Right handed lefty have any advantages?

tommybc

Since your dominant hand will be more in control of the club rather than your weaker hand? What i mean is (from your own perspective) placing your stronger hand on the top of the club and your weaker hand below it, lets say if you're right handed (playing as a lefty) and you place your right hand on top (or vice-versa for a left handed person)

dan_ep82

Its called cackhanded ( if I'm understanding right) where your left hand is on the bottom of the club.


Plenty of people play with it. Not sure if there is any advantages though, perhaps disadvantages in regards to lessons etc.

Miley Byrne

No, I think he's suggesting a right handed golfer using left handed clubs and using an orthodox left handlers grip. A lá Mickelson

tommybc

denisoc16 wrote: »

No, I think he's suggesting a right handed golfer using left handed clubs and using an orthodox left handlers grip. A lá Mickelson

Yes this is what i meant some say these types have an advantage as the stronger hand is the one controlling the club while the other is just there for the ride

tommybc

denisoc16 wrote: »

No, I think he's suggesting a right handed golfer using left handed clubs and using an orthodox left handlers grip. A lá Mickelson

Yes this is what i meant some say these types have an advantage as the stronger hand is the one controlling the club while the other is just there for the ride, or is this wrong?

ShivasIrons

Greg Rose of the Titleist Performance Institute has a theory, which he calls the big break theory, which is that the the biggest hitters have a history of playing another sport in the opposite direction to their main sport.

He maintains that you can only accelerate as fast as you can decelerate and that playing any sport in the opposite direction gives you much greater deceleration capabilities as you would have been accelerating in the opposite direction, particularly if it was a rotary sport. So left handed hockey, tennis, table tennis, badminton or for us hurling while you were younger could give a great advantage for hitting the golf ball a long way.

tommybc

ShivasIrons wrote: »

Greg Rose of the Titleist Performance Institute has a theory, which he calls the big break theory, which is that the the biggest hitters have a history of playing another sport in the opposite direction to their main sport.

He maintains that you can only accelerate as fast as you can decelerate and that playing any sport in the opposite direction gives you much greater deceleration capabilities as you would have been accelerating in the opposite direction, particularly if it was a rotary sport. So left handed hockey, tennis, table tennis, badminton or for us hurling while you were younger could give a great advantage for hitting the golf ball a long way.

I remember reading something by Phil Mickelson I think it was where he believed it to be an advantage for a person to play left if they have a stronger right. It's to do with the right arm being stronger on the follow through leading to a more balanced swing and being able to keep the club straight on the line.

soundsham

Whatever about playing
There's a lot less gear on offer for lefties

charlieIRL

I'm left handed and play right handed (opposite to what the OP was explaining)...........and I'm still useless at golf!!!!

Dr.Rieux

charlieIRL wrote: »

I'm left handed and play right handed (opposite to what the OP was explaining)...........and I'm still useless at golf!!!!

I'm in the same boat.

wally79

charlieIRL wrote: »

I'm left handed and play right handed (opposite to what the OP was explaining)...........and I'm still useless at golf!!!!

Snap

BoardsMember

charlieIRL wrote: »

I'm left handed and play right handed (opposite to what the OP was explaining)...........and I'm still useless at golf!!!!

Me too. Not useless though

digginz

BoardsMember wrote: »

Me too. Not useless though

Same here, maybe we would be even worth golfer if we were playing with left handed golf clubs...

PARlance

I'm another left hander playing right handed.
God help me if that has been an advantage

Mantis Toboggan

I play left sided but have my right hand on top of the club. Really annoying trying to find left handed clubs.

BoardsMember

digginz wrote: »

Same here, maybe we would be even worth golfer if we were playing with left handed golf clubs...

I used to play left handed but wasn't much good and couldn't find clubs so I changed. I was young, like early teens, but was a good call I think.

Montgolfier

tommybc wrote: »

I remember reading something by Phil Mickelson I think it was where he believed it to be an advantage for a person to play left if they have a stronger right. It's to do with the right arm being stronger on the follow through leading to a more balanced swing and being able to keep the club straight on the line.

This rings a bell with me as I am right handed playing right handed and always struggled with a slice. My right side is dominant causing an over the top swing.
My coach saw this and is working on developing my left side. Swinging a water bottle with the left 20 times a day.

tommybc

if mick was right sided instead of left do you think he would have been better or worse?

DuckSlice

I'm left handed but play right handed. Play off 10 so I'm decent. I always wonder though if a left handed club was handed to me when I started would it have come more natural to me. Someone suggested to me that I should putt left handed!

Montgolfier

Eye dominance video
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nPpwgnEXQxg