Right handed Leftie - another ball game?

[betterlead]

I am a right handed leftie. One could say, I see myself as a backhand golf player.
Of course I know one of the greatest players in the world is of the "same konfiguration". PM, naturally.

I have bought NSA2, NHA2, Co of a Former Flipper and The Soft Draw Pattern. Have also seen tons of your videos on YT. All instructions and drills are really good, but sometimes I wonder if many of the drills and instructions are applicable on a right handed leftie player.
I always throw, say a tennis ball with my right hand and and it flies almost 50-60% longer than if I try to throw it with my left hand. I honestly feel very weak in my whole left side. Watching all the instructions involving throwing actions, firing the right side almost makes me sad because I can't produce much power and force this way.
Isn't golf for right handed lefties (and the opposite of course) a totally different ball game? Do I need other instructions?
Help?

 

[imac]

I play "back handed", too, and my lead hand dominates the swing (not a good thing). What has helped me is practicing "throwing" w/ my trail arm. Brian has shown the throw in a few of his videos. Most effective for me is trail arm practice swings w/ an iron. Also, check out Michael Lavery's stuff on using both sides. He has a book and a bunch of stuff on YouTube. Ritchie3Jack has written about him on his blog.

 

[savydan]

You can produce power from your trail arm. Don't worry dude. You probably have to make your lead arm feel like a dangling piece of rope before you can feel your trail hand/arm smash the living crap out of the ball.

 

[spmurph]

I too am a right-handed lefty. I always wondered if I needed to make compensations in my swing. Then I found some TGM instruction and believed I was a "swinger" so it didn't matter as much. Then I found this site and realized, optimally, I need more power from my left side. It's definitely something I need to work on. I have a lot of trouble with Brian's ball bouncing down the line drill.

 

[drulf]

Upper handed Frisbee throw?

There was a bit of discussion recently on the Swedish National Golf Forum on this - some meant that you´re almost always too weak in your lower hand/side to keep the club on plane if you´re upper hand dominant. This would lead to a tendency too be more underplane. I never understood this- why can´t you keep it on plane with the stronger upper hand? Isn´t the upper handed frisbee throw a good golfing analogy? It certainly gives me a more active pivot and a proper shorter slack-less swing. I just have to think about holding the frisbee 90 degrees to the plane to avoid my own too open clubface...

 

[savydan]

Whatever works. I don't really buy into the too weak idea.

 

[lookingtolearn]

I am a right handed leftie. One could say, I see myself as a backhand golf player.
Of course I know one of the greatest players in the world is of the "same konfiguration". PM, naturally.

I have bought NSA2, NHA2, Co of a Former Flipper and The Soft Draw Pattern. Have also seen tons of your videos on YT. All instructions and drills are really good, but sometimes I wonder if many of the drills and instructions are applicable on a right handed leftie player.
I always throw, say a tennis ball with my right hand and and it flies almost 50-60% longer than if I try to throw it with my left hand. I honestly feel very weak in my whole left side. Watching all the instructions involving throwing actions, firing the right side almost makes me sad because I can't produce much power and force this way.
Isn't golf for right handed lefties (and the opposite of course) a totally different ball game? Do I need other instructions?
Help?

You need to train your left arm to work the same way that the right arm works for a righty.

Try Brian's drill where you set up to the backside of a divot with only your left hand on the club. Make a left-arm-only swing and try and hit the front side of the divot. Practice until you can do it. Then hit balls that way.

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

im a naturally lefty who plays golf righty. i do everything lefty except play golf and bat righty. i swing 110-112mph when im going good. hit it decent in baseball too. but did hit it further when i switched hit (even though it felt awful) and also had one of the fastest slapshots in the hockey league left handed as a 150lb runt. could i be swinging faster lefty? probably but it just doesnt feel right.

i learned almost everything i know from brian. doesnt seem to have hurt me much

 

[betterlead]

im a naturally lefty who plays golf righty. i do everything lefty except play golf and bat righty. i swing 110-112mph when im going good. hit it decent in baseball too. but did hit it further when i switched hit (even though it felt awful) and also had one of the fastest slapshots in the hockey league left handed as a 150lb runt. could i be swinging faster lefty? probably but it just doesnt feel right.

i learned almost everything i know from brian. doesnt seem to have hurt me much

And certainly not me

Brian is a splendid communicator - relaxed and "normal".
I've searched the forum a bit and saw a video on YT about the "flying elbow" and it sort of caught my attention when Brian mentioned it could be a good position for those who pull the club with the leading hand/arm. Well that's, I suspect, my way of swinging the golf club. Pulling with my right arm. I tested this a couple of times yesterday and it felt very sensible. My swing plane became more vertical and I felt like I could use more power out of my pulling right arm. Like I wasn't getting short of the trailing arm. (Mentioned somewhere in TGM book?) I'll give it more chances next time on the range.

I feel I have found the right kind of instructions here. After studying the TGM book, visiting Lynn Blakes and Chuck Evans sites I became very static in my swing. (Too many technical thoughts also destroyed my game.)

In the last few days, I have started learning to step in to my trailing leg on the back swing, moving my trailing shoulder down towards the ball in the downswing and forming a > -look of my body in impact position. This is not as hard to do as I thought and I finally was able yesterday to hit some longer irons without digging to China 5 inches behind and inside of the ball.

Tailbone closer to the target at impact is IT! Isn't it?

And I'm telling you, my back hurt less executing shots this way - with the step into the trailing leg and then forming the > . (Is that sign understandable..?) Well, blah, blah.

I also discovered that tumbling is a good thing. Not only for getting rid of nasty flat of-plane-swing-plane - it's a perfect move to use when you have an obstacle in the way of your backswing. Or when hitting out of deep ruff.

Correct me if my thoughts are wrong. And sorry for so much of topic...

Cheers

 

[nwb]

Betterlead - i too am a right handed Leftie golfer. Have forever struggled getting on plane on the backswing.

Can you explain the > at impact please?

cheers

NWB

 

[betterlead]

Something like this - exaggerated though...
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Anyway: Tailbone closer to target than at address. Sort of...