Reply #3: Many examples of that

[Awsi Dooger]

Actually he's left handed but plays right handed. I can think of at least two famous examples, Johnny Miller and Curtis Strange.

And there have been others. Left handed equipment and lessons were considerably more difficult to come by until recently, so many dads taught their lefty kids to play right handed. That's what happened to me. My grandfather had righty clubs and had me swing them in his huge backyard as a young kid, even though I'm lefty in everything else. At age 18 I switched to lefty putting, and if I had it do over again I'd make the complete change. It just seems like I'm fighting things right handed, against my natural instincts. The angles are strange and the lead hand being the stronger hand leads to more twists and turns, as opposed to a passive guide.

Phil Mickelson is an example the other way, a right hander who plays lefty.

And I know Mike Weir wrote to Jack Nicklaus as a young teenager, asking for advice in this regard. Nicklaus told him to keep playing left handed.

BTW, Weaver had a decent round on Thursday, including a birdie on #16, but he really hit behind his second shot on 18, live on ESPN, after a perfect drive. It was a hacker-type shot and came up at least 50 yards short. He shot 76.