An overview of important vision skills for Golf

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Golf is a sport which requires extremely high levels of concentration and precision. Whether for long-range swings to send the ball across the green to the shorter putts as you get closer to the hole, there are many vision skills vital to success. If improved, they can be the difference maker at the competitive level.

Core Visual Skills For Golf

While there are a number of vision skills that are important for golfers, some are more crucial to performance than others.

Core vision skills for golfers include:

Visualization: Visualization enables you to see yourself successfully performing a task, while simultaneously focusing on accomplishing it. Especially in golf, which is a sport that requires intense concentration, visualization is a vital skill.
Visual fixation: This skill enables one to focus on an object for an extended period of time. Enhancing this skill will give a golfer increased ability to concentrate on the ball and the target, enabling a better swing.
Hand-eye coordination: A lot goes into making the perfect swing. Hitting the ball properly, and making sure it flies in the right direction with the right amount of force, requires extreme levels of precision, as does putting the ball. Improving hand-eye coordination can be the difference between a good swing and a great swing.
Depth perception: In order to know which club to use, and in order to hit the ball just right, a golfer must be able to accurately judge the distance between the ball and the target, as well as factoring in the conditions of the green.

Secondary Visual Skills For Golf

Secondary visual skills for golfers aren’t necessarily any less important than core visual skills, though they are not quite as central to what is needed for a racer to be successful.

Secondary visual skills for golfers include:

Eye tracking: This allows one to keep their eye on the ball as it flies or rolls across the green.
Eye focusing: Improved focusing gives increased ability to quickly switch between focusing on near and far objects. Especially for putting, this is an incredibly important skill to improve.
Contrast sensitivity: This skill lets one detect subtle differences in color that might not be apparent to others. On the golfing green, improved contrast sensitivity can help a golfer get a better sense of the green, such as whether the grass is wet or dry, and adjust his approach appropriately.

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Dr. Garbus

Dr. Carl Garbus, FAAO has served patients in Santa Clarita since 1980. The practice is a full scope medical and specialty eye care clinic that emphasizes care for children and adults with vision deficits from traumatic brain injury, stroke and developmental and learning problems. The practice has the latest technology to provide advanced medical eye care services including low vision, specialty contact lenses, myopia management, ocular disease, dry eye and routine eye care/optical.

Dr. Carl Garbus, FAAO has a passion for working with the expanded care team and does extensive work with the leading rehabilitation hospitals around the greater Los Angeles area. He has made various presentations and in-services to optometric societies, occupational therapy groups, and PTA groups regarding vision problems. Another area of interest is working with children who have learning problems. Autism is on the rise and these children have many vision issues that need to be addressed. Dr. Carl Garbus, FAAO serves as the vice president on the board for the Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation Association (NORA) and was the president of the organization in 2010.

Dr. Garbus’s many accomplishments include:

2 term President of NORA (Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation Association)
Awarded the founding father medal from NORA (Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation Association)
Former Chair and long standing member of AOA Vision Rehabilitation Committee
Former president of the Los Angeles County Optometric Society
Member of AOA, COA, NORA
Member of the Academy of optometry FAAO
Hospital privileges and consults at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and Henry Mayo Hospital in Santa Clarita
Works with Centre For Neuro Skills, Solutions At Santa Barbara and the Brain Injury Specialists
Various published articles: Read the articles
Lecturer at AOA (American Optometric Association)

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My eight year old daughter was terrified to go to the eye doctor for fear of her eyes being dilated. The doctor was SO KID friendly! He immediately made her comfortable by engaging her in conversation. It was a geat experience.

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Dr. Garbus spent an amazing amount of time to solve my very complicated visual problems. Over the years he has continually achieved results beyond what others felt possible. He is always up to date on the latest science. He is great!

Dolores K.
Family Vision Care Valencia makes it so easy. Staff is knows what they are doing and Dr. Garbus is thorough and kept me well informed during the exam.

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I have been coming to Family Vision Center for almost 20 years. Dr. Garbus has been able to help my vision when other doctors could not. Now my kids see him as well. I highly recommend this office!

Autumn C.
The Doctor is very good. I felt on this visit he seemed rushed. I had questions to ask him but he was already with another patient. I still do not know if my eyes are the same , worse, or better.

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Testimonials

My eight year old daughter was terrified to go to the eye doctor for fear of her eyes being dilated. The doctor was SO KID friendly! He immediately made her comfortable by engaging her in conversation. It was a geat experience.

Joya B.

Dr. Garbus spent an amazing amount of time to solve my very complicated visual problems. Over the years he has continually achieved results beyond what others felt possible. He is always up to date on the latest science. He is great!

Dolores K.

Family Vision Care Valencia makes it so easy. Staff is knows what they are doing and Dr. Garbus is thorough and kept me well informed during the exam.

Kristy B.

I have been coming to Family Vision Center for almost 20 years. Dr. Garbus has been able to help my vision when other doctors could not. Now my kids see him as well. I highly recommend this office!

Autumn C.

The Doctor is very good. I felt on this visit he seemed rushed. I had questions to ask him but he was already with another patient. I still do not know if my eyes are the same , worse, or better.

Howard B.

All the staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable, and has been for all the years I have been going there.

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