| When the occasional ball under or behind the most | | | | handed golf clubs on the course, because they prefer |
| awkward of obstructions might sometimes lead even | | | | it, feel more comfortable and most likely play better |
| a right hander to dream of a set of left handed golf | | | | that way! Strange but true. |
| clubs, they are no joke, with just as specific and | | | | Many well known golfers have played left-handed, |
| precise design required as those used much more | | | | yet in real life are right-handed, perhaps more to do |
| commonly for right handers. | | | | with how they were taught not be than their true |
| Not simply putting the shaft on the other side of the | | | | characteristic. Golfers like Phil Mickelson, a |
| head, which might seem a logical enough solution to | | | | multi-championship winning left handed golfer, even |
| the layman, the whole thing has to be a carefully | | | | though he too is right handed in real life. |
| designed mirror image and as such, pretty well all | | | | Often, usually because of being forced at school |
| parts are specific to left handed golf clubs in | | | | (especially for older people, when schooling was more |
| manufacture. | | | | draconian!), the way people were encouraged to |
| For men and women, adult and child, there is a whole | | | | write will be carried through your life, but that doesn't |
| specific range created alongside most of the brands | | | | mean it's natural. |
| that are made. And when a new, upgraded product is | | | | So, when there's a choice, like when learning a game |
| released, left handed golf clubs within that brand and | | | | like golf, and old enough to make one's own |
| range, won't be far behind, if at all. | | | | decisions, people defer back to their preference. And |
| In addition, although it might be an easy solution for | | | | that might be when more left handed golf clubs get |
| manufacturers, left handed golf clubs are not just | | | | preferred, selected and bought. |
| made in matched sets. No, there are also individual | | | | Even if a golfer has the capability to be ambidextrous |
| clubs available so that connoisseurs of the game can | | | | (use both right and left hands as a preference pretty |
| create their own bespoke sets to get the best from | | | | equally), only a certain number of clubs can be |
| their own, particular game. | | | | carried, by the rules of the game, so a choice has to |
| Being left handed can be something of a curse to | | | | be made. And it is usually the choice of how they |
| those with the affliction. Whilst they themselves are | | | | feel most comfortable when holding the club. |
| perfectly happy with it, despite their being | | | | In a world of continuing change and one where |
| disadvantaged sometimes in a majority right handers | | | | commercial requirements drive punters to buy the |
| world, they probably have grown up with the | | | | 'next best thing' to improve their game that little |
| occasional unfair comment, just because they are in a | | | | sliver more, manufacturers continue to make design |
| minority (around 8-15% of the population). Sadly, | | | | changes on both right and left handed golf clubs. |
| that's the way of the world. | | | | Those changes that develop the technology for |
| It's still a very substantial number of potential | | | | right-handers are just as effectively applied when left |
| customers and the world's leading manufacturers | | | | handed golf clubs are designed and manufactured |
| have ensured that their efforts in making left handed | | | | too. |
| golf clubs are every bit as good as those for right | | | | So, if that's what you need, feel secure in the |
| handers. | | | | understanding that the manufacturer of the next set |
| Yet things are not always as they seem. Choosing | | | | of left handed golf clubs you buy to suit your left |
| left doesn't always make it right! You see some | | | | handedness, will have applied just the same |
| people are left handed for some things and right | | | | technology to yours as the more popular right |
| handed for others. It's a strange quirk of those | | | | handed sets they sell as well. |
| individuals who might write, right handed, yet use left | | | | |