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
00:45your
00:45custom fitting done you can't pick it up stock and it goes the same for gloves as well. You'll see
00:50in
00:50a pro shop loads of gloves for right-handers all the left-handed gloves stocked up but when it comes
00:55to 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
01:12-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
01:22his son maybe he'd give them to me. Obviously because I'm a lefty I can't use them it's very
01:26frustrating and a lot of beginner left-handed golfers will understand that as well that perhaps
01:30they want to 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 and other lefties out there what am
02:19I
02:19supposed to do with this I'm in a terrible position and doubly I'm wound up because he just said I
02:25was
02:25very fortunate to be here so see what I can do with this. Not bad in the end. So another
02:36problem only
02:37left-handed golfers face is overhanging trees on a tee. Now I'm on the 15th hole here there's a great
02:42example
02:42and as a left-hander likes to fade the ball I come nice and left on the tee and I'll
02:46often find
02:47there's little branches and bits of tree overhanging my sight line. Now of course some right-handers
02:52might find this as well on certain tee boxes but I think it happens to lefties a lot more. People
02:57are right-handed won't see that and so they won't get trimmed away and give me some more space. Now
03:01that'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 and it's
03:38another
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
04:02find a half
04:02decent lie on this map on the other hand right-handers I've got a beautiful clean lie yet another problem
04:08for 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? Bunker in
04:32front of me
04:32about 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 out
04:49on the golf course a lot of them were about right-handed golfers forgetting that we're left-handers
04:54and even my cameraman Howard kept setting up on the wrong side of me throughout this whole shoot
04:57so what do you think at home am I just moaning too much or have I come up with some
05:01really good
05:02ideas there and are you left-handers relating at home let me know down in the comments below
05:06but for now from Peterborough Milton Golf Club see you next time
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