"What do you mean that can't be done, this is the only way I could play," was my response.
"Well, it's wrong," said the instructor, "you can't play golf lefthanded."
"What do you mean, I can't play lefthanded?" I asked. "Why can't I play lefthanded?"
"It just can't be done," the instructor replied, "because golf courses are not built for lefthanded players."
With that remark I turned the club upside down (I made a lefthanded club out of a righthanded one), I raised the club with my left side and I smacked the ball against the canvas with a resounding bang. I placed the club back in the rack and we left without saying a word.
Incidentally, this trick of making a lefthanded club out of a righthanded one is very useful should you get up against a tree or a fence from where you must play left-handed. Curiously, each iron as it is turned upside down provides exactly the same angle of loft as it does in its righthanded position.
There are many stories of players who started playing golf lefthanded and improved their game after they changed and played righthanded. This is understandable. In fact, in righthanded golf a good strong active lefthand and arm are most necessary-and in lefthanded golf a good strong right arm and right hand are most helpful, but in each case both hands must be used. There is, in other words, an ambidexterity that must be developed in both instances, in righthanded or in lefthanded golf.
A most remarkable performer in this respect is my long-time friend, Johnny Bulla, of Phoenix, Arizona. Bulla started as a lefthanded player but was persuaded that golf should be played righthanded, so he switched sides.
And he played it well. Competing in the Los Angeles Open, Bulla once registered an unbelievable score of 29, seven under par for the first 9 holes on the difficult Riviera Golf Course. He started this round with 5 straight threes, and finished the 9 holes with 7 threes showing on his card. continue lefthanded golf...
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