Golfers beware.
I post this because I think it is a load of @#@+$%#*, and it will be interesting to hear what others think. On the news yesterday it told of a man who has just got tinnitus. His doctors, note I say...
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The clubs are titanium. On our news this morning it said that using the clubs caused hearing loss, not tinnitus. They doctors thought it so important to warn people teeing off to wear earplugs. Is...
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Shame on those doctors, and my utmost sympathy to the poor man whose time and money has been wasted on these morons.
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Yes, Lilly, it is. Anything to do with golf is of very critical importance. You tell me, what could be more important? As I thought, you can't answer that question...because nothing is more important.
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If as claimed the noise made is louder than a gun shot then the warnings are surely justified.
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okay..the titanium and hearing loss part makes a difference..I retract my statement condemning the doctors. I hate golf .. watching it, playing it, everything about it! .. except Tiger Woods.
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I play golf...A LOT OF GOLF..probably 3 or 4 times a week. The sound made by the ball hitting a titanium club is nothing like a gunshot or hitting a nail with a hammer. The original metal clubs that...
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Sedgie wrote: Yes, Lilly, it is. Anything to do with golf is of very critical importance. You tell me, what could be more important? As I thought, you can't answer that question...because nothing is...
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I played golf up until a few years ago. I've never heard so much garbage. Sure some clubs make a ping, but it lasts 1/100th of a second and it's really not that noisy. Clubs also have graphite shafts...
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this is one of the articles i've read about Golf and Hearing impairment . http://www.thaindian.com/...e-you-deaf_100138156.html
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Actually, the new titanium headed clubs *do* make an alarmingly loud noise with the newer balls (something like a PRO V). I borrowed one from a friend recently and oddly enough, a gunshot was exactly...
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here is one of the other articles i read, i believe its a good thing that they are now thinking about the noise pollution going on, even in beloved sports....
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Sally, reading what you wrote is quite disturbing. What are they doing to this game? What has become of this world where it is now suggested that you were earplugs when playing golf. Always thought...
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Sedgie, if it wasnt for these kinds of experiments to look into the whys of hearing loss or tinnitus or any other ailment then how do you expect to have "cures" or prevention of these? i wear ear...
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Sally, I also wear earplugs for alot of activities. What I'm saying is that now they are finding that a great many things can cause hearing loss and/or tinnitus. My use of the words insane world was...
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as hard as bubba watson, john daly, tiger woods and jb holmes hit the ball then they are sure to get t.
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Here is the text of the original piece in the British Medical Journal: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/co...NDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT Here is the guy's audiogram, showing a huge hearing loss in the high...
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I can't believe this thread is still going on. I told you in my post about the noise level of hitting a golf ball with titanium clubs(which are not new and have been around since for around 20 years....
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Peachoid; Golf is a game you can never win, you can only play. In that respect it emulates life. Are you sure you don't want to now change your opinion?
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