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Starting from Scratch (Ep 3): Tursky’s first 18 holes as a lefty golfer

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8 years ago

Jun 9, 2018

GolfWRX Editor Andrew Tursky attempts to break 100 in his first 18 holes as a lefty. Can he do it? Watch the full round below.

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Andrew Tursky

He played on the Hawaii Pacific University Men's Golf team and earned a Masters degree in Communications. He also played college golf at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

9 Comments

emil

Jun 11, 2018 at 10:54 am

You are a role model for all the duffers who can’t break 100 playing right handed. Mehbe they should switch to the sinister side too… 😀

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Ken Mattos

Jun 11, 2018 at 9:49 am

Andrew, awesome display of patience and having a plan, hope you reach all your lefty goals,

I did the same thing at the age of 51, now 8 years into the journey, need some clubs? Have a couple sets I can send you if you want some choices.

Reply to email,

Ken

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Adam Crawford

Jun 10, 2018 at 8:41 pm

Love it. This is awesome. It’s a solid testament to the value of playing shots that make sense for the hole. Each hole is a problem set, play the shots the help solve the problem the best. Well done, sir. Well done.

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rymail00

Jun 10, 2018 at 4:33 pm

Damn man congrats lol!

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Albin from sweden

Jun 10, 2018 at 11:30 am

Amazing! This is really great content and interesting to see/follow. Keep doing it and why not make some videos where you hit the range, practice etc. some as well.

Keep it up Tursk, all the best from Sweden

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shawn

Jun 10, 2018 at 1:29 am

You’ve trained and played left handed before because you can’t transfer the kinematics of a right hand golf swing to the left side so quickly. Confess….

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Ian

Jun 10, 2018 at 12:25 am

Wow! That’s impressive Tursky…….Congrats.I reckon you’ll break 85 by the end of the summer.

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Rob

Jun 9, 2018 at 10:08 pm

This is insane! Highly impressive. Really fun to watch. I do suspect that the road to 90 and below will, in comparison, take forever, but I would have bet money you wouldn’t have broken 100 on the first round out, so who knows.

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- steve
  
  Jun 10, 2018 at 12:27 am
  
  With the way he’s chipping and putting, I don’t really think it’ll be that far away. He left a handful of strokes on the course that could’ve been easily avoidable, and I suspect those kind of shots will start disappearing with a little more time on the course. As long as that short game doesn’t drop off, I’m pretty confident he can get under 90 relatively soon.
  
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