Is there something peculiarly sinister about us?

[ForkaB]

That's possible, Dan, but libelous.

[TEPaul]

"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......"

Rich:

Definitely!

All left-handers are sinister just as Latin said they were.

As for Max Behr, he's the only one who did think straight in a world of people who were thinking like a crooked road. Obviously many still are thinking crooked including all those like you who don't think Max thought straight.  

But instead of these occasional gratuitous remarks of yours that Max didn't think straight, perhaps you'd like to explain why you don't think he thought straight.  

But we should all realize, Rich, that all lefthanders probably are sinister simply because they're constantly in a foul mood with the realization that basically no golf architecture was designed for them. It was all designed for us right-handers who are good, moral, righteous and clear thinking and who live our lives on the sun-lit uplands of life.

[Lou_Duran]

Rich,

Thanks for helping to clarify why I have a hard time understanding where Childs, Cirba, and Moriarty are coming from.  Imagine being the only one from the proper side in the same foursome with these guys.  Tiger confessing that he's of the Johnny Miller type (confused: plays golf right-handed but dominantly left otherwise), solves another mystery.  A good, productive Monday morning.    

[Geoffrey Childs]

Rich,

Thanks for helping to clarify why I have a hard time understanding where Childs, Cirba, and Moriarty are coming from.  

Lou - are you talking golf here?  

[Tim Bert]

Add two more to the list of lefties here - Tim Bert and Alan Gard.  

Alan's brother also plays lefty, and there's something really nice about taking a golf trip and having 3/4 of your group swing the right way.  It used to look realy awkward to me to see a lefty swing, but I've become quite used to it.

[Gary Slatter]

Must be the high % of northern CGAs. The further north you go the % of Lefties in golf increases.  I have to consider this when we have corporate groups, from Mn or Canada, lots of left handed clubs required; from California, just a few.
I think it might be a hockey influence, don't know how it works in Australia.

[Evan Fleisher]

Don't forget about me!

I try NOT to hit a slice ball and have been working on htting the ball straight or slightly left to right, so the Redan thing spoken about above is true for me as well...not so good from my eye's perspective.

[Lou_Duran]

Evan,

How could I forget?

Geoffrey,

Golf and pretty much anything else.

I will admit that some of the prettiest, rythmic swings I've seen in amateurs are owned by lefties.  It could very well have to do with the architecture not being in their favor and having to become better shotmakers.  

[Geoffrey Childs]

Geoffrey,

Golf and pretty much anything else.

Lou

Thanks for the clarification.  Happy Holidays to you and yours.

[Garland Bayley]

Don't forget about me!
...

Ditto!

I supose a few people have already cocluded that I am peculiarly sinister.

[Michael Moore]

I write, eat and play tennis left-handed, but golf, bat and chop wood righty.

I find this to be a tremendous combination for clubhead speed - there is something very liberating about gripping and whipping with the dominant hand that really allows one to freewheel.

[Garland Bayley]

Must be the high % of northern CGAs. The further north you go the % of Lefties in golf increases.  I have to consider this when we have corporate groups, from Mn or Canada, lots of left handed clubs required; from California, just a few.
I think it might be a hockey influence, don't know how it works in Australia.

Not sure this holds up. Especially since I understand poor Ryan Simper has to put up with three lefty playing partners, D Moriaty, D Kelly, and L Schakelford at Rustic Canyon nearly every weekend.

[Lou_Duran]

Geoffrey,

Same to you.  And many great new golf adventures.

The only thing I've disliked about playing golf with lefties is sometimes feeling that I am standing in the wrong place when they're over the ball.  I can't recall ever playing with more than two at one time, and only once when I was in a minority.

Mike M,

I believe that Nicklaus is left side dominant as is Johnny Miller.  Leading with the strong side must be a real advantage.  Interesting that with very young kids getting professional instruction early on, more don't choose to swing from the opposite side (though more understandable with the right side dominant).
 

[George Pazin]

I write, eat and play tennis left-handed, but golf, bat and chop wood righty.

I'd have bet a lot of money that I was the only one who did this.

Actually, I'm even more screwed up - when I played tennis (pre shoulder problems), I served righty and hit two handed backhands from each side.