Yeah, like I never heard that <\/i>before…you unoriginalbastid!All my life I grew up swinging a bat and hockey stick left-handed while actually being right-handed.<\/p>\n
It never occurred to me how fairly uncommon that is until I started playing golf. I remember walking up to the first tee and setting up and hearing: “Wow, you’re lefty?” WTF is that? Why not just put me in a cage somewhere and draw a crowd? “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls I present Lefto the amazing right-handed lefty! Watch as he writes his name right handed and then swings a club left!” Whoopty-Freakin’-Doo! And what’s with the lame ball-breaking comments? Hey Mr. Golfer Person-Who-Thinks-He\/She-Is-Funny: you and your wise cracks can go kick rocks!<\/p>\n
Everybody knows golf courses were designed for righty’s (probably not true but I’m going with it). Try finding left handed clubs…fuhgedaboutit! Don’t get me wrong, they exist (obviously) but have a very limited selection. For instance, try walking into a golf store and search for their left handed section. It’s like all the way in the back of the store in a corner behind some boxes waiting to be brought to the dumpster. And then the selection! My oh my, what a selection they have…maybe two new sets from last year that are demos and a used set that was pieced together by someones uncle back in the 80’s.<\/p>\n
Now here’s what else I noticed: Righty’s can go into a store, try-out a set and then go purchase them online cheaper. We lefty’s (at least me) do not have that luxury (Is that why I couldn’t find that left-handed Chi Chi Rodriguez wood driver)?<\/p>\n
I understand the right-handed to left-handed ratio is about 9:1 (except in Canada where it is about 7:3…perhaps thanks to ice hockey)? But does that make us any less of a consumer of golf products? Hey, we put out a few greats: Bob Charles, Mike Weir and Phil “FIGJAM” Mickelson. Maybe we should start getting some respect! Just my $.02…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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