Curtis Strange - "Playing From the Wrong Side" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle.

Mike Gonzalez 0:13

Then it started to hook just You are a natural left-hander as I understand. So uh what do you do left-handed? What do you do right-handed?

SPEAKER_02 0:23

Well, Mike, I kind of fell through the cracks in first grade. I I'm dominant right side, but I kick left-footed and I write left-handed and I shoot a gun left-handed. Um play pool left-handed, but everything else right-handed. Um does that help me in golf? Probably not. Uh does it make me stutter? Probably so. Does it make me go in circles sometimes? Probably so. But uh I uh, you know, I don't know. I uh am I ambidextrous? Hell no. Um I just uh I just fell through the cracks and they didn't switch me over to all right-handed growing up, but uh it's fun, it's different. Um people ask a lot of questions.

Mike Gonzalez 1:04

Did you ever play left-handed golf at all?

SPEAKER_02 1:07

No, I hit I hit a desperate slice when I try to hit left-handed. Um and I and uh but I did when I was was uh when I was uh early on tour, I got a lesson from uh from a left-handed player on what I do wrong to try to cure this slice. And uh it was really interesting. But uh, you know, those who Bruce and I've seen over the years there's been a handful of players that uh could play damn near as well left-handed as they did right-handed, and it's phenomenal the ability to do that. They make it look easy. It is not. I mean, we are all of a sudden we are all of a sudden absolutely beginners at the game when we switch on the other side of the ball, and we we might make contact, but it's ugly. And so uh But it's it's something that uh uh in this game over the long haul, you're gonna have to hit one or two shots left-handed, so it's a nice uh asset to have, if you haven't.

Mike Gonzalez 2:00

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Intro Music 2:23

Whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. When it started to slice, just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay.