Left Handed handicap for Rh

[SGC001]

Are you allowed to get a handicap for playing RH and another one for playing LH?

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I wouldn't have thought so and why would you want to

 

[DaveM]

Play which ever handed you want. But only one handicap per person.

 

[SGC001]

I wouldn't have thought so and why would you want to

Shame if you can't. A few reasons have interested me.

Golf is a very 1 sided game which can lead to muscle imbalances and injuries. Swinging the other way is one way to combat these imbalances (a friend sorted out his issues with his back caused from another 1 sided sport this way).

I've friends who've just started, this would even it up.

It'd be interesting to learn again from scratch, it would give the opportunity of trying other methods and to really appreciate the difficulty and timescale involved in creating a workable swing.

I'm very bad left handed and would be interested to see how much room their is for improvement, a guy who I was at uni with was right footed and his left foot was better in football because he practiced twice as hard on it (although that is better for a defender ).

I'm going to give learning left handed a go sooner rather than later.

 

[wull]

 

[Karl102]

I played in a stableford competition with a chap who had played the previous week with one of our very talented juniors. He asked our junior whats your handicap and the youngster replied 4.7 right handed and about 16 left handed.
He thought he was taking the p*ss, but the following week saw him hitting a left handed club sweet as a nut!
Cocky bu**ers these young ones!!!

 

[HawkeyeMS]

It would be interesting to learn again from scratch? My word.

I have enough trouble playing right handed, and I am very right handed. Learning to play left handed is the last thing I would call interesting

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I can't get it right now so going back to the drawing board and playing the other way is never going to happen. I've tried a few times over the years at the range etc to hit it left handed but I posed a huge H&S to everyone withing a 30 yard circumference and I do include behind ne in that

 

[BubbaP]

Not sure about this, but worth noting that Phil Mickleson and Mike Weir are both right handed in everything but golf...

 

[stevie_r]

Shame if you can't. A few reasons have interested me.

Golf is a very 1 sided game which can lead to muscle imbalances and injuries. Swinging the other way is one way to combat these imbalances (a friend sorted out his issues with his back caused from another 1 sided sport this way).

I've friends who've just started, this would even it up.

It'd be interesting to learn again from scratch, it would give the opportunity of trying other methods and to really appreciate the difficulty and timescale involved in creating a workable swing.

I'm very bad left handed and would be interested to see how much room their is for improvement, a guy who I was at uni with was right footed and his left foot was better in football because he practiced twice as hard on it (although that is better for a defender ).

I'm going to give learning left handed a go sooner rather than later.

There are frequently tips and ideas on here that are potentially useful, if I weren't too lazy to actually try them.
There are those that aren't that useful.
And then there's the suggestion of re-learning the game crack handed, I'll put this in a category all of its own

 

[Liverbirdie]

I belive that Brian Lara (the cricketer) didn't want golf to interfere with his cricket "swing", so he played golf wrong-handed. He played to 1 the last time I heard.

Bloody talented sod!!!!!

 

[Region3]

I'm sure I read somewhere that Seve would be about a 5hc left handed, and I think Shawn Clement (popular YouTube lessons chappie) can play to scratch left or right handed!

 

[SGC001]

I played in a stableford competition with a chap who had played the previous week with one of our very talented juniors. He asked our junior whats your handicap and the youngster replied 4.7 right handed and about 16 left handed.
He thought he was taking the p*ss, but the following week saw him hitting a left handed club sweet as a nut!
Cocky bu**ers these young ones!!!

Was he just guessing at what his handicap would be left handed to give an approximation?

I think Mickleson was scratch left handed as well.

I'm not suggesting everyone should try it, though it may help if you have to turn a club around and hack from some trouble on the left.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

...I think Mickleson was scratch left handed as well....

I should blooming well hope so !!!!

 

[SGC001]

I should blooming well hope so !!!!

Ok who abused their mod powers and undetectably edited my post (Insert smiley wink)

Oops I meant right handed, cheers