00:00Do you use one of these? It's a left-handed golf club. Now around five to seven percent of golfers
00:06are left-handed and they face a lot of problems. I'm one of those golfers and I find there's so
00:12many problems left-handers face that right-handers don't. I'm going to give you eight examples today
00:16here at the beautiful Peterborough Milton Golf Club about the eight problems that only left-handers
00:21face. Right so the first and the biggest problem for left-handers is getting hold of this and it's
00:26golf equipment. All left-handers will know that as much as pro shops and retailers try their hardest
00:31there just isn't that much stock equipment for left-handers. Your right-handed mate can walk into
00:35a shop and pick up pretty much whatever they want whereas us lefties have to sit and wait and order
00:40it. It's really quite frustrating and as much as you can get demo clubs tried out and you can get your
00:45custom fitting done you can't pick it up stock and it goes the same for gloves as well. You'll see in
00:50a pro shop loads of gloves for right-handers all the left-handed gloves stocked up but when it comes
00:55are right-handed gloves you'll find a couple in some scrappy old packets they'll be size XL to double
01:00XL and nothing in between so equipment gloves anything for us lefties it's a bit awkward it's
01:06really hard to get hold of. The next problem only left-handers face is that they can't get any hand-me-down
01:12clubs from their often right-handed parents or grandparents. Now I've got my dad's old JPX 900
01:18irons here that he's just finished with he's just upgraded maybe I'd like to have a go with them as his
01:22son maybe he'd give them to me obviously because I'm a lefty I can't use them it's very frustrating
01:27and a lot of beginner left-handed golfers will understand that as well that perhaps they want
01:31to try their first set and they don't want to invest and a parent or grandparent plays
01:35they're often right-handed the clubs often don't work and it's really really frustrating for left-handed
01:40golfers. One of the next problems only left-handers face is people forgetting you're left-handed
01:45especially at the start of the round and especially on the first tee box where they'll stand right behind
01:49where you want to swing. Now people will ultimately learn throughout the round that you're left-handed
01:53and start standing in the right position but that can take a while so right-handers remember we're
01:58left-handed and remember where to stand. Right my playing partner just said I was very fortunate to
02:05be on this side of the tree and this is another problem that left-handers face is right-handed
02:09playing partners forgetting they're left-handed and saying oh you're fine you've got a great shot here
02:14obviously for a right-hander they do but for me as a lefty another lefty's out there what am i supposed
02:20to do with this i'm in a terrible position and doubly i'm wound up because he just said i was very
02:25fortunate to be here so see what i can do with this not bad in the end so another problem only left-handed
02:37golfers face is overhanging trees on a tee now i'm on the 15th hole here there's a great example and as a
02:43left-hander who likes to fade the ball i come nice and left on the tee and i'll often find there's
02:47little branches and bits of tree overhanging my sight line now of course some right-handers might
02:52find this as well on certain tee boxes but i think it happens to lefties a lot more people who are
02:57right-handed won't see that and so they won't get trimmed away and give me some more space now
03:02that's in my sight line how would i get on hitting it let's have a little go
03:14well i've hit a perfect draw by accident but they were certainly in my eye line and it's certainly
03:19very annoying for left-handers so another problem for us lefties is our right-handed playing partners
03:25again forgetting we're left-handed and offering us their shiny new driver to have a hit now this annoys me
03:30so much because i'd love to try the driver it looks lovely they've been hitting it really well
03:34they'll hand it over to me have a go with that and i can't and it's very frustrating it's another
03:38thing that right-handers do to lefties is they forget so another problem for lefties not being
03:43able to try out your mate shiny new equipment so whilst this map might be an exception to the rule
03:48because it's been very well looked after another problem that left-handed golfers face is having to
03:52play their ball out of right-handers footsteps especially on winter mats on a little par three like
03:57this when i want to play with the ball off the deck i've got to rummage around to try and find a half
04:02decent lie on this mat on the other hand right handers i've got a beautiful clean lie yet another
04:08problem for lefties now another annoying thing for left-handers is their playing partners comparing
04:14their short game to the great phil mickelson because he's left-handed and that unfortunately
04:18isn't the reality for most left-handers i don't compare right-handers drives to every single bryson
04:23dechambeau bomb do i so i don't think it's fair to compare left-handed short games to phil mickelson
04:28so should i give you a bit of an idea of what our short games are really like
04:31bunker in front of me about six feet of green to work with let's see how we actually get on us lefties
04:44turns out i'm actually quite good so those are the eight most annoying things that left-handers face
04:49out on the golf course a lot of them were about right-handed golfers forgetting that we're left
04:54handers and even my cameraman howard kept setting up on the wrong side of me throughout this whole
04:57shoot so what do you think at home am i just moaning too much or have i come up with some really
05:02good ideas there and are you left-handers relating at home let me know down in the comments below
05:07but for now from peterborough milton golf club see you next time
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