Left Handed Clubs

[iacas]

Unfortunately, it's probably less than 0.6% of the golfing public. Guessing only 0.1%, but that's still 55,000 of us out of the 55 million golfer market? Plus, I doubt any Mizuno golf club is made in big volumes anyway. . .

Maybe one of us could injure Luke Donald in such a way that he can only hit left handed?

Your 55 million includes golfers who play once a year.

Also, you probably need to sell 10,000 sets to even approach profitability of a bunch of molds. How many of those 55,000 are buying a set of lefty blades once a year?

[Lihu]

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Originally Posted by Lihu

Unfortunately, it's probably less than 0.6% of the golfing public. Guessing only 0.1%, but that's still 55,000 of us out of the 55 million golfer market? Plus, I doubt any Mizuno golf club is made in big volumes anyway. . .

Maybe one of us could injure Luke Donald in such a way that he can only hit left handed?

Your 55 million includes golfers who play once a year.

Also, you probably need to sell 10,000 sets to even approach profitability of a bunch of molds. How many of those 55,000 are buying a set of lefty blades once a year?

That was roughly my estimate based upon $999/set. Maybe 5,000 of us might buy one per year? That implies that Mizuno could possibly release a new MB for lefties every 2-5 years? We're almost due. . .

[iacas]

That was roughly my estimate based upon $999/set. Maybe 5,000 of us might buy one per year? That implies that Mizuno could possibly release a new MB for lefties every 2-5 years? We're almost due. . .

Mizuno doesn't get the $999 per set, and it sure as heck isn't all profit, of course. Plus, others make lefty clubs too, so you can't assume they'd all buy Mizuno.

I'm pretty sure the golf world and the club makers are not leaving piles of money sitting around.

[Lihu]

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Originally Posted by Lihu

That was roughly my estimate based upon $999/set. Maybe 5,000 of us might buy one per year? That implies that Mizuno could possibly release a new MB for lefties every 2-5 years? We're almost due. . .

Mizuno doesn't get the $999 per set, and it sure as heck isn't all profit, of course. Plus, others make lefty clubs too, so you can't assume they'd all buy Mizuno.

I'm pretty sure the golf world and the club makers are not leaving piles of money sitting around.

True, and I'm seriously looking at many other clubs for my first "real" set.

[Hatchman]

Question, how many of us lefties would buy the $999 clubs and would that separate the numbers also?

[Lihu]

Question, how many of us lefties would buy the $999 clubs and would that separate the numbers also?

I was kind of hoping that we already filtered out those that wouldn't with the 1% of the 6%?

[Hatchman]

I was kind of hoping that we already filtered out those that wouldn't with the 1% of the 6%?

Yes you did, sorry. I will be looking probably next year. With all the tweaks I made to my stock set, wonder if custom build might be the way to go from get go.

[Lihu]

[quote name="Lihu" url="/t/83435/left-handed-clubs/18#post_1175252"] I was kind of hoping that we already filtered out those that wouldn't with the 1% of the 6%?

Yes you did, sorry. I will be looking probably next year. With all the tweaks I made to my stock set, wonder if custom build might be the way to go from get go.[/quote] I'm looking now, but might not find one until next year. I also have custom and unintended tweaks on my clubs.

[newtogolf]

They make up about 6%, based on the people I've talked to, and that is for all of North America including Canada which skews it higher.

Many left-handed people will play golf right-handed.

I've seen numbers from 4% - 10% so 6% is probably more accurate than 10%.   If not for Phil and Bubba we might have even less options for our golf clubs.