort; Trivex is one of the lightest lens materials available Strength and Protection Unsurpassed impact and breakage protection, plus 100% UV blockage. Lenses made with Trivex material are compatible with most vision-enhancing lens options for the ultimate in “True to Life” eyewear:

• Anti-Reflective (A/R) coatings

• Advanced single vision and progressive lens designs

• Polarized sunlenses

• Transitions lenses