Can anybody play ambidextrous?
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From: John van der Pflum on 27 Feb 2007 11:43 On 27 Feb 2007 08:20:51 -0800, "oconnell(a)slr.orl.lmco.com" <oconnell(a)slr.orl.lmco.com> wrote: >On Feb 26, 9:42 pm, "WW" <dirt...(a)msn.com> wrote: >> I was thinking of getting some used lefty clubs & playing around. I >> know it's hard enough righty but thinking about it...it really is all >> mechanics. > >Phil's right handed, but plays left. Tiger is left handed, but plays >right. Where did you hear that about Tiger? -- jvdp Start clearing your calendars http://www.rsgcincinnati.com
From: gp on 27 Feb 2007 11:44 Does anyone agree with this notion: For a right handed golfer, golf is truly a left handed game? When the left side is in control, so many of the "right' things happen in the golf swing. That's why there've been many great players who play with their "non- dominant" side (Price, Mickelson, Woods(? - I'm not sure if TW is left handed), Hogan, Miller, etc.). On Feb 26, 10:16 pm, "AKA gray asphalt" <goodidea1...(a)hotmail.spam.com> wrote: > "WW" <dirt...(a)msn.com> wrote in message > > news:1172544133.102652.283920(a)a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > > >I was thinking of getting some used lefty clubs & playing around. I > > know it's hard enough righty but thinking about it...it really is all > > mechanics. > > One of Butch Harmon's sons is about two shots worse left handed. I think he > was a 3 and a 1 or something like that about 4 years ago.
From: gp on 27 Feb 2007 11:47 On Feb 27, 10:44 am, "gp" <gophe...(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Does anyone agree with this notion: > > For a right handed golfer, golf is truly a left handed game? When the > left side is in control, so many of the "right' things happen in the > golf swing. > > That's why there've been many great players who play with their "non- > dominant" side (Price, Mickelson, Woods(? - I'm not sure if TW is left > handed), Hogan, Miller, etc.). > > On Feb 26, 10:16 pm, "AKA gray asphalt" > > > This article suggests that TW is NOT left-handed: http://www.golfdigest.com/instruction/index.ssf?/instruction/gd200504tigertips.html > <goodidea1...(a)hotmail.spam.com> wrote: > > "WW" <dirt...(a)msn.com> wrote in message > > >news:1172544133.102652.283920(a)a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > > > >I was thinking of getting some used lefty clubs & playing around. I > > > know it's hard enough righty but thinking about it...it really is all > > > mechanics. > > > One of Butch Harmon's sons is about two shots worse left handed. I think he > > was a 3 and a 1 or something like that about 4 years ago.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
From: oconnell on 27 Feb 2007 11:48 On Feb 27, 11:43 am, John van der Pflum <nowhammymyspa...(a)bite.org> wrote: > On 27 Feb 2007 08:20:51 -0800, "oconn...(a)slr.orl.lmco.com" > > <oconn...(a)slr.orl.lmco.com> wrote: > >On Feb 26, 9:42 pm, "WW" <dirt...(a)msn.com> wrote: > >> I was thinking of getting some used lefty clubs & playing around. I > >> know it's hard enough righty but thinking about it...it really is all > >> mechanics. > > >Phil's right handed, but plays left. Tiger is left handed, but plays > >right. > > Where did you hear that about Tiger? His father if I recall correctly. Had Tiger swinging lefty when he was a wee one. Tiger suddenly noticed that he was swinging differently that Daddy and switched sides. Legend goes that he was as good right as he was left.
From: JC Cluney on 27 Feb 2007 12:06
On 27 Feb 2007 08:20:51 -0800, "oconnell(a)slr.orl.lmco.com" <oconnell(a)slr.orl.lmco.com> wrote: >On Feb 26, 9:42 pm, "WW" <dirt...(a)msn.com> wrote: >> I was thinking of getting some used lefty clubs & playing around. I >> know it's hard enough righty but thinking about it...it really is all >> mechanics. > >Phil's right handed, but plays left. Tiger is left handed, but plays >right. I gotta figure if there was any advantage, other than the >occasional "trick shot" to switching around very much, at >least one of these two would have figured it out. You'll see them >take pretty extreme stances around bunkers and hazards, so >it must be vastly preferable to hitting with an upside down club. >Also must not be worth carrying a lefty wedge either. > > But there was someone who used to claim when they were >having trouble figuring stuff out, they'd switch sides until they >did. Hogan? I knew a gentleman like that. If his right-sided game was off, he'd play another round with a set of lefty clubs he had in his car. The course where he is a member is heavily wooded; he'd normally carry one club (a 7 iron, IIRC) of the opposide side...if he was playing rightie that day, the 7 iron would be a lefty. |