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Does Anyone Here Golf Right Handed and Bat Left Handed?


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i shoot pool left handed, shoot a rifle left handed, but i think thats because my left eye is the dominant one, has anyone ever heard of that? i golf right handed but i think i should putt lefty, i suck at putting

Same with me. I am a lefty for eating, writing, shooting pool, and right handed for golf and most other sports. I am also left eye dominate.

However being left eye dominant and right handed golfer is actually an advantage or so I have read. Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are both left eye dominant. I dont think it has helped me though..
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Being able to throw right and left handed skillfully is quite a feat, especially for competitive baseball. Did you start throwing both ways while you were fairly young?

Yeah, I threw my arm out (right) as a kid, started throwing lefty and then it became a thing with throwing with both arms.

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Throw: left (I have throw lefty in softball before when I had a torn ACL in my right arm.  I was the catcher and would get cursed out by the pitcher when the ball did not reach him, but I got better))

Bat: left

Drive: left

Bowl: either

Tennis: I haven't really tried, but I may use both hands (switch the racquet as needed)

Skip rocks on the water: left and right

Horsehoes: left

My grandfather was a highly-successful surgeon.  He was also an avid hunter.  He injured his right hand with one of his guns.  He ended up doing all of his surgeries with his left hand. 


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Play pool left handed.

Rich C.

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  • 2 months later...
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Yes! I was just watching a football game and thought to myself as I often do that I bat Lefty and golf righty. I'm 58 and I have all my life. Although I haven't batted for real and probably 40 years except an occasional softball game. But I think I always golfed righty because my dad was a golfer and he was right-handed and he thought that I should just golf that way. But it's funny that every once in a while I practice a bat swing and a golf swing and I'm always interested in why this was the case


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