This reply if by wgtniv from another post:
Hey everybody,
We do hear you lefties on this matter, but there is a technical
hurdle we must overcome in order to be able to do it. Unfortunately,
it's not a simple matter of reversing the Avatar because there are
other parts of the avatar that you may not have noticed before.
For example, if knock your drive into some brush on Bethpage you may
notice some "extra" grass around your feet. That's called a stencil. We
use the stencil to make your avatar look like he's standing in the
grass rather than on top of it. The stencils we have created are
designed to interact with the ground surface from the perspective of a
right handed player, so the extra "grass" is displayed (appropriately)
at their feet.
Each and every hole is thoroughly mapped so that the right stencil
is used in the right places. The trouble with mirroring really
becomes visible in cases where the avatar would be standing in the
fairway (on the far right side) and the ball is in the rough. Those
lies/stencils are all mapped specifically for right-handers so that (in
this case) no stencil is drawn at your feet because your avatar is
standing in the fairway. The exact opposite occurs on the left side of
the fairway where your avatar may be standing in brush instead, but the
ball lies in the fairway. Even though the ball is in the fairway, the
avatar is standing in deep grass and a stencil is used where the avatar
itself is standing. In this case, if the avatar was left handed and in
the right hand rough you'd see him standing in the rough, but the rough
stencil would be basically be growing out of the fairway (where a
righty would normally stand). Obviously that's not appropriate nor
desired. =)
Along with creating left handed avatars we will need to remap the
stencils for lefties on every hole to avoid those odd situations I
described above. On top of all of this we will still need to rework
the avatar animations, the club animations (all clubs are drawn right
handed at the moment) and we also must consider whether or not we would
need to completely reverse the GUI itself to provide a right-to-left
meter/interface instead of a left-to-right meter/interface.
We do plan to implement this feature eventually, but this should
help you guys gain a little understanding about the process and see
that there's a little bit more than meets the eye here.