Left Handed Golfers stand on the RIGHT Side of the BALL !
March 2009
Just been watching the Michael Hill 2009 New Zealand Open golf from Queenstown . (Arrowtown actually ) . Went over there last year for the WALG lefties and was blown away by the location . I stayed in Arrowtown , only 15 minutes max from Queenstown , a bit quieter . Bottom line is Im going back one day , maybe more with cameras than clubs . It truly is a stunning part of the world and well worth a trip .
PS . Loved Arrowtown Golf Club and its course , I suppose its the people and if you can break your handicap on it , email me , Ill buy you a few beers.
Link to my website NALG Northern Rivers page . HERE
Also an external link to the Northern Rivers District Golf Association website HERE
STOP PRESS
Just found a new website for Hacker Golf Magazine Australia and signed up . I read the bio on how they started and yep , you won me and my 4 iron is my favourite club but for different reasons than those listed . Good luck .
March 2009
Just been watching the Michael Hill 2009 New Zealand Open golf from Queenstown . (Arrowtown actually ) . Went over there last year for the WALG lefties and was blown away by the location . I stayed in Arrowtown , only 15 minutes max from Queenstown , a bit quieter . Bottom line is Im going back one day , maybe more with cameras than clubs . It truly is a stunning part of the world and well worth a trip .
PS . Loved Arrowtown Golf Club and its course , I suppose its the people and if you can break your handicap on it , email me , Ill buy you a few beers.
Link to my website NALG Northern Rivers page . HERE
Also an external link to the Northern Rivers District Golf Association website HERE
STOP PRESS
Just found a new website for Hacker Golf Magazine Australia and signed up . I read the bio on how they started and yep , you won me and my 4 iron is my favourite club but for different reasons than those listed . Good luck .
Swing Machine Golf , teaching principles by Paul Wilson based on a mechanical swing machine originally designed on Bryon Nelsons swing and used up until recently to test clubs .
MIZUNO UPDATE MARCh 2009. Beautiful ! and yes , sometimes Im full of crap , but the bottom line still is you CANT BUY a swing , can you ! Ive tried just like most of us !
Just purchased a set of Mizuno MP-60s . 3 to PW with regular R300 shafts and will update over the next month or so how they are going . ( Looked at Titleist 735s as well ).
To add to the MP-60 s picked up 3 MP-T wedges (chrome) from the US of A and will test them over the next few weeks . They feel very similar in weight ( heavy) and looks to the irons ( which is what I was after ) and so far feel great .
My gut feeling is a bit flatter and maybe 1/2 inch shorter , Hi MR Henry ........
I know we are all different but recon lessons are more valuable ( correct coach ) than ANY 500 buck whiz bang driver . The best NEW golf gear I have purchased are a 1/2000sec Canon Video and the CSwing program . A lot more product than I need but you quickly SEE where you are going wrong .(at the top /over the top ) . One day I might get it right , what do they say , " hit it with your butt not your hands " . Spine angles , blah blah . Lateral movement . ME
Joined Coraki Golf Club and play on Thursdays with the veterans (vets) and a great bunch of blokes to boot. You play with different guys every week and always a stroke event , a true reflection of ones ability , I love it and as the course goes clockwise so there is a lefties OB fence line around half the course , keep it in play as they say and can honestly say the best group of people to play with . Even the pollies ! Well budding mayors anyway. Just received the NSW Veterans Golfers Association2009 Events Program and if you wished you could play in a comp all year round somewhere in the state. You never know where you may end up do you ?
Also joined the Northern Rivers section of the Australian Left Handed Golfers Association NALG . These guys need to promote themselves more as it took heaps to find them ! Maybe a website ...
And if you wish to join , or just a lefty on holidays looking for a game e-mail me . Any excuse sounds good to me . Have played a lot of courses from the Mid North Coast up to the Queensland border and intend over the next few years to fill in the gaps . While some of the "A" courses need little promotion I'm more into or maybe remember a special hole somewhere , or maybe a course where someone comes up and says hello ! SOME DON'T !
Also on Golflink , I suppose we all are now , a great idea and takes the hassle out of maintaining a viable handicap . Well done to all those involved including the guys at the clubs that update the information.
HG UPDATE :
This just gets funnier or sad , on the Golflink site and found a guy , that I don't know living within 10 km of me flogging a set of lefties HG . Pushing it uphill to get $250 bucks for them . I have taken the head off a few clubs and use them for training and swing plane alignment aids !
Just found another guy that only got 160 for a 2nd hand set on the net !
HENRY GRIFFITHS or however you spell it !
Its a pity I wasn't more practical years ago when I paid a lot of money ( wearing a suit ) for a full set of VERY unsuitable Henry Griffitts graphite clubs in Sydney. Yes they where custom fitted and after many lessons including video , TOOOO LONG and WAAAAY TOOOOO UPRIGHT . Not the only reason I got jacked off and stopped playing golf for 15 years or so but in hindsight didn't help my swing at all . Stuffed it really . After spending time in front of a video camera I now realise it was impossible to use these clubs and maintain any spine angle and knee flex/set or whatever its called . I would have needed to drive the irons about 3 inches into the ground about a foot from my big toe . Having gorilla length arms doesnt help either.
