Hats to you lefty for trying this. Most people struggle to get below 10 (myself included) playing the same way for years. For you to already be good at golf they decided you want a different challenge is pretty cool
Hats to you lefty for trying this. Most people struggle to get below 10 (myself included) playing the same way for years. For you to already be good at golf they decided you want a different challenge is pretty cool
Best I can do left handed is upside down wedge swung left handed goes alright
With a 7 iron that aint even close to stiff.
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With a 7-iron? No chance.
Tour Pros are only swinging 7 iron 90-95 also. They just have everything maximised to always hit centre clubface, optimum launch angles and spin levels etc. And they do it effortlessly too. Mine's lacking control, LOL.
Actually, just looking at my Cool Clubs fitting I was only swinging a lefty 6 iron at 86.
Someones data don't seem right...
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Yeah that’s odd
I did a swing speed test yesterday with a 7 iron which had some gadget attached to the shaft to measure it. Was about 88mph and recommended DG S300. If I swung lefty it would probably be half that 🤣
Another bloke on the "journey". Swings it pretty good
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First time out with the righty set this year, and have officially shot my first right handed round "under 'cap". 87-16-71. As is always the case right handed though, an adventurous way to get there.
A lovely topped drive on 1 lead to an easy double to start the day, and missed an easy 5 footer on 2 for par.
Back to back pars was then followed by a chunked tee shot and another double on 5. Bogey on 6, and a lovely "jug" for putting off the green on 7 lead to another double. Relatively uneventful bogeys on 8 and 9 resulted in a 10 over par 47 on the front.
Made a solid start on the back nine, parring the 10th, 12th and 13th, with a penalty shot for hitting it in the piss off the tee causing bogey on 11. Another chunked tee shot on the long par 3 14th caused my second "jug" of the day, but managed to save bogey by actually hitting a chip somewhat like a golf shot. Hit a lovely driver and 4-wood combo to be just short of the par 5 15th in two, but temporarily forgot how to play golf and walked off with furiously frustrating bogey. Managed to somehow get through the tough 7th with a bogey, meaning if I made a par and a bogey on the 17th and 18th I'd shoot under cap for the first time.
I made a lovely pressure 4-footer (I know, right!?) on 17 for the par and a knuckleball driver down the last to be around 130m out, in the right rough. With a scary back left flag on 18 I just wanted to hit centre green and try and make the two-putt, but I slid under and blocked the PW into the bunker, forcing me to rely on my short game "skills". They were non-existent yet again, and I had to make another pressure curling 2 footer (2 in a row, get ****ed!) for the bogey. It went in, resulting in a 5 over par 40 on the back nine, and the rest is history.
3 / 14 effective tee shots
3 / 18 GIR
4 / 15 Up n Downs
32 putts
6 pars
9 bogeys
3 doubles
Horrible stats, really, but shows you don't have to hit every fairway and green to get the ball around, and most importantly it was my first triple-bogey free round.
So that's the first handicap reduction that has taken place, 15.5 in to 14.9. Now to build on this, one or two more fairways, one or two more GIR and more importantly, a better up and down ratio and I can hopefully push towards the mid 80's consistently.
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Is it difficult to dumb your golf brain down to your righty handicap? ( for lack of better way of phrasing that) so that you play within yourself.
I must say it is a bit, yeah. Obviously any ball that's not in an ideal situation the first thought that comes to mind is how to escape it, and that's usually with the left handed mindset. I then have to check myself, and realise that A) I move the ball a different direction right handed, B) I don't have anywhere remotely near the fine control over it righty as lefty, and C) I don't HAVE to play the miraculous escape shot as I don't HAVE to make par. Most of the times it's not an issue, but I have hit a number of shots where it wouldn't be too much of a problem for lefty, but ol' righty thinks he's just as capable. And that's when the triples start. I'm sure you'd still be shooting the lights out if you played semi-regularly bud.
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Your first 4 stats look kinda like mine, but with 5 to 10 more strokes to the score!
I think I posted about it a while ago, but I read an article regarding the average stats recorded by accos???? for golfers of various hc's up to tour pro, and they really didn't look flattering for the scores shot. Even the average TP stats weren't what you'd think.
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Considering the tee shots on 1, 5 and 14 the net 71 shows that with a bit of righty short game focus you could be as low as you want.
Did you win the B grade medal?
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Clearly all the burglars are in B Grade.[/QUOTE]
always been the case in every club!
First time out in a while (barring some heavily drunken shenanigans at CoC), but ran the righties today.
A definite tale of two halves, with a few misses right early, managing to catch a couple of cart paths and hazards. Made some miracle recovery shots / up and downs / putts to keep the 2-pointers rolling though, and was only 8 over the card / 1 over cap through 8 holes, before things clicked.
3 consecutive regulation pars on 9, 10 & 11 got the round on track, disappointingly followed by a couple of soft bogeys. Hit the 205m par 3 14th and 2-putted for 3 more points, then hit a laser 3 wood from 225m on 15 that never left the flag, finishing 3 foot dead behind the cup, which was tapped in for 4 points.
Miracle 5/2 on 16, then drained a 20-footer for birdie on 17 for 3 more points. Solid drive down 18 and a wedge to centre green, 2 more putts for a 4/3 and 18/25 for 43 points.
Gross 45-35-80 (first even par 9 right handed)
First eagle
7/14 Fairways
8/18 GIR
4/8 Up N Downs
30 putts
Cap drop from 14.9 to 12.2
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At the risk of giving you a big head mate, that's an elite level of coordination. Very impressive
Happiness is a long walk with a putter.
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Well, I wasn't that far off....
Handicap down to 12 after my last round, I started well with 2 regulation pars before the third came and bit me on the ass like it always does, left OR right handed. Wiped that, and with a couple of 3 pointers and a couple of one pointers turned in 16 points.
Par, bogey, bogey, par though the first 4 holes had me back to just one over cap before disaster struck on 14, taking double. Recovered with a par on 15, and that's basically all she wrote. A wild drive on 16 lead to a wipe, a pushed tee shot and failed up and down on 17 garnered a point, and a bladed wedge on 18 finished the job for another wipe. 28 points through 15 and a decent chance to again shoot in the mid 80's would've been nice, to finish with 29 was very disappointing.
7 / 14 Fairways
6 / 18 GIR
30 putts (2 holes of pre-green wipes though)
Still need to work on the short game, costing too many shots at this stage.
No handicap movement, still 12.2...
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Chris Kirk didn’t touch his right-handed clubs for two months after BMW Championship. He leaned into practicing his lefty game and shot his best score of 82 in the fall.
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