Is there something peculiarly sinister about us?

[ForkaB]

Am I the only one that has noticed that a disproptionately high % of GCA participants golf lefthanded?  Is there a correlation between this anomaly and our predisposition towards golf holes which are bassackwards (e.g. Redans) and writers who can't think straight (like Max Behr)?

Just wondering......

[Mike_Cirba]

Rich,

Sinister yes, but not only are we more creative, we're generally better looking.    

[PThomas]

Rich,

we're generally better looking.    

being the season of Christmas, I shall simply say "No comment"

[Marty Bonnar]

Ah-hah!
This'll be the little-known 'Balbirnie Paradigm', won't it?

The one where the more verbally dextrous are generally shown to be the more golfally sinistrous, no?

How's the tooth?

FBD.

[Mike_Cirba]

being the season of Christmas, I shall simply say "No comment"

Paul,

Thanks for showing mercy.  

Just my little way of poking fun at stereotypes.  

[John Kavanaugh]

I think given the fact that most golf courses are designed for right handers it is natural that the south paw would come by the study of why that is quite naturally.  I always enjoy how awkward many holes must be from the other side.

[ForkaB]

You are right John.  I'd give my left nut to be able to slice a high floater down the heart of a redan.

[JESII]

Yes, but you would hate playing #18 at Pebble...

[John Kavanaugh]

You are right John.  I'd give my left nut to be able to slice a high floater down the heart of a redan.

Eureka...You have solved the mystery of the love of the redan by the intellectual elite.  They are left handed and it is the one shot in golf that fits their eye.

[Mike_Cirba]

Actually, John...you're wrong again, which I see is becoming a habit.

I'm sure Geoffrey Childs will concur with me that we'd much rather play a reverse redan than a redan.   I have a left to right ballflight that doesn't play nicely with the redan at all, and usually the best I can hope for is to miss just right.  

Redans suck for a lefty, as I imagine they do for a righthanded slicer.

[John Kavanaugh]

Mike,

You baffle me again.  To study architecture without being able to work the ball both ways is like being a food critic and smoking during dinner.

[John Kavanaugh]

Eureka...Now I know why the intellectual elite hate trees..they can't work the ball.

[Mike_Cirba]

Mike,

You baffle me again.  To study architecture without being able to work the ball both ways is like being a food critic and smoking during dinner.

John,

Your analogy makes no sense, clever thought it may sound.

[Chris Kane]

Rich, was it Sean Walsh who tipped you over the edge?

[John Kavanaugh]

Mike,

Don't you agree that smoking dulls the senses in a manner that would inhibit the food critic.  Isn't texture, taste and smell import aspects that should not be missed.

[Noel Freeman]

Geoff Childs is a particularly evil and sinister left hander.. I'll besmirch his good reputation here..

[Mike_Cirba]

John,

Everyone has a preferred, predominate ball flight.  I can fade the ball, but find that I generally give up too much distance, especially in windy conditions as I also tend to hit the ball high.  

You don't need to be able to drive the ball 375 yards like John Daly to understand that he can do it.  

[Mike_Cirba]

Geoff Childs is a particularly evil and sinister left hander..

That's the first sensible thing anyone has said on this thread.

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

I am Tiger and I am left handed.

[Geoffrey Childs]

Eureka...Now I know why the intellectual elite hate trees..they can't work the ball.

John

First- This intelectual elitist nonsense you are pushing on some while claiming to be a simple hillbilly is among the most humorous things you have tried to push on this board.  We all know know that act by now and it is quite clear that they breed smart folk in the country and the city.  You are brighter then almost all of the sushi eaters in New York City.

As to the redan - Hate that shot.  It doesn't fit my eye at all.  If I could feel comfortable working the ball at will with a nice controlled trajectory to account for the wind then I would not be here right now curing cancer.

[Noel Freeman]

Geoff Childs is a particularly evil and sinister left hander..

That's the first sensible thing anyone has said on this thread.

Mike-- Do not run afoul of the Good Herr Doctor... He pretty much owes me for his golfing goodness this year.. We are talking about a stingy curmudgeon who I had to DRAG, yes DRAG to Lawsonia b/c he poor aching back was bothering him..Oh poor baby.. And HE LOVED IT.. He also at playing Chicago GC a second time b/c he wanted to spend the time with Shel Solow (understandable given how Shel is a mensch).. He's a good friend but he moaned oh, how he moaned about having to play a top 50 course.

[Geoffrey Childs]

Thank you Noel

I want a divorce!

[Noel Freeman]

Thank you Noel

I want a divorce!

Not unless you pay me reparations! And alimony for all the rounds we played..

[ForkaB]

Rich, was it Sean Walsh who tipped you over the edge?

Chris

It was actually Buda IV (where at least 4 of the 18 or so participants played left-handed) which inspired this hyopthesis.  My few holes with Sean (and FBD) on Saturday just reinforced it.

FBD

Based on the above, I prefer to call it the Balbirnie Confirmation of the Hoylake Conjecture.

[Dan Kelly]

Rich --

Could be that the southpaws -- for one reason or another   -- find GCA.com gatherings more attractive?

Dextrously,
Dan