I had a patient come in this morning for an eye examination. He had lasik eye surgery to correct his distant vision. He was capable of clear vision at distance and needed reading glasses for up close. One of his main complaints was that he could not read the greens when he was putting while wearing his sunglasses. So he did not use them playing golf. The problem is that his lenses were polarized. Normally polarization helps with the sun particularly when you're on the water. However, some golfers do have problems with polarized lenses, particularly around the greens. The second thing about his sunglasses was that they were made with glass lenses. I had a patient who was struck around the eye with a golf ball while playing. Fortunately, he was wearing lenses made of polycarbonate. The lenses did not shatter. I feel that glasss lenses possilbly would have shattered and done injury to the eyes. Also, by not wearing sunglases while golfing over a long period of time, the patient was exposing himself to increase risks of cataracts and macular degeneration.