A Scoping Review of the Associations of Golf with Eye Injuries in Adults and Children

Table 3

Consequences of golf-related ocular injury.

Study	Cause of injury		Number needing surgery (number of eyes)	Number of globe ruptures (number of eyes)	Blindness in at least one eye (number of eyes)
	Golf club (number of children injured)	Golf ball (number of children injured)
Burnstine and Elner [8]	2 (2)	7 (0)	9	8	6
Fradkin et al.^⧫ [6]	—	—	—	—	—
Gregory^⧫ [14]	0 (—)	2 (—)	—	—	—
Hink et al. [9]	10 (10)	1 (1)	9	1	2
Jayasundera et al. [10]	4 (4)	7 (0)	7	5	2
Jones^⧫ [15]	—	—	—	—	—
Mieler et al. [11]	2 (0)	6 (2)	8	4	3
Millar^⧫+ [16]	4 (1)	3 (1)	2	2	2
Park et al. [12]	0 (0)	22 (0)	15	5	7
Portis et al.^⧫ [18]	8 (—)	3 (—)	11	—	11
Takatama et al. [17]	—	7 (—)	7	—	4
Townley et al. [13]	3 (1)	7 (3)	7	3	7
Total	33 (18)	65 (7)	75	28	44

Not included in synthesis of results.
Incidence of child striking glass with a golf club resulting in a perforating injury.
One incidence of ocular injury from a golf cart crash.