He’s like Phil—right handed but swinging lefty. Happy for him, seems like a nice guy. I’m not from Savannah, but grew up not far away, so almost feels like a hometown win.As a fellow southpaw, I felt like I helped Harman win that Claret jug.
I’m right handed and played a little baseball, a little golf and a lot of tennis growing up, all righty. I didn’t play a lot of golf as a kid, just an occasional round with my dad or a friend, but my dad was a hacker at best. I got more serious in college about the game after taking a one credit college golf elective class. After college, as a young adult, I began taking golf lessons for the first time in my life. I didn’t fully understand the science behind swinging lefty, but I had an instructor who did his best to convince me to scrap my swing and begin swinging lefty due to some bad habits that had been established—between my tendency to incorporate a tennis swing and my hacker dad’s instructions. Anyway, long story short, I ended up deciding to stick with righty because I didn’t want to spend money on all new clubs and new lessons to basically start at scratch.
You shot an 81, but you didn’t mention that was on a par 3 course.
J/K. That’s a great score. I’ve never broken into the 80s, but I used to be a pretty consistent low 90s guy on big par 72 courses in Florida surrounded by tons of water. Nowadays, I rarely play a par 72 course and usually opt for the executive courses due to time constraints.
You shot an 81, but you didn’t mention that was on a par 3 course.
BTW, Savannah is an awesome place to vacation!
I’ve played a Donald Ross course in the Ocala area. Nice course design and appreciate the history and challenge of his courses. And yes…I chose to spend my extra income on the water hobby over the land hobby, but I live in an area where I’m surrounded by water, so it was an easy choice.
I am still about a 16 handicap, but every once in awhile even a blind squirrel finds an acorn. I actually shot under par once on one of those rinky-dink 9 hole courses (shot a 34 on a 35), but I don't have a clue how it happened, other than some unusually lucky consistency in ball striking and few chip-ins. I almost always play the same really nice public course (an old Donald Ross design from the 1920s) that is only about 2 miles from my house, but shy away from courses with copious amounts of waters and traps, so my ego isn't too brutally injured. Here's a really cool story about a local legend that plays at that course all the time who recently qualified for the Senior British Open.
And by "time constraints" you really mean "my fishing addiction", right?
If I ever do come to Savannah I will hit you up for some tips before I come.
