Posts Tagged "Golf"
Review – Sunglasses
As a birthday gift this year Susie bought me a pair of Adidas Adivista Vario glasses.
I had been wanting to get a pair since I learned about them back in February at the Golf Show. The are designed specifically for playing golf with a few key features:
1) They have adjustable temple pieces that allow for various different positions, depending on what activity you are doing and where the sun is in the sky. The 3 positions don’t change the angle of the lens by much, but enough to take some glare off your eyes for key shots. Also, I like the option of positions for driving / riding.
2) The Vario LST lens technology. I was going to try and describe this but someone else already did a great job:
“During a 5 hour round a golfer may experience an extreme variance in lighting conditions. The adivista’s “photochromic” lenses provide the “perfect lighting” via a “Light Stabilizing Technology or “LST.” The adivista’s LST helps keep the player’s eyes relaxed even when switching from extreme dark to light conditions. For instance, during a typical golf shot the player looks down at the ball and up to the horizon several times. In the case of Jose Maria Olazabal it may be several dozen times. The discrimination in brightness between the 2 can be 20x or more, causing the player’s eyes to need major adjustment in how much light is let in. This can cause extreme fatigue and compromise the player’s focus and ability to hit good shots. LST allows the golfer’s eyes to remain relaxed, preventing fatigue and promoting better play.”
3) The glasses are extremely lightweight, once again great for playing the entire round without falling off. Also, when dropped they hold up well. I’m surprised how few scratches there are on my lens given how often I use them. The style is a wrap-around lens with slim flexible arms. The arms were a very important factor for me as there aren’t many pairs of glasses that comfortably fit inside a full face motorcycle helmet.
The overall appearance is very sporty so I’m sure that they aren’t intended to be an everyday wear, but I’ve pretty much dropped or lost all of my other sunglasses so they are all I am wearing this summer.
My wife thinks that sporty is not acceptable for a lot of cases (e.g. Weddings). She is the fashionista of the house so I’m sure she’s right, but I like them so much that I’m willing to look a little inappropriate at times.
Overall a great pair of glasses that I would buy again.
N
GTA Golf Club
One of my favourite hobbies is the frustrating and irritating game of golf. My biggest problem is that I don’t get enough rounds in to improve my game to the point where I can consider myself a decent golfer.
Don’t get me wrong, I have flashes of brilliance, particularly with my handy Lob Wedge. I sometimes have huge drives too. I just can’t seem to out them together on the same hole, or for back to back holes.
So this year I decided to do something about it. I have forced myself to play a minimum of 35 rounds this year by paying for them up front.
Sam and I joined GTA GOLF CLUB with their Eagle package. In addition to any business golf that I play, I have now covered all of my costs for the year in green fees. If I don’t play all the round, then my average dost per round goes way up because I hve already laid out the cash.
It’s a great deal. It works out to $35 per round, including taxes, at courses that I would already be playing if I use all of the rounds.
Check this out:
View GTA Golf Clubs in a larger map
This is a map that I made of where all the courses are located, an how much it is to play each course. I get a $35 credit towards every round.
For the blue pins, the $35 is more than the round would cost just to show up with the membership, so I’ll be playing those after my free rounds are used up.
The green pins are within $5 of the value of the included rounds so these will be where I spend most of my time.
The red pins are a little bit more to play, but often for a much nicer or more challening course. I will go to a few of these because I do like those courses, but I won’t go as much as green.
I am really looking forward to this golf season.
Read More