A Lefties Club---anyone, anyone?

[tomwed]

I'm left handed and this morning I played with someone else who is left handed. Even though I play almost everyday with strangers, playing with another lefty doesn't happen too often. Everytime I play with a lefty I ask them if they were ever in a foresome of lefties. The answer is always "no" with one exception.

I played with a lefty from Canada who is in a club of lefties. Some of them golf together.

Only a lefty or maybe the mom of a lefty [sorry dads] would understand that we are indeed different. We overcome a world of right handedness whether we realize it or not. They put us on first base, right field and hope we can pitch or box. Scissors hurt our thumbs until they made special ones. I have been seated in a special seat so that my left arm does not bump into anyone soup spoon [as if lefties have spastic left arms]. We are always translating directions. It goes on and on.

Just once I would like to be in a room full of lefties. Your right handed spouses can't come. I wonder what it would feel like. I wonder what we would talk about. I wonder what we have in common. I wonder if by nature, since we accommodate more than others we see thing differently. I know statistically we don't live as long.

Is there such a lefty club here? Is there any interest.

[rp001]

Be careful on this site mentioning " lefties". The righties will be out in hoards any minute now.

[Northwoods]

I love your post!!! I agree, there are so many things we've gotten used to... like using a right-handed scissors. I also have to think about where I sit at a dinner table so that I don't "bump elbows" with a right-handed person.

[virgind]

This is interesting I'm left handed or as sometimes referred port sider and growing up I used my right hand a lot. I write left handed shoot a rifle left handed a hand gun right handed and bat a ball right handed.Ambidextrous I believe is the word is.I guess it would be interesting to talk to other people about how it was growing up.

[Average Guy]

I am left-handed and play tennis. It has happened more than once that I have been on a doubles court with three other lefties.

[Daisy]

I am a lefty and I am always excited to find another left handed pickleball player. It is such a disadvantage to play a lefty and righty against 2 right handed players.
I would love to get together with other lefties and share stories about our experiences.
I write left, but golf, cut, and bat right handed.
We are a creative group:)

[stroglass]

I'm left handed and I think a club for us would be a great idea. Its true that Unless your left handed you can not understand the problems we can encounter.
Let's be honest we are special and should honor that

[kcrazorbackfan]

I'm right handed but play golf left handed; can I join?

[maryanna630]

I too play tennis. I serve right handed and am two handed on both sides with my ground strokes. Growing up, I just became, of necessity, pretty ambidextrous. Driving a stick shift helped. The nuns in grammar school always tried to make me right handed and I learned to protest and do what was right for me.

[Wandatime]

I'm left-handed but play golf right handed. That is because I'm left-eyed as well. And left-legged.

[HimandMe]

I'm feeling LEFT out. ; )

[kcrazorbackfan]

I'm left-handed but play golf right handed. That is because I'm left-eyed as well. And left-legged.

:coolsmiley::coolsmiley:

[Wandatime]

I'm feeling LEFT out. ; )

Hardee har har. We'll let you play if you can demonstrate one single thing you can do left-handed, how's that?

[tomwed]

I too play tennis. I serve right handed and am two handed on both sides with my ground strokes. Growing up, I just became, of necessity, pretty ambidextrous. Driving a stick shift helped. The nuns in grammar school always tried to make me right handed and I learned to protest and do what was right for me.
My nuns were considered progressive. They told my mom that they would give me permission to write left handed. My cousin's nuns were not. He had to write right handed.

[tomwed]

I'm right handed but play golf left handed; can I join?
Sorry---
To me, hitting a baseball or swinging a golf club the opposite way is not that special and can be easily learned, especially when you are young. I don't think it's the same with throwing a ball or shooting a rifle. When you walk up a flight of stairs see which foot starts the flight. For me, it's always the left foot.

[Wandatime]

Crap, rules already and we haven't even gotten the club off the ground.

[Greg Nelson]

The nuns tied my left hand behind my back until I started to stutter..

[graciegirl]

You ain't right. None of you.

But you're o.k. and I'm o.k. Well pretty much.

[kcrazorbackfan]

Crap, rules already and we haven't even gotten the club off the ground.

I'm pretty ambidextrous; learned how to do a lot of stuff LH before the right shoulder surgery. You're right, too many rules already; think I'll continue being a lone wolf and just play as a single, or will play with a chosen few. 😉

[dbussone]

The nuns tied my left hand behind my back until I started to stutter..


Oh gosh. That brings back some memories.

[graciegirl]

Oh gosh. That brings back some memories.


Gosh. Makes me kinda glad I was a Protestant until I was twenty. Those girls were MEAN.

BUT most folks with a Catholiic education did alright for themselves.

