Do You Need Golf Lessons?

Are you wondering whether a golf lesson or two would improve your golf? Maybe you hit the ball off the fairway too often, or you are just inconsistent, getting a par on one hole and a double bogey on the next. These are good reasons for having a golf lesson.

You might even be playing pretty well, able get round in 82-86, but just unable to break through into the 70s. Or you might be a complete beginner. Whatever the state of your game, having golf lessons may have entered your head.

Some people say: ‘I only play golf for fun, I don’t need golf lessons.’ Others might ask: ‘Are these pros any good at giving someone like me golf lessons? I mean they are all athletes, naturally good at sports, and they probably do things automatically without knowing why.’

Beginners: Go to the local pro

Let’s start at the beginning. If you are just taking up golf, or have been playing for less than a year you will benefit enormously from lessons. Almost any golf pro will be able to give you lessons to help you:

1.Grip the club correctly – this is the basis of all good shots

2.Stand in the right position when you address the ball – also vital

3.Show you how to swing the club up and down

Meanwhile, if you go to a driving range every so often with a 5, 6 or 7 iron – nothing longer, no woods – you can start to learn to hit the ball. But do not make a full swing! To start with, just stand with your feet together, and swing the club back with the arms only, then hit the ball.

Why do this? Because with this exercise you will start to train your muscles to find the ball and connect with the clubhead square.

So with some golf lessons and exercises in hitting, you will be on the way. The big question is whether having lessons will help you improve your game beyond basics.

Again, if you are a beginner I recommend a series of 10-12 lessons, spaced a week or two apart, depending how much time you get for practice – oh, yes, you need to practice when you are learning.

Not many top pros are good at teaching ordinary folk –

Beyond that, my experience with golf lessons has been mixed. You see, some pros are good teachers and some are not. Of course, if you had stacks of money, you could fly to see one of the world’s top teachers every week for lessons.

For most of us that is impossible, so we need a better way of getting golf lessons – and in most cases, th at is not your local pro. Quite frankly, some are good, some are not so good, and some play the game on automatic so they don’t really know how to put you right.

– But here’s a system that will work for you

Instead, I recommend some golf lessons that are designed around the ordinary golfer, who needs to have it explained in simple language and with simple demonstrations. I have been playing golf a long time – with a long lay-off in between – and can tell you that with these lessons make golf simple for any golfer.

You see what you want is someone to explain how to hit the ball 10 yards, or 20 yards form a bunker – not to tell you that you just have to judge it. Little tricks of the trade like this will form part of these golf lessons and will turn you into a much better golfer.