FOOTNOTE : I wish I could kick their arse without the nightmare. Can you tell this subject gets me going and regardless of how often I update or change this page THIS LAST PARAGRAPH WILL ALWAYS STAY ...... Holty...
Just purchased a set of Mizuno MP-60s . 3 to PW with regular R300 shafts and will update over the next month or so how they are going . ( Looked at Titleist 735s as well ).
To add to the MP-60 s picked up 3 MP-T wedges (chrome) from the US of A and will test them over the next few weeks . They feel very similar in weight ( heavy) and looks to the irons ( which is what I was after ) and so far feel great .
My gut feeling is a bit flatter and maybe 1/2 inch shorter , Hi MR Henry ........
I know we are all different but recon lessons are more valuable ( correct coach ) than ANY 500 buck whiz bang driver . The best NEW golf gear I have purchased are a 1/2000sec Canon Video and the CSwing program . A lot more product than I need but you quickly SEE where you are going wrong .(at the top /over the top ) . One day I might get it right , what do they say , " hit it with your butt not your hands " . Spine angles , blah blah . Lateral movement . ME
Joined Coraki Golf Club and play on Thursdays with the veterans (vets) and a great bunch of blokes to boot. You play with different guys every week and always a stroke event , a true reflection of ones ability , I love it and as the course goes clockwise so there is a lefties OB fence line around half the course , keep it in play as they say and can honestly say the best group of people to play with . Even the pollies ! Well budding mayors anyway. Just received the NSW Veterans Golfers Association2009 Events Program and if you wished you could play in a comp all year round somewhere in the state. You never know where you may end up do you ?
Also joined the Northern Rivers section of the Australian Left Handed Golfers Association NALG . These guys need to promote themselves more as it took heaps to find them ! Maybe a website ...
And if you wish to join , or just a lefty on holidays looking for a game e-mail me . Any excuse sounds good to me . Have played a lot of courses from the Mid North Coast up to the Queensland border and intend over the next few years to fill in the gaps . While some of the "A" courses need little promotion I'm more into or maybe remember a special hole somewhere , or maybe a course where someone comes up and says hello ! SOME DON'T !
Also on Golflink , I suppose we all are now , a great idea and takes the hassle out of maintaining a viable handicap . Well done to all those involved including the guys at the clubs that update the information.
HG UPDATE :
This just gets funnier or sad , on the Golflink site and found a guy , that I don't know living within 10 km of me flogging a set of lefties HG . Pushing it uphill to get $250 bucks for them . I have taken the head off a few clubs and use them for training and swing plane alignment aids !
Just found another guy that only got 160 for a 2nd hand set on the net !
HENRY GRIFFITHS or however you spell it !
Its a pity I wasn't more practical years ago when I paid a lot of money ( wearing a suit ) for a full set of VERY unsuitable Henry Griffitts graphite clubs in Sydney. Yes they where custom fitted and after many lessons including video , TOOOO LONG and WAAAAY TOOOOO UPRIGHT . Not the only reason I got jacked off and stopped playing golf for 15 years or so but in hindsight didn't help my swing at all . Stuffed it really . After spending time in front of a video camera I now realise it was impossible to use these clubs and maintain any spine angle and knee flex/set or whatever its called . I would have needed to drive the irons about 3 inches into the ground about a foot from my big toe . Having gorilla length arms doesnt help either.
FOOTNOTE : I wish I could kick their arse without the nightmare. Can you tell this subject gets me going and regardless of how often I update or change this page THIS LAST PARAGRAPH WILL ALWAYS STAY ...... Holty...
HMMMMMM.....
Can a 57 year old left handed hacker change it and basically start again , or do I even want to ? Cause I do !
Ill keep you posted . I have the book (read it once) and the DVD set , ,,watch almost daily .
Have to admit , so far , so good , its taken a few months and some VERY horrible embarrassing rounds but when I get it right , which is now more often than not it just happens . My keyword is "hips" and the rest just follows ? NO ARMS , NO ARMS !!!! , No flippy wrists .
Can a 57 year old left handed hacker change it and basically start again , or do I even want to ? Cause I do !
Ill keep you posted . I have the book (read it once) and the DVD set , ,,watch almost daily .
Have to admit , so far , so good , its taken a few months and some VERY horrible embarrassing rounds but when I get it right , which is now more often than not it just happens . My keyword is "hips" and the rest just follows ? NO ARMS , NO ARMS !!!! , No flippy wrists .
It just happens !
Just purchased leftiesgolf.com.au
Something to "play with" and easier than golf,trust me!
Something to "play with" and easier than golf,trust me!