I play left but I’m right hand dominant. May top playesr on the PGA tour are left handed playing right handed. I think you should try both when you start playing golf.
Let me help you get a effortless golfswing with speed and accuracy. A good release will help you to a better impact and longer drives and irons without slice and hook.
Long and straight is every ones goal but it takes time. Try to focus on one thing not everything when you practise. Impact, face control and swingpath will always be the most important part to drill. We focus too much on rotation but no good golf shot will be executed just by rotating.
I’m naturally right handed but all my tips works for both left handed and right handed golfers.
We also need to understand that many myths in golf are misleading. We shall not keep our head still, only start with the hips, look only at the ball or keep the left or right arm straight.
If you use callaway, ping, titleist or taylor made clubs doesn’t matter you can learn to hit good golf shots. Your loft or your shaft on the club will not change but you can get better.
Find what inspires you. The pga tour, longdrivers or other good golfers can all help you find better golf shots. Watch what they do instead of listed to what they say. Listen mostly to your body and figure out what you need to do to produce the same results as the pros on TV.
Mike Malaska, Mike Austin, Mike Dunaway and Steve Pratt are some of my favorite golf instructors online. Find the tips that make your golf better. Decide what you want to hit. I teach a draw but many like a fade and nobody likes a hook or slice.
Your hips or your lag is not the key to golf. Your hands will decide the shot and you can do like Tiger Woods and trust your hands. Teach your hands to hit different shots. Hit big hooks and slices to understand what happens. Only straight is not gonna teach you anything.
Bryson Dechambeu and Kyle Birkshire can inspire you to hit it longer. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson can give you inspiration and motivation to test new things and new golf shots. Linn Grant, Viktor Hovland and Ludvig Aberg can show you the future of golf.
The Masters, Players Championship, The Players, The Open and US Open can make you love golf even more. See the best in the world solve all the problems we all need to master any golf course. Golf is a craft and you need fantasy, feel and skills to master it.
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I am also left handed in all sports involving a stick but right handed for most everything else. Not sure why, but it’s nice to be unique!
I am exactly the same as you Marcus. I'm naturally right handed but play golf left handed. I am left footed at football and left handed when I play cricket. However, I would hold a tennis racket in my right hand and throw a ball with my right hand.
I can just about hit a golfball right-handed but I have to hold the club in the left handed way! My daughter is naturally left handed but plays golf right handed.
I do believe that Phil Mickelson is naturally right handed and also Jordan Spieth is naturally left handed…..both, as you know, play golf the other way to their natural handedness.
I think there are more of us out there than you can imagine.
I'm glad you joined this debate. In my opinion, right-handers should play as left-handers and vice versa! I am left-handed and that was the only (!) reason why I play left-handed, because no one pointed out to me that maybe it would be better if I played right-handed. Years later, although it was too late to change, I came to the conclusion that I should play right-handed for several reasons. In any other sport, you grab the racket, e.g., tennis that I’ve played for 30+ years, with your dominant hand and then add the other hand below if you want to hit the ball two-handed. Your dominant side (in my case the left) will fight against the other side, hence the over-the-top swings. My dominant eye is the left one, so during my backswing I have to be careful not to lose eye-contact with the ball. I also agree with you that the dominant hand controls the club head better. It's too late for me to switch, but thanks to your instructions I understood a lot about the golf swing and you helped me to switch my mind to play golf with my dominant hand/side (pull vs push), especially for speed and power, and using my right hand for the club-head control. Fortunately, I am ambidextrous, I write with my right hand, they forced me to do so in primary school (!), so I do quite well. But I will emphasize once again, thanks to your instructions I understood a lot and my golf is now heading in the right direction, so thank you!
I’m naturally left handed but play right handed. Right side is definitely stronger, but left side is smarter. I putt left handed though, since developing the yips from the right side. I tried everything: claw grip, pencil grip, belly putter, long putter, left hand low, and finally putted with my eyes closed (which actually worked). You can’t cure the yips. Switching sides did, though. And I’m a better putter from the left side than I ever was from the right side. Who knew.😮
I suppose Marcus meant we should find our own swing. pushing pulling , throwing hitting, body swing or arm swing… even playing with "wrong" hand.
so long as it consistently produces the best ball delivery for us.
I’m also right handed and swing lefty. I just got better results hitting baseballs swinging lefty as a kid and naturally I stayed lefty when I tried golf.
I’ll go as far to say that lefties in swinging sports are actually the true righties. The whole right side of the body is far more active in a left swing.
I’m interested to try a right handed swing in golf but I feel I have way more power swinging lefty in baseball as a right handed person.
