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Mark_Rowlinson

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Left handers
« on: May 31, 2012, 11:32:00 AM »
Architects: Do you have to make any allowances or concessions for left handers when designing a course? I ask because someone with whom I was playing in an away match recently asked me what I thought of their course from the perspective of my playing golf left-handed (although I am naturally right handed). I don't think I do view a course differently, although my tendency to fade long shots (to the left) is a factor.
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Bill_McBride

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Re: Left handers
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2012, 12:09:13 PM »
C. B. MacDonald designed the original Chicago Golf Club to protect him from going OB with his natural left to right tee shots.  With the front nine clockwise around the perimeter, all OB is to the left.

This how Muirfield is routed.   Only right-handed hookers have to worry about the OB.  And lefty slicers!

As I told another lefty lately, lefthanders must play the "Reverse Muirfield" to have their slice protected from the OB!

I don't know of any modern examples of the Muirfield routing.  Two classics I'm aware of are Sonoma Golf Club in California (Sam Whiting 1925), and Columbia Golf Club (now Columbia-Edgewater) in Portland, OR (Macan 1925).
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Howard Riefs

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Re: Left handers
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2012, 12:12:07 PM »
As a left-handed golfer, I believe that the majority of courses are impartial to lefties and righties: Variety of dogleg angles, hazard placements, etc.

The one course that I vividly remember as a chief offender is Fazio's Osprey Point at Kiawah.  The course has water that lines the fairway of 11 holes. How many of these holes feature water on the left?  Nine.

http://www.kiawahresort.com/golf/osprey-point-golf-course/hole-by-hole-review/
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Left handers
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2012, 12:33:10 PM »
Quote from: Bill_McBride on May 31, 2012, 12:09:13 PM
C. B. MacDonald designed the original Chicago Golf Club to protect him from going OB with his natural left to right tee shots.  With the front nine clockwise around the perimeter, all OB is to the left.

This how Muirfield is routed.   Only right-handed hookers have to worry about the OB.  And lefty slicers!

As I told another lefty lately, lefthanders must play the "Reverse Muirfield" to have their slice protected from the OB!

I don't know of any modern examples of the Muirfield routing.  Two classics I'm aware of are Sonoma Golf Club in California (Sam Whiting 1925), and Columbia Golf Club (now Columbia-Edgewater) in Portland, OR (Macan 1925).

Pete,

I'm pretty sure you played that Muirfield routing at Buffalo Peak in Union County.
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Left handers
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2012, 12:34:08 PM »
Interestingly George Thomas' book recommends OB on the right.
I think I love George Thomas. ;D
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