[tomwed]

George H. W. Bush Republican 1989–1993 Left-handed 4

Bill Clinton Democratic 1993–2001 Left-handed 8

Barack Obama Democratic 2009–present Left-handed 6

18 over the last 26 years [future 20 over 26 years]

"Our calculation of the chances of four out of five US presidents being left-handed was slightly awry in the article below. We gave the probability as 0.00009, given that one in 10 of the population is left-handed. That is the probability of any particular sequence of one right-handed and four left-handed presidents. The odds of that occurring in any order would be 0.00045" 9 out of 20,000

quote (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/24/barack-obama-mccain-white-house-left-handed)

[jebartle]

The ole boy and I are both left handed for everything except golf....Told by pro that it would be to our advantage to play right handed, STILL WAITING!
This is true for the ole boy and I have my moments of brilliance!

side note: If the nun in grade school had her way, I would be right-handed....Had my knuckles wacked a couple of times but stuck to my guns!

[tomwed]

The ole boy and I are both left handed for everything except golf....Told by pro that it would be to our advantage to play right handed, STILL WAITING!
This is true for the ole boy and I have my moments of brilliance!

side note: If the nun in grade school had her way, I would be right-handed....Had my knuckles wacked a couple of times but stuck to my guns!
Did you know that Phil Mickleson's father was a teaching pro and Phil is right handed in everything but golf? His father would taught him the swing face to face.

[buzzy]

Did you know that Phil Mickleson's father was a teaching pro and Phil is right handed in everything but golf? His father would taught him the swing face to face.

I am left handed and always thought that I needed a left handed golf instructor. However, it is an advantage to be face to face, as if looking in a mirror.

[jebartle]

Did you know that Phil Mickleson's father was a teaching pro and Phil is right handed in everything but golf? His father would taught him the swing face to face.

Thanks tomwed....Did not know that one!

[buzzy]

Did you know that Phil Mickleson's father was a teaching pro and Phil is right handed in everything but golf? His father would taught him the swing face to face.

I am left handed and always thought that I needed a left handed golf instructor. However, it is an advantage to be face to face, as if looking in a mirror.

[tomwed]

I am left handed and always thought that I needed a left handed golf instructor. However, it is an advantage to be face to face, as if looking in a mirror.
The golf problem or any sport lesson, as you well know is that when you are reading instructions lefties read the words "right knee" and have to change it to "left knee". There ought to be an app that "translates" any kind of instruction from right handed to left handed. How hard would that be to change the text from right to left at the push of a button?
[it probably exists, i never looked--i'm using youtube for lessons now]

[kcrazorbackfan]

Did you know that Phil Mickleson's father was a teaching pro and Phil is right handed in everything but golf? His father would taught him the swing face to face.

That's how I taught my wife to play; I play left and she play's right and she just mirrored me.

[buzzy]

The golf problem or any sport lesson, as you well know is that when you are reading instructions lefties read the words "right knee" and have to change it to "left knee". There ought to be an app that "translates" any kind of instruction from right handed to left handed. How hard would that be to change the text from right to left at the push of a button?
[it probably exists, i never looked--i'm using youtube for lessons now]

Yeah, I've marked up my golf book to make those changes. I also use a lot of youtube videos. I think a factor working against a global substitution in the word processor is that someone would still have to proofread the updated text to catch the few goofs.

[tomwed]

Maybe a club is too much.
Maybe a left handed meet and greet.

I just went to the Guinness Record Site. I was wondering if there is a category of the most amount of left handed people to gather together at one time.
I didn't see one and I don't know if one can be created. But I do know that there needs to be proof. Something that is measurable.


But if it could be done--it probably could be set here. Although I don't know where we could meet. There could be 10 to 15,000 left handed villagers that don't need to go to work. We could verify numbers with a sign in sheet. Officials would have to watch the signer both print their name and sign their name. There's the proof.

Food vendors will show up. There doesn't need to an admission fee or collection of any kind.

Maybe we can get Bubba Watson to make a speech or a video. Watson was born and raised in Bagdad, Florida, near Pensacola.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[DougB]

I would give my left arm to be a leftie!

[tomwed]

I would give my left arm to be a leftie!
Then you'd always be right.

[DougB]

Then you'd always be right.

Exactly

[outlaw]

I have a bad knee. Can we start a club for people who have a bad knee?

[nhpaul]

hey outlaw...sorry to hear about your bad knee. is it your right knee, your left knee or you wee knee?

