May 3, 2009 10:59 pm US/Pacific
Buy It And Try It: Golf Finder Glasses
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―
Sam Williford calls himself an average golfer, and says he loses a golf ball every other hold. When we talked with him, he was having a good day: He only lost three at the 18-hole Bartley Cavanaugh Course.
When you lose one, the pressure is on to find it fast.
"You really have five minutes, but it's really until the group behind you starts eyeballing you," Sam said.
The Perfect Solutions Golf Ball Finder Glasses are supposed to filter out foliage for instant visual pickup of lost golf balls. On the box, it shows what we normally see, and how these lenses are supposed to make golf balls glow.
Sam hits a couple, and we find them off the fairway.
"We were on number six," Sam said, "we backtracked to number five."
We can easily spot them on the 5th without the glasses, so Sam puts them on to see if they stand out more. He says they don't.
"I don't think it's worth the fashion statement yet," he said. "We haven't been in the rough."
He hits four balls into a small area of rough and goes searching with the glasses on. He spots three of them, but can't find the fourth.
"It just doesn't make anything jump out," Sam said. "It kind of looks the same, with or without."
After several minutes of searching the area, I find the fourth ball without the glasses. Sam isn't impressed.
"The glasses do not help at all," he said. "I actually think without the glasses its easier to see."
We let golfer Arthur Williams give it a try. He has glaucoma, and puts the glasses right over his prescriptions.
"Yes, it glows," he said.
I ran off to hide a ball in the rough, and when we let Arthur search for it with the glasses, he spots it right away.
Arthur said it jumped out at him, and was "much brighter."
Two very different opinions.
I paid $17.95 and bought them from AsSeenOnTVGuys.com.
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