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Quote from: Ronald Montesano on April 13, 2014, 10:57:35 PMAugusta is an easy course for a righty with a controlled draw. #newsEspecially one who hits the ball 365 yards off the tee, and has wedges into par 5s with his second shot. Say everything about Bubba's game was the same -- length, creativity, flight path (right to left) -- but he was a righty. So instead of fading the ball, he drew it, albeit from the right side. Would he not do as well at Augusta?
Augusta is an easy course for a righty with a controlled draw. #news
I think this lefty thing is a product of a mass media grasping at straws for something new to write. Shame on us, supposed golf experts, for falling for it.Augusta is an easy course for a righty with a controlled draw. #news
"Mizuno says only 3% of USA golfers are LH and close to 20% of Canadians due to Hockey.."Mike Y. -Legend has it the highest percentage of lefty golfers in the world is in the area around Kingussie-Newtonmare in the Scottish Highlands, where the game of shinty (a field hockey-like game) is very popular.From David Owen's 2007 article in Golf Digest:"When we had finished, we had a drink with a group of regulars sitting at two picnic tables outside the clubhouse. One of them told me, "Kingussie has more left-handed and cross-handed players than any other golf club in the world" -- a consequence, he said, of the town's intense devotion to shinty, a bruising Highlands stick game that is similar to the Irish sport hurling (from which it evolved) and to field hockey, and in which there is a tactical advantage to playing from the wrong side of the ball, apparently. No, no, another member insisted: There are more left-handed golfers in Newtonmore, Kingussie's principal shinty rival, three miles to the west. The conversation then veered into a discussion of Newtonmore's golf course, which my new friends unanimously dismissed as too flat to bother with." DT
I enjoyed last year's Mickelson analysis of how 12 is easier for lefties than righties.On the crucial 12th hole, though, lefties have a big advantage, as Phil explains: "Another example would be 12, where it sits along our shot dispersion for lefty. So if we aim over the bunker and we pull it a little bit, it goes longer, right? And we can get to that back right pin. If we come out of it, it goes short left and still catches the green. So 12 as a whole where we get aggressive. Bubba and I we're thinking too, and we're getting after wherever the pin is, where as a right-handed player where it sits opposite their shot dispersion, they've got to be a little bit more cautious on that shot."