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LASIK

Are you trying to lower your golf score? You have probably tried improving your stroke and strengthening your arms, but have you considered your eyes? Think about how much your vision affects your golf game. The better your vision, the better your aim. And it’s clear that LASIK surgery is now an established option in pro golf – like another new club in the bag. And of course the procedure’s benefits have spread to many other sports as well.

“Fred Funk was the first professional golfer to have LASIK with me in 1998,” says Dr. Mark Whitten. “He was the beginning of people understanding that is wasn’t a debilitating type of procedure, that people could function right afterwards at peak efficiency.” Funk had his procedure two days before the start of the Kemper Open in 1998. Playing without his contacts or glasses for the first time in his career, Funk proceeded to shatter the event’s 36-hole record with a blistering 12-under start.

Hundreds of professional golfers, caddies and club professionals have come to Dr. Whitten to improve their games, looking for the extra edge that great vision can bring. But great vision won’t help you get a longer drive. “All golfers will tell you the same thing,” says Dr. Whitten. “Where it really matters is your putting.”

Whitten says that the improved vision in both eyes instantly gives the golfer a fuller, more rounded sense of the hole and the breaks of the green. “You have much better 3-D perception of how the putt is going to roll,” says Dr. Whitten, who has had laser vision correction surgery on his own eyes and is a regular on the course at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, MD and at Breton Bay Country Club in Leonardtown, MD. “Every golfer to a man or a woman who I’ve operated on has told me the same thing.”

At Whitten Laser Eye, we can’t say that having LASIK will improve your golf score. But we can certainly say it will improve your vision…the rest is up to you!





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