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Not being left handed, I haven't paid much attention to this thread, but my interest is piqued in a different way. With such low percentages of players being left handed in the first place, you mentioned the increased cost of tooling up to make left handed irons. I would guess it's no less expensive to tool up for right handed irons, only that the cost is spread much more thinly across future sales, achieving an economy of scale. (Jeez, I'm a college educated economist and I'm actually using my education???)
My curiosity leads me to wonder, just for the hell of it, what are typical tooling costs when Mizuno makes a new model? How much more for the grain flow forging process than a casting process?
I've just always been fascinated in seeing how things are made and watching the videos online that show how it's done. I don't think I've ever heard the cost of it all mentioned. Inquiring minds want to know... So do nosy people like me...
My curiosity leads me to wonder, just for the hell of it, what are typical tooling costs when Mizuno makes a new model? How much more for the grain flow forging process than a casting process?
I've just always been fascinated in seeing how things are made and watching the videos online that show how it's done. I don't think I've ever heard the cost of it all mentioned. Inquiring minds want to know... So do nosy people like me...
Will be interesting to see what happens us lefties with the new irons due in 2024. There's leaked proto photos out already. I would have loved to have been fitted for the 225s when they came out but not available left handed so I'm hoping the next incarnation is released in leftie. Fingers crossed
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Haven't you seen the post below a few days ago about the 2024 irons? from LOS? - Think I spotted 2x models in LH?
New Irons | Mizuno Golf Forum (mizunoforum.com)
New Irons | Mizuno Golf Forum (mizunoforum.com)
Hi Steve ... Nice to see a post from you pal? - I trust you are keeping well? - I wasn't surprised that Harmon won as the weather conditions made it a bit of a putting competition? - He was super steady from tee to green & on the odd occasion he made a mistake, his putter & short game got him out of it - His mindset seems to have been spot on as well ...
What I did struggle with was his putter? - I dare say sales of it have gone through the roof, but I couldn't ever play with what looks like a DVD player on a stick!
I do wonder however, if there might be some sense in trying to putt left handed? - Through the years, on the Tours & in my personal experience, I have never seen, or played with a left handed golfer who wasn't an outstanding putter? - I think a trip to my local AG to do some testing may be on the cards?
What I did struggle with was his putter? - I dare say sales of it have gone through the roof, but I couldn't ever play with what looks like a DVD player on a stick!
I do wonder however, if there might be some sense in trying to putt left handed? - Through the years, on the Tours & in my personal experience, I have never seen, or played with a left handed golfer who wasn't an outstanding putter? - I think a trip to my local AG to do some testing may be on the cards?
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I have a cousin who is totally right handed, but was given a set of clubs by a left handed uncle, so he learned to play left handed. He carries around an 8 handicap at Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky. If you saw him try to do anything else left handed, he's totally uncoordinated, can't throw a ball, can't shoot a basketball... But he has a classic left handed golf swing. Go figure...
Hi Dennis ... On a similar vein, I am left handed in terms of virtually everything I do apart from golf! - I write, throw, punch etc with my left hand - I was always led to believe that in terms of the golf swing, it was good to play right-handed when your strong side is the left one? - I started playing golf as a righty purely due to the fact that I copied my dad?
Going back to the putting ... You see so many of the good putters on Tour who putt right-handed, putt with their left had low i.e. below their right hand on the grip? - When I try to do this it feels very awkward & I really can't putt at all with my hands in that position? - If I were to start putting left-handed, my hands would already be in the left-handed equivalent of the left hand low (i.e. right hand low?) - I could of course be talking bollards? (not unusual, as Tom Jones would say!)
Going back to the putting ... You see so many of the good putters on Tour who putt right-handed, putt with their left had low i.e. below their right hand on the grip? - When I try to do this it feels very awkward & I really can't putt at all with my hands in that position? - If I were to start putting left-handed, my hands would already be in the left-handed equivalent of the left hand low (i.e. right hand low?) - I could of course be talking bollards? (not unusual, as Tom Jones would say!)
Hi Paul
Yes I am ok thanks.
Still have the TP9's you sold me, I added the PW, SW, 1 and 2 so I have the full lot now.
They are a thing of beauty but nothing more than pretty ornaments on a rack on the wall of my mancave, along with my restored MP14's, MP33s, MP32's, MP37s and Zoid Pro 2s.
I doubt any of them will see grass again in my hands. Happy with my 900 HMs with a couple of 825 hybrids and fairway. Just picked up a mint condition STX 220 driver with a HZRDUS Smoke Reg plus, 5.5 for £150 which I am pleased with.
No longer but so much more forgiving. Still looking for an 825 5 hybrid, they seem to be pretty rare now.
Anyway take care Paul, hope your back is not giving you too much gyp..
Cheers 🙂👍
Smitty
Yes I am ok thanks.
Still have the TP9's you sold me, I added the PW, SW, 1 and 2 so I have the full lot now.
They are a thing of beauty but nothing more than pretty ornaments on a rack on the wall of my mancave, along with my restored MP14's, MP33s, MP32's, MP37s and Zoid Pro 2s.
I doubt any of them will see grass again in my hands. Happy with my 900 HMs with a couple of 825 hybrids and fairway. Just picked up a mint condition STX 220 driver with a HZRDUS Smoke Reg plus, 5.5 for £150 which I am pleased with.
No longer but so much more forgiving. Still looking for an 825 5 hybrid, they seem to be pretty rare now.
Anyway take care Paul, hope your back is not giving you too much gyp..
Cheers 🙂👍
Smitty
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A few years ago, after a 16 month layoff from golf following surgery, I figured it would be a good time to try left hand low. I spent the better part of a month trying to putt left hand low, but even having not played for so long, I never got used to the feel of it. I didn't feel like I putted worse, just pretty much the same, so I didn't stick with it full time.
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That's the worst thing you could tell me. Depending on my brain for anything golf related is like trying to make a fish ride a bicycle.
(edit) I wonder if anyone using a long putter with a split handed grip would putt left hand low, pulling the putter through instead of pushing it with the right hand?
(edit) I wonder if anyone using a long putter with a split handed grip would putt left hand low, pulling the putter through instead of pushing it with the right hand?
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