[Happinow]

I, too am a lefty. Ever try tearing off the sheet of plastic wrap or aluminum foil? It's made for right handed people. What a time I have trying to do this activity and what a mess I have when trying. My wrap is wripped to pieces!! I'm learning to turn the wrap box around and tear as a right handed person would. What about those measuring cups? Those too are made for right handed people as the measures are on one side of the cup. I write left handed but golf and use scissors right handed. To this day I have to stop and think about the letter "C" because I forget which way to write it. Must have been a confusing letter for me as a youngster. In school when we would play softball, nobody wanted me on their team because I put the baseball glove on my left hand when playing the outfield, and when I caught the ball I would have to take the glove off to throw the ball! By that time my opponents already had gained at least a base on me. So, being a lefty isn't has easy as one may think. However, it has made me more creative in my daily activities.

[wrprok]

I'm a lefty also, and so is my wife! With about 10% of the population left handed, are there any statisticians out there who can tell me what the odds are of two lefties marrying?

[luckylilly]

I feel left out, but right with the world.
Do you make "3" using your last 3 fingers or 3 by holding down your pinky with your thumb?
I, too lead left, look left, shoot left, but it's all right

[Mike W]

I throw and swing left-handed, but I write and bowl right-handed. As a plumber that swings a wrench on a regular basis, I have the advantage of equal strength in both arms. That comes in handy when I'm in a cabinet underneath a customer's sink. I always thought I was little strange, but after reading the other posts I'm pretty normal!

[Villages PL]

I'm Ambidextrous which sometimes presents problems, like in tennis. I don't play a lot of tennis but when I do I sometimes can't make up my mind which hand to use.

In baseball, I bat righty. When I'm in the outfield, I feel more comfortable catching with my gloved left hand. But then I want to throw with my left and I can't because I have a glove on.

If someone starts a club for lefties I'll come because I don't want to be LEFT-out.

Here's a question for the club: Do lefties tend to be lefties in other ways?

[buzzy]

I think that the ACLU would sue the club to permit righties in.

[TNLAKEPANDA]

I'm left-handed but play golf right handed. That is because I'm left-eyed as well. And left-legged.

You are a funny girl :clap2:

[Happinow]

Not to hijack this thread, but it seems that left handed people are able to perform activities with their right hand as well. I'm curious as to how many right handed people can do activities with their left hand? It has been my experience that right handed people do not have the same flexibility with using both hands as left handed people do.

[tomwed]

I'm a lefty also, and so is my wife! With about 10% of the population left handed, are there any statisticians out there who can tell me what the odds are of two lefties marrying?

hmmmmmm....
I know there are more left handed boys than girls. Do you have children? My grandmother was left handed. I'm the only one on both sides and my kids are righty's. I love them anyway and pretend they are normal. :)

[tomwed]

I'm a lefty also, and so is my wife! With about 10% of the population left handed, are there any statisticians out there who can tell me what the odds are of two lefties marrying?

US population 300 million

lets say if 1 out of 10 are left handed and there are twice as many left handed men
30 million = 20 million men and 10 million women

56% of 18 yr old or older Americans are married
160 million= 80 million men and 80 million women

16 million married people are left handed
11 million men 5 million women

therefore the odds are 1 out of 4,389 that both partners are left handed

[Average Guy]

US population 300 million

lets say if 1 out of 10 are left handed and there are twice as many left handed men
30 million = 20 million men and 10 million women

56% of 18 yr old or older Americans are married
160 million= 80 million men and 80 million women

16 million married people are left handed
11 million men 5 million women

therefore the odds are 1 out of 4,389 that both partners are left handed

I am a statistician and the question is not that difficult.

The assumptions that you made are:

1 in 10 married people are lefthanded
Twice as many married men are lefthanded than married women

In order to meet those two assumptions, the odds of a married man being lefthanded would be 2/15 and a married woman being left handed 1/15. (Taken together that gives you 3 out of 30 married people being lefthanded, which is the same as 1 out of 10.)

So, if a random selection of one male and one female were made, the probability that they were both lefthanded would be 2/15 times 1/15, which is 2/225, or 1 out of 112.5.

[tomwed]

I am a statistician and the question is not that difficult.

The assumptions that you made are:

1 in 10 married people are lefthanded
Twice as many married men are lefthanded than married women

In order to meet those two assumptions, the odds of a married man being lefthanded would be 2/15 and a married woman being left handed 1/15. (Taken together that gives you 3 out of 30 married people being lefthanded, which is the same as 1 out of 10.)

So, if a random selection of one male and one female were made, the probability that they were both lefthanded would be 2/15 times 1/15, which is 2/225, or 1 out of 112.5.


I'm not a statistician. I didn't know what to do with the numbers. I do know a lot of people. Until today, I didn't know any that both husband and wife were left handed. Go figure.