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Of the, estimated, 6.7 billion people in the world today, approximately, 10%or 6.7 million are left handed.

There are believed to be somewhere between 25-30 million golfers in the world today and , even, if you halved the 10% of left handed people in the world you are still left with approx. 1.25-1.5 million people who play golf that are naturally left handed. That is a whole lot of people!

Until recently left handed golfers were left with very little choice but to play with the same golf clubs as their right handed counterparts, but at last, the big golf manufacturers have woken up to the fact that “lefties “ might actually want to play with golf clubs that feel more natural to them. All the biggest names in golf manufacturing, not only, provide top quality right handed golf clubs but you can access the same top quality of left handed golf clubs too. Names such as, Callaway, Titleist,  Nike,  etc sell their most famous clubs for players, which ever hand they use.

Bob Charles, a native of New Zealand, was the first left handed golfer to win The Open Championship in 1963 at Lytham and St Annes and is considered to be one of golf’s greatest putters of the ball. In 2007, Sir Robert Charles (he was knighted by the Queen in 1999) was the oldest golfer to make the cut on the European Tour, in front of a home crowd, during the Michael Hill New Zealand Open and is the only left handed golf player to be inducted into golf’s Hall of Fame.

Phil Mickelson (born June 16, 1970) is set to return to the PGA tour for the first time in 6 weeks when the star studded WGC-Bridgestone International gets started. The American ranking world number two has spent time away from the competition caring his wife Amy and mother Mary who are both being treated for breast cancer. Mickelson withdrew from the British Open this year, citing his wife’s health, and was taking a break from competitive golf to focus on his family. This will be his fourth and final major of the season.

He has won three major championships and a total of 36 events on the PGA Tour and his nicknamed “Lefty” for his left-handed swing, even though he does everything else right handed. This is because since picking up his first golf club at the age of 18 months he mirrored his father and therefore can play better on his left hand.

The WGC-Bridgestone Invitational began yesterday at Firestone Country Club, here Mickelson already had some success. He won the old NEC World Series of Golf there 1996, finished second the next three years and shared fourth last August. The PGA Championship, which Mickelson won in 2005.

It is also reported that World number one Tiger Woods will also compete in Ohio as he looks for a fifth tour win since knee surgery last year.

While left handed golfers are outnumbered they are certainly not scarce as some sites would lead you to believe. There may only be a small selection of professional left handed golfers, but the number of amateur left handed golfers is surprisingly large. Manufacturers of golf equipment produce large ranges of clubs for the left handed market, so long gone are the days that left handed golfers had to play right handed, or use left handed clubs that were of lesser quality than right handed clubs.

It might sound obvious, but the best way for a left handed golfer to play golf is to use the right golf equipment. Golfbuyitonline have one of the largest collections of left handed golf clubs in the UK and are authorised retailers for some of the best names in golf including Titleist, Callaway, TaylorMade, Cobra and more. On top of all of that, they have a left handed PGA professional member of staff ready to assist with any left handed golf club queries. Golfbuyitonline stock and supply left handed drivers, left handed irons, left handed fairways, left handed rescue clubs and left handed putters.

Golfbuyitonline’s range of left handed drivers includes left handed Callaway FTi Square drivers, left handed Ping Rapture drivers, left handed TaylorMade Tour Burner drivers and many more. The left handed FT-i driver is Fusion Technology pushed to the extreme, creating golf’s most complete inertial design. The left handed Ping Rapture driver features a visible, web-shaped titanium crown injected with lightweight composite which creates a powerful and forgiving option when teeing off.

Considering that during a round of golf you will spend most of your time on the putting green, selecting the right left handed putter is incredibly important if you’re looking to reduce your score and improve your game. Golfbuyitonline’s selection of left handed putters include left handed Odyssey Marxman Mallet putters, left handed Scotty Cameron Red X3 Charcoal Mist putters, left handed Ping Redwood Anser putters and many, many more. Left handed Odyssey Marxman putters offer every possible advantage promoting solid feel and true roll for putts that track to the hole. Left handed Scotty Cameron Red X3 Charcoal Mist putters feature a classic, single bend shaft with quarter shaft of offset for the ideal toe-flow through the stroke. Its design takes a classic mallet into another realm of performance and style.

For more information on left handed golf clubs click onto Golfbuyitonline for detailed product descriptions and much more.

Left handed golfers are seen to be pretty rare, but with the amount of top brands manufacturing left handed clubs, they can’t be that rare. Mike Weir, Phil Mickelson, Steve Flesch, Russ Cochran, Kevin Wentworth and Greg Chalmers are six left handed golfers on the PGA Tour. Of these, Mike Weir and Phil Mickelson have both won the US Masters so despite that there are so few left handed golfers, titles can be won. Len Mattiace is left handed but plays with his right and lost out to Weir at the US Masters. Golf Buy It Online supplies high quality left handed golf equipment from top brands such as Callaway, Nike, TaylorMade and more. You’ll be able to find all the best clubs such as the Callaway Golf FTi Graphite Square Drivers, Nike Golf Ignite Steel Shafted Irons, TaylorMade Golf Burner XD Steel shafted Irons as well as many more.