Five Hot Tips for Left-Handed Golfers

If you are planning a golf vacation, and also belong to the 11 percent of people that are left-handed, you may be feeling a little apprehensive! Perhaps your spouse is keen, even though your game isn’t quite what it could be. Perhaps you're hoping that this golf trip will be the jump start that your game needs. Today we give you five hot tips for left handed golfers to pay attention to before you go on your next golf vacation.

1. Get the right clubs.

This is imperative! It sounds odd, but like left-handed guitarists, left-handed golfers often learn to play on right-handed equipment. Guitars and golf clubs are both quite expensive, and the right handed version is more readily accessible and cheaper. However, if you're going on a golf vacation, it is the perfect time to make the switch to proper, left-handed clubs.

2. The Simple Golf Swing by David Nevogt

Grab a copy of this book -- it is a great start and much less expensive than professional instruction (though don’t doubt that all that money is worth it!). He gives his readers a guarantee that they will reduce their score by at least seven strokes, or he'll refund the purchase price of the book. There is a special version of the manual for left handed golfers … despite what many righties think, there is more to learning left-handed than just reversing techniques.

3. Watch some DVDs

Check out some of the following famous golfers for tips on swing and follow through specifically for left handers before your next golf trip:

• Nick O'Hern, Australian
• Mike Weir, Canadian
• Bob Charles, New Zealand
• Phil Mickelson, US
• Kevin Wentworth, US
• Russ Cochran, US

4. Get left-handed golf instruction

Don’t bother with right-handed instructors, unless they have some sort of guarantee or extensive experience teaching left-handers. You could look into doing this in conjunction with taking your golf vacation -- no better excuse to fully focus on your game than having a holiday!

5. Pay most attention to your alignment

The place where most left-handed golfers go wrong is the body alignment. This is very difficult for right handed people to teach to lefties -- it just doesn’t come naturally! Learn the correct body alignment technique, and make perfecting it the focus of your next golf trip.