It’s inevitable. For the past few years it seems I couldn’t wait for the warmer weather and golf season. When it finally came, so did the allergies. I don’t ever remember having allergies like this. I know, I know…the human body goes through changes every X amount of years blah blah blah. But I think that’s a bunch of hooey. I’ve yet to see supported documentation from a reputable medical source on that.

Yet, I have allergies now and didn’t before, hmmmm. Rather odd if you ask me. Regardless of why, it’s time to do something about it. I want to golf symptom free. No feeling crappy, or watery-eyes and sinus head aches. What to do, what to do? Well, I’ve  looked into precautions and remedies and came across some interesting and weird stuff.

There’s the no-brainer stuff like using otc allergy meds or getting a script from the doctor for something stronger. According to data from aafa.org (Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America),  you might want to avoid the mid day tee times when the pollen count is highest. Also, playing on true links style courses with very few (if any) trees but unfortunately, this is the U.S. and  true links style courses are the minority.

Obviously, we can take the prescriptions and otc drugs but some people prefer more natural relief. They rather do it with the least amount of chemical intervention as possible. Stuff like, eating local honey, cool mist humidifiers and saline nasal rinses seem to be common natural methods of keeping allergies to a minimum.

Whatever path you may choose, the goal here is to hit the local track and enjoy your round symptom free. What are you doing still reading this? Get out there already!

Hit’em long…yell FORE!!!