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If you are right handed in swinging the club but naturally left handed in writing, throwing, etc. and vice versa for left handed swingers, how hard is it for you to hit the driver vs the 3-wood off the tee? 

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Huh?

Are you asking about the 3W vs. the Driver, and only for people who swing opposite the way they normally do most things?

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29 minutes ago, golfdu said:

If you are right handed in swinging the club but naturally left handed in writing, throwing, etc. and vice versa for left handed swingers, how hard is it for you to hit the driver vs the 3-wood off the tee? 

I play golf, bowl, throw, bat left handed. I write, throw frisbee, play tennis right handed. 3W vs Driver? I have no idea what you're asking.

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My closest golf buddy is righty in all things but golf.  He plays off a 6 hcp and has no real problems with either club.

I don’t understand why the question either...

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Driver: Titleist 910 D-3;  9.5* Diamana Kai'li
3-Wood: Titleist 910F;  15* Diamana Kai'li
Hybrids: Titleist 910H 19* and 21* Diamana Kai'li
Irons: Titleist 695cb 5-Pw

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I can think of a guy who is right handed in all things except golf and is excellent with the driver;  hits it a long way, sometimes has to send out a search party for it, but his driver helps him a lot more than it hurts him. 

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This question brings to mind a word problem from a Tom Robbins novel.

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12 hours ago, Vinsk said:

I play golf, bowl, throw, bat left handed. I write, throw frisbee, play tennis right handed. 3W vs Driver? I have no idea what you're asking.

Wow! Which hand do you perform surgery with? Asking for a friend.😉

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1 minute ago, boogielicious said:

Wow! Which hand do you perform surgery with? Asking for a friend.😉

Lol....finite tasks right...blunt tasks left.

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Hey have you ever done the dominant eye test, if not just put one finger up in the air and align it with something a couple of metres away with both eyes open, then close your left eye and then open your left eye and close your right eye, if the finger moves more away from the thing you lined up with when only your left eye is open then you are naturally right handed and if it moves away more when only your right eye is open you are naturally left handed. I'd say if you learned to play golf with the wrong handedness especially if you are strongly one handed like me and the finger moves a long way for one eye and nothing for the dominant one then you may have a problem with playing well in general IMHO.

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1 hour ago, PerfectStriking said:

Hey have you ever done the dominant eye test, if not just put one finger up in the air and align it with something a couple of metres away with both eyes open, then close your left eye and then open your left eye and close your right eye, if the finger moves more away from the thing you lined up with when only your left eye is open then you are naturally right handed and if it moves away more when only your right eye is open you are naturally left handed. I'd say if you learned to play golf with the wrong handedness especially if you are strongly one handed like me and the finger moves a long way for one eye and nothing for the dominant one then you may have a problem with playing well in general IMHO.

Not necessarily.

Almost 1/3 of people are cross dominant.  Meaning that while they are right-handed, they are left eye dominant, or vice versa.

 

 

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Driver: Titleist 910 D-3;  9.5* Diamana Kai'li
3-Wood: Titleist 910F;  15* Diamana Kai'li
Hybrids: Titleist 910H 19* and 21* Diamana Kai'li
Irons: Titleist 695cb 5-Pw

Wedges: Scratch 51-11 TNC grind, Vokey SM-5's;  56-14 F grind and 60-11 K grind
Putter: Scotty Cameron Kombi S
Ball: ProV1

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