American Blind Golf

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January 16, 2012

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Eye Sight Classifications for Competition

The following categories are accepted  world wide in the sport of blind golf.


B-1 No light perception, or light perception which is not functional, central or peripheral, with or without light projection, up to the inability to differentiate between a blank sheet of white paper and a sheet of white paper with a black symbol on it.


 B-2   From the ability to recognize the shape of a hand up to visual acuity of 20/600.


B-3   From the visual acuity above 20/600 up to visual acuity of less than 20/200.  Legal blindness is defined as 20/200 in the better eye with best correction, or having a field of vision that is less than 20 degrees in the better eye.

 

All classifications are in best eye with best correction.

 


 

 

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