Happy I found your channel. I am right hand dominant but played all sports except tennis from the left. I had a few golf lessons. But those instructors were right hand and played from the right side. They didn’t help me much but that may be just the quality of the instructors. Enjoy your channel!
'I'm lefty and play right handed… cause that was the clubs in the garage [ my dads ] but when i got older i set out to buy and get lessons for left side…. pro watched me hit righty and said… why go to left handed clubs? you hit well and your strong side [ left is leading the swing ] I've stayed the same ever since…. however cant putt righty…. so now i use side saddle method so i can use both eyes to view the putt [ Sam Snead style ] … I have just had that ahh hahhh moment trying to use your swing method…. it finally clicked in on how it should feel….. Thank you…. Vince
I played hockey my whole life, left handed shot, but golf right handed. They said at the time that manufacturers did not make good left handed clubs. (I'm 69 yrs old) As a youth, my friends and I would go to the driving range and take the "shared" left handed clubs out of the barrel, and try to hit left handed. I did pretty well but I always had that thought that maybe I should have started playing left handed. Thanks for the video Marcus!!
Im also right handed in everything except hockey, but what I noticed is I grab a broom or sledgehammer with the right hand high on the handle and then work it left hand low. In hockey many times your holding the stick with one hand, especially for poke checks and naturally if you’re right handed it’s your strong hand. In hockey I started out playing left wing but moved to goalie, I hold the stick in my strong hand and catch left because in baseball I throw and bat righty and catch left, which automatically made me a lefty in hockey. But some reason I play golf right handed and can never relate golf to hockey, which makes me wonder if I should have played lefty.
The king of straightness, Moe Norman, was a leftie hitting on the right side.
Though he described his swing as pulling like a son of gun, and used the 10 finger grip.
I've practiced with the split (hockey) grip as you recommended, it's a good way to feel the release, and produces a lot of power. Though I found it really useful to do precise green side chips with slightly split hands actually.
I took up golf at age 35. I was a very good left handed tennis player then and since with right handed clubs, the swing feels like a tennis backhand with the left hand leading. Pulling with my left are, my right didn't do much, but drives went about 220 and my irons were on target, so good enough. I was a 13 handicap from my 30's to my 60's, then age started to get me. Then in my 70's I got a heart operation, pneumonia and then cancer with Chemo , lost 95 lbs of fat and muscle, not a good look. Then my Afib went permanent. So, after two years of no golf, I tried again, drives were going 110 yards. Went to Youtube and discovered your channel . I have to get the trailing hand, the right one, to start helping. If I tried to swing harder by just pulling the left, I sprayed all over. Now at 80 years old and getting that right hand to actually do something, I can hit 160 yard drives and getting better. That episode of Slow and Fast hand helped, thank you.
Really enjoy every video. If and when you visit Florida where do you go and do you give lessons?
Another Great video 👍
one thing, I was wondering which is your dominant eye….?
I am left handed and play from the right. My question is how is it better for me to push with my non dominant hand?
I tried hitting my lob wedge left handed and the ball went 2 inches into the ground. Just kidding 😂. Next time I’ll try left handed clubs.
Marcus- this video resonates. I am naturally right handed. When I was a young child, my left eye was weaker. I could not see a baseball as well from the right side. My smart father turned me around to the left side. I ended up having a nice high school baseball career hitting third and leading the team in all major stats. 😂Hockey and all swinging motions are left but I write and throw with my right hand.
Starting golf in my early thirties, it is not quite as easy as hitting a baseball. Even with a dozen or so lessons over the past three years with two different instructors.
Subscribed and checking out your videos. I like the way you explain things and also are a righty playing lefty just like me.
Shoot left in hockey and left eye dominant. I am right handed and started playing golf right handed. Think I will try give left a try. Thanks for the video.
This is a timely video for me. I started playing golf about 3 years ago at 45 years old, and it has been a massive struggle (I'm right handed). My right hand just insists on taking over in the swing, combined with my left/dumb hand just being unwilling to let a proper release happen. Every now and then I'll get into a mode where I can smash irons, or driver for a little while, but I always lose it. I hardly ever play anymore, and just spend my time on the range and in the simulator bay. It just isn't fun going to the course and being completely screwed up. Been thinking about buying a lefty club set for the past few weeks. When I take one of my clubs and just address the ball at home lefty, while the grip and whatnot feels totally strange after the zillions of shots I've tried to hit righty, when I get to the top, something in my brain starts to think I'd have a pretty good chance of smashing the ball if I practiced a little. It just sort of makes sense to me. I'll find a cheap lefty set and start messing around with it. The only reason I play righty is because I walked into a golf store knowing zero about the game, was asked if I was right handed, and bought a set of right handed clubs. Thanks for the inspiration, I've been watching you for a while now!