Righty or Lefty?

When my daughter was two, I saw a beautiful pink set of golf clubs for sale at Dick's. I couldn't resist and I bought them on the spot. For a year, the clubs sat in my garage as we waited for our daughter to get old enough to go to the driving range. The day arrived and my husband and I dressed her in a cute skirt and grabbed the pink clubs in excitement. We got to the range, gave her a club and waited to watch that perfect first swing! I even had the camera set. My daughter walked up to the tee, turned around and tried to hit the club the other way. Backwards. The WRONG way. We turned her around. She turned again. Oops. "She's a lefty," my husband said, and walked to the pro shop to see if they had a lefty driver she could use. Sure enough that worked and she hit some good ones. But the poor pink, brand new clubs went home with us unused. I bought a lefty driver and placed it in her righty club bag. Luckily her sister was a righty!

Lesson learned...try out used sports equipment first with your kids before making a big purchase if you think your child might be a lefty. Most of the equipment is sold in righty (golf clubs, baseball gloves, etc) so you have to hunt for lefty things. But always encourage your kids to try out both sides because you never know if you have a righty or a lefty. And sometimes your child could be both!!

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