Bert
Club Champion
Me to. Good luck
Lessons - Do's and Dont's
- Thread starter TheCaddie
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Me to. Good luck
Junior
Tour Winner
Half an hour is fine. I've just started to take lessons and I prefer it as I always come away with one or two thoughts and things to work on. An hour with my concentration span wouldn't work
Another small benefit I found that might work for you is to practise at the place where you are taking the lessons. What I found is that in the week when I'm hitting balls the pro often stops for a minute to chat and take a quick look at how I'm progressing.
Good luck and I hope it works for you.
Doh
Journeyman Pro
After each lesson ask the pro what he would reccomended you work on before your next lesson. Always have a purpose when you practice don't just go out hit balls.
Robobum
Money List Winner
I'd just book the one lesson with someone first. I'd want to be sure that he was able to get his advice across to me in a way I understood and was receptive to.
You are assessing him too.
You are assessing him too.
User 105
Journeyman Pro
As above
Make sure you make enough time to practice.
Write down what your pro has told you to work on right after the lesson. Or even better get the pro to e-mail you with the lesson details and a video (Like mine does ). I go back over my lesson notes every so often to as a bit of a check.
Don't have another lesson unless the changes start to feel natural, like you don't have to think about what you are doing, or if you really are struggling to make the change. Then go back. If you make too many changes before they settle in you'll just keep going back and forth.
Be prepared to get worse before you get better
Make sure you make enough time to practice.
Write down what your pro has told you to work on right after the lesson. Or even better get the pro to e-mail you with the lesson details and a video (Like mine does
). I go back over my lesson notes every so often to as a bit of a check.Don't have another lesson unless the changes start to feel natural, like you don't have to think about what you are doing, or if you really are struggling to make the change. Then go back. If you make too many changes before they settle in you'll just keep going back and forth.
Be prepared to get worse before you get better
MadAdey
Money List Winner
Expect the first lesson to be all about the grip and posture, do not expect to really do much regarding your actual swing. What he teaches is going to feel uncomfortable and awkward, but once you get use to it you will start to see a quick improvement in your ball striking. Just stick with exactly what you have been shown. Get him to take a picture of you at address so you can use that to make sure you are doing what you have been told when you are on your own practising.
Half an hour every 2 weeks is my advice, as that will give you enough time to practice in between. An hour lesson as a Beginner is a waste IMO, you have too much to learn and you can only take so much in at any one time. It might be worth seeing if at the end you could use 4 of those lessons in one go and have a 9 hole playing lesson. I think that can be of great value to any beginner.
Half an hour every 2 weeks is my advice, as that will give you enough time to practice in between. An hour lesson as a Beginner is a waste IMO, you have too much to learn and you can only take so much in at any one time. It might be worth seeing if at the end you could use 4 of those lessons in one go and have a 9 hole playing lesson. I think that can be of great value to any beginner.
Farneyman
Tour Winner
This is a great idea and worth checking out. I had a playing lesson at the end of last season and it was very interesting to say the least. Could be worth doing halfway through your block if possible as the pro may identify some simple tips on the course that you may not have thought about before.
NorfolkShaun
Journeyman Pro
Make sure you go into them with an open mind and listen.
Also if you can tie a few together and go out on the course with your pro
Also if you can tie a few together and go out on the course with your pro
MadAdey
Money List Winner
I had one about 10 years ago and was interesting to see the game through the eyes of someone who knew what he was doing. I always felt I was throwing away shots, but didn't know what to do about it. The pro identified it straight away and have me a different way to approach the game and it worked pretty quickly too as my handicap did drop by a a couple of shots soon after.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Hope the lessons help you. I have a mate who is a PGA Pro who lives in Hereford and is very good, let me know if you need his details.
Bert
Club Champion
Thank you. Will see how I get on.
duncan mackie
Money List Winner
this is a really key factor in any course of lessons - or arguably any attempt to improve overall. Recognising it is important.
theCaddie - it doesn't matter if you are a beginner or a top pro; any competent teacher will start at the beginning with grip, stance, posture and it's almost a given that there will be changes to what you do at the moment! If you have been playing for 20 years with a particular grip, and only wish