Press cutting: Lefties still lacking in the world of golf

What's really baffling is why so few golfers play left-handed when roughly 12 percent of the population are lefties.

There are half a dozen on the PGA Tour and only two on the European Tour. …

Professor Chris McManus [UCL Psychology] is an expert on the subject. What we are interested in is "sidedness" - the side an individual favors in any specific activity.…

"Handwriting is an incredibly skilled activity," McManus said. "So we write with the hand over which we feel we have most intricate control."

Not every activity requires the same degree of control. …

"About a third of left-handers prefer to throw right-handed," McManus said. "And, curiously, about two percent of right-handers throw with their left hand." …

Human beings are unique in that there is a substantial majority favoring the one side, the right side. …

The human species is the only one to have developed language. …

This language facility is ordinarily found in the left hemisphere of the brain, which controls the right side of the body and explains the link between language and the preponderance of right-handedness in humans. …

Clive Agran, Golf Publisher Syndications