Help With Putting Alignment and Eye Glasses

OK... I was never a good putter... but as my eye prescription gets worse...
I'm having even more trouble.

I wear progressive tri focals. My latest prescription has some astigmatism
correction. [Age 55 taking it's toll.]

If I look down at the ball, and look at the cup without moving my head, the
cup is visible through my glasses in one location, and visible outside of
the lens in another location (but just a blur). But it's not just that one
is inside and one outside the lens... the relative positions are rather
different (one higher, one lower).

If I tilt my glasses just slightly I can get the 2 positions to switch. So
it's impossible to even tell which is the correct line.

Tom K...

That sounds worth a shot... but the brain has to disconnect the fact that
the line will look wrong when glancing for distance feel. Not sure how that
will work in the real world.

How do you even deal with something like that?

Noons...

I think you need to try a different style of putting.
Sam Snead's late style would work in your case.
I used to have similar problems but nowhere as
bad, before I did the lasix thing. Now I only have
a problem reading. Similar age bracket.

I have no desire to try either contacts or lasix.

Does it work better without tri focals? Should I get a pair without the
astigmatism correction? Any suggestions?

long&left...

Hi Tom,
I have a right eye austigmatism but am left eye dominant. I'm far
sighted in my right eye and near sighted in my left eye. I'm also an
excellent putter because I don't (can't) wear glasses or contacts when I
play golf, although I wear them to drive, read, and watch TV. Well,
maybe not "because", but maybe my earlier good sightedness is remembered
still today at 56. My wife is legally blind (corrected 20/400) and she's
a great putter too (seriously). Point is, you don't need to see well to
putt well. You need to be able to read greens, have local knowledge of
the greens you're putting, and have a great feel for the speed of
greens. My wife's feel for speed is nearly "magic" and I've lost a bunch
of bucks in putting green skins to her in my lifetime :)

Putting is like love, it comes and it goes, but when ya got it...it's
special :)
Dave

the Moderator...

I can't hit a golf ball with my bifocals. I have a single lens pair of
glasses for golf.

Mike Dalecki...

I have progressive lenses for my regular glasses; my golf classes are
single-vision.

Consider a set of "golf glasses."

Tom K...

Amazing how age changes your perspective. In my 30's a set of "golf
glasses" would have been matching beer mugs from Baltusrol, Doral, Pebble
Beach...

DJD...

*LOL*

I'll echo Mike's recommendation, get a set of single vision glasses for
golf. I'm not aware of anyone who putts well wearing bi-focal or
tri-focal glasses on the golf course.