Phil Mickelson
It shouldn't be a surprise that Mickelson, the golfer known as "Lefty," is our top left-hander. With his 42 wins on the PGA Tour, including five majors, Mickelson is the lead dog by miles.
Though many people may know James Garfield primarily as the second president to be assassinated—in 1881, just four months after his inauguration—he was also the first known southpaw to occupy the Oval Office.
But handedness has its roots in the brain—right-handed people have left-hemisphere-dominant brains and vice versa—and the lefties who claim Einstein weren't all that far off. While he was certainly right-handed, autopsies suggest his brain didn't reflect the typical left-side dominance in language and speech areas.
Left-handed athletes have an advantage in sports that involve aiming something towards an opponent, whether that's a baseball or tennis ball, or a contact sport such as boxing. The simple fact is, lefties are kind of rare. That's pretty empowering for children who are left-handed and want to play sports.
True Fact: Tiger Woods used to play golf left handed, but switched when he was 11, because the game was too easy.
About 10 percent of the world's population is left-handed. But within the world of golf, that number gets even smaller, as only about 5 percent of the PGA Tour is left-handed.
Our confidence intervals at a 95% confidence level show that the average IQ for a left handed person is between 117.73 and 127.19 and for a right handed person it is between 109.9 and 123.5.
Left-handers or lefties are often considered unlucky in many cultures, including the Indian culture. We are told to accept prasad with our right hands only, and this hand is preferred for all our rituals, tilak, yagna, etc.
Elon Musk is right handed.
In support of this, many studies have found that left-handed men are overrepresented among modern professional fighters, but studies typically find no difference in fighting success between left and right-handed fighters.
As handedness is a highly heritable trait associated with various medical conditions, and because many of these conditions could have presented a Darwinian fitness challenge in ancestral populations, this indicates left-handedness may have previously been rarer than it currently is, due to natural selection.
Why Does a Left-Handed Pitcher Have an Advantage? Both left-handed pitchers and batters do better in baseball. Since the majority of hitters are right-handed, lefty pitchers are considered valuable. A curveball from a left-hander breaks inside on a righty – a harder pitch to hit.
In which sport are left handed people banned from playing? Polo. The rules of polo specify that the mallet must be held in the right hand. I assume their is a safety issue when polo players are allowed to hold the mallet in either hand.
According to the Professional Golfers Association, seven per cent of Canadian golfers play left-handed, which is proportionally more than any other nationality. The reason is probably that Canadians pick up a hockey stick first and are therefore imprinted by the time they take up golf.
Do lefties have an advantage? In general, I would say no, they do not have an advantage, if anything the sport is even more challenging. But, on some holes and certain shots they might have an advantage depending on the shot shape they play.
For starters, data do show that left-handers tend to die younger (Coren & Halpern, 1991). Perhaps it is because they also tend to have more accidents. However, Coren and Halpern do mention that environmental factors might account in part for the higher number of accidental deaths in left-handers.
Lefties--or at least relatives of lefties--may be better than right-handed people at remembering events, according to a new study. Since the mid-1980s, scientists have known that the two brain hemispheres of left-handers are more strongly connected than those of right-handers.
But there's still the question of why a pitcher's handedness actually matters. The answer is what, in baseball, are called "platoon splits." "Platoon splits" refers to a fundamental fact about baseball: Righty hitters do better against lefty pitchers, and lefty hitters do better against righty pitchers.
Lefties make up only about 10 percent of the population, but studies find that individuals who are left-handed score higher when it comes to creativity, imagination, daydreaming and intuition. They're also better at rhythm and visualization.
As a result, left-handed people, also known as southpaws, have a competitive advantage in combat because their opponents are likely to be disoriented by their fighting stance. Mixed martial artist Conor McGregor, pictured here in October 2018, is another famous southpaw.
“When we're left-handed, our right brains are usually dominant, and that's where creativity and intuition are centered. So it's often easier for us to be creative than logical.