Around 7 or 8 years ago I was really struggling with my game. And I mean REALLY. Could barely break 90. I requested the club that I was a member of to let me try to get a RH handicap, as I was heavily contemplating switching.
In Aus, you provide three cards to your club and they average these out to get your handicap. My three cards were one in the low 90's, one in the high 80's and one in the mid 80's. So I was given a RH cap of 16.
Unfortunately, doing these cards took time and while doing these I also practiced LH to get my game back on track, and did manage to fix it. I only ever played one RH game and shot 87-16-71.
As an aside I do hit the ball slightly longer RH but the accuracy suffers and I don't have much touch / short game either. I'm sure they're things that could easily be worked on but once I got my game back lefty it just wasn't worth the effort.
I went on a golfing trip with a bunch of mates late last year and one of the blokes was bragging about how long he hits it. So I grabbed his driver, had one practice swing, and piped a beautiful 3 yard draw down the fairway. He had to absolutely nut his to beat me by 3 steps. The hole is 373m, slightly downhill and I had 104m in.
Here is the hole: (the blue tees which we hit off are another 30-40m back from these.
And here's where we were:
In Aus, you provide three cards to your club and they average these out to get your handicap. My three cards were one in the low 90's, one in the high 80's and one in the mid 80's. So I was given a RH cap of 16.
Unfortunately, doing these cards took time and while doing these I also practiced LH to get my game back on track, and did manage to fix it. I only ever played one RH game and shot 87-16-71.
As an aside I do hit the ball slightly longer RH but the accuracy suffers and I don't have much touch / short game either. I'm sure they're things that could easily be worked on but once I got my game back lefty it just wasn't worth the effort.
I went on a golfing trip with a bunch of mates late last year and one of the blokes was bragging about how long he hits it. So I grabbed his driver, had one practice swing, and piped a beautiful 3 yard draw down the fairway. He had to absolutely nut his to beat me by 3 steps. The hole is 373m, slightly downhill and I had 104m in.
Here is the hole: (the blue tees which we hit off are another 30-40m back from these.
And here's where we were: