Fitting a Golf Club for Left-Handed Golfers

Series Summary

Golf is a game in which players use clubs with various degrees of loft to hit a small ball into a hole. It is thought to have originated in the Netherlands but during the 15th century Scotland opened the world's first golf course called St. Andrews and popularized the game to what it has become today. At that time players did not play 18 holes. They would play a total of 22 holes per round instead. In 1764 they decided that a few of the holes were too short so they combined them and the total per round became the 18 we play today. So many games with using sticks have been around for centuries but golf, as we know it today, is thought widely to have originated in Scotland.

Most golfers today ore right handed so it is difficult to find information that caters to the “lefty.” This free video clip series is full of tips and information that every left handed golfer should know and take to heart. It covers everything from choosing what clubs to buy to putting on the 18th green and everything in between. Golf is not an easy game but with these methods you might just be able to shave off a few strokes.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I am Jason Wyatt head golf professional here at Sunningdale Golf and Country Club and on behalf of ExpertVillage.com, I am here to show you today why lefties should be fit. One of the major components in today’s technology with regards to clubs is club fitting, so what you look at is this an iron that we have out of our fitting card, one of the major things that we work on is length of the shaft, to make sure if you are 6 footer you need a different length shaft compared to a person like me who is 5’6” and 5’7”, after a light tape on the bottom, try and hit a few shots, and we have what is called color codes, and we can actually bend these irons, so once again if you are hitting so the toe of the golf club was opening up and hitting it to the left, we would then again have to make your golf club more upright. If you are hitting it off the heel and the ball is going to the right, we would have to flatten the golf club, again by flatting we move it this way to make sure that the club is flat on the bottom of the ground. After that we work on shaft flex whether you need a stiff or regular shaft and last but not least is the grip size and probably one of the more important things in the golf game, if you are hitting it left or right, I can pretty much cure by just changing the grip size of the golf club. So make sure next time you are looking around and looking at a new set of irons, please talk about club fitting."