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  1. This is so long out of the date range for this topic I hope somebody [specifically strangegrey] is still on board and able to reply. Strangegrey, you nailed the problem. I am an Aussie [but don't hold that against me 🤣] who couldn't hit the side of an aircraft carrier with my right hand. Anything that is done one handed I use my left but everything that is two handed I do as a right hander [for instance if I pick up a tomahawk I do so with my left but an axe I pick up right handed. If I pick up a baseball bat I am right handed but if I pick up a tennis racquet I am left handed.] This is simply natural instinct for some reason and has not been taught. I can also only kick left footed. I can't even understand anything I try to write with my right hand. The only change to that is I hold a pistol left handed but also shoot a rifle as a lefty. Perhaps that is because my left eye might be more dominant? [never even thought of that one oddity until now] I have picked up a left handed club but know instinctively I could never use it. I Have a lot of trouble trying to get the ball in the air for [I think] several reasons. I tend to go on to my dominant leg too much in the forward swing, and at address I line up with the club in my left hand only which tends to have me standing too far forward and also reduces the pitch angle on the club [they are my theories anyway]. I can't afford coaching, can''t waste time starting again [at 80 years of age]. Almost on a weekly basis my distance is getting less and less. Average drive now wouldn't be much more than 180 yards and I had to go to a 13° Big Bertha to achieve any height. I have, except for 8 iron and above] gone over to 19°, 21°, and 25° hybrids to replace my 3 wood and 3, 5, 6, and 7 irons. Found this works far better for height, distance, accuracy, and consistency. [not that I am too flash at golf. mid to high 90's with the occasional flash of brilliance in high 80's on a fairly easy course] I still toy with the thought of "I wonder how I would go left handed" though. I realise the thread is [as I am now reminded] now almost 1300 day old but I don't want to start a new one and go through it all again, but rather to see if your experience since posting has taken any dramatic changes for the better or worse. How did you end up? Anything in what you learnt that would be of assistance. PeterG
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