English golfer, a lefty (6)

I believe the answer is:

engels

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'a lefty' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'english golfer' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'eng'.
'golfer' becomes 'Els' (Ernie Els - former number one professional golfer).
'eng'+'els'='ENGELS'

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(Other definitions for engels that I've seen before include "Early socialist" , "German philosopher and collaborator of Marx" , "Marx's co-author" , "Early Communist philosopher" , "Friedrich .. . . . . founded communism with Karl Marx" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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