NALG
  • HOME
  • 2025 Tourney Info
  • State Tournaments
    • Arizona
    • Colorado
    • Florida
    • Indiana
    • Michigan
    • Minnesota
    • New Mexico
    • NorCal
    • Ohio
    • South Carolina
    • Texas
    • Tourn. Director Resources
  • Newsletters
  • History
  • Past NALG Champions
  • Past Events
    • 2024 NALG Scores
    • 2024 Results >
      • 2024-Colorado
      • 2024-Florida
      • 2024-Indiana
      • 2024-Michigan
      • 2024-Minnesota
      • 2024-New Mexico
      • 2024-NorCal
      • 2024-Ohio
      • 2024-South Carolina
      • 2024-Texas
    • 2023 NALG Scores
    • 2023 NALG Pictures
    • 2023 Results >
      • 2023-Florida
      • 2023-Indiana
      • 2023-Michigan
      • 2023-Minnesota
      • 2023-New Mexico
      • 2023-NorCal
      • 2023-Ohio
      • 2023-South Carolina
      • 2023-Texas
    • 2022 NALG Scores
    • 2022 NALG Pictures
    • 2022 WALG >
      • World Results
    • 2022 Results >
      • 2022 Florida
      • 2022 Indiana
      • 2022 Michigan
      • 2022 NorCal
      • 2022 Ohio
      • 2022 Texas
    • 2021 Champions
    • 2021 National Photos
    • 2021 PAST Events
    • 2020 Events
  • ADD TO MAILING LIST
  • Membership
  • Contacts
  • Friends of the NALG
  • Recognition
  • In Memoriam
  • Blog
  • Press Releases
  • Media Coverage
  • HOME
  • 2025 Tourney Info
  • State Tournaments
    • Arizona
    • Colorado
    • Florida
    • Indiana
    • Michigan
    • Minnesota
    • New Mexico
    • NorCal
    • Ohio
    • South Carolina
    • Texas
    • Tourn. Director Resources
  • Newsletters
  • History
  • Past NALG Champions
  • Past Events
    • 2024 NALG Scores
    • 2024 Results >
      • 2024-Colorado
      • 2024-Florida
      • 2024-Indiana
      • 2024-Michigan
      • 2024-Minnesota
      • 2024-New Mexico
      • 2024-NorCal
      • 2024-Ohio
      • 2024-South Carolina
      • 2024-Texas
    • 2023 NALG Scores
    • 2023 NALG Pictures
    • 2023 Results >
      • 2023-Florida
      • 2023-Indiana
      • 2023-Michigan
      • 2023-Minnesota
      • 2023-New Mexico
      • 2023-NorCal
      • 2023-Ohio
      • 2023-South Carolina
      • 2023-Texas
    • 2022 NALG Scores
    • 2022 NALG Pictures
    • 2022 WALG >
      • World Results
    • 2022 Results >
      • 2022 Florida
      • 2022 Indiana
      • 2022 Michigan
      • 2022 NorCal
      • 2022 Ohio
      • 2022 Texas
    • 2021 Champions
    • 2021 National Photos
    • 2021 PAST Events
    • 2020 Events
  • ADD TO MAILING LIST
  • Membership
  • Contacts
  • Friends of the NALG
  • Recognition
  • In Memoriam
  • Blog
  • Press Releases
  • Media Coverage
  NALG

What a weekend for lefties

7/25/2023

2 Comments

 
July 23 was a good day for lefties.  On that day Brian Harman won the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool and Akshay Bhatia won the Barracuda Championship in Truckee, California.  It was the first time that two lefties won on the PGA Tour on the same day.

It was bound to happen sometime.  One might have expected it to happen when Phil Mickelson won one of his 45 tour titles.  However, there are only a few weeks a year that the PGA Tour holds two events on the same weekend.  In fact, in 2023 there are four such instances.

Harman becomes the 5th lefty to win a major following Bob Charles, Mike Weir, Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson.  Weir's and Watson's wins were at the Masters while Mickelson won each major except for the U.S. Open.  Charles won the Open Championship way back in 1963 making all lefties proud.  Mickelson won his Open 50 years later and now Harman 10 years after Mickelson.

I found an article on the internet listing the lefties to win on the PGA Tour.  Below are the players with their win totals.

Phil Mickelson - 45
Bubba Watson - 12
Mike Weir - 8
Bob Charles - 6
Steve Flesch - 4
Brian Harmon - now 3
Ted Potter Jr. - 2
Russ Cochran - 1
Ernie Gonzalez - 1
Sam Adams - 1
Greg Chalmers - 1
Eric Axley - 1
Cody Gribble - 1
Garrick Higgo - 1
Akshay Bhatia - 1

Mickelson's total of 45 wins is more than the other 14 lefties to win.

Expect this list to grow.  There are more and more good college players that could eventually win on tour.  There are also lefties on the DP World Tour and LPGA Tour that could win with others in the pipeline.

It certainly is a good time to be a lefty and better than when I was in high school and my choice of clubs were Ping or PGA Ryder Cup II's.  (I think I made the wrong choice then as the Pings would be collector items today!)
2 Comments

    Author

    I confess!  I am an avid golfer.  I also play left-handed.  Since I now manage the National Association of Left-handed Golfers website, I thought I would start a Blog...this blog!  What will I have to say?  Stay tuned and find out.

    Archives

    June 2025
    March 2025
    January 2025
    November 2024
    October 2024
    July 2024
    April 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    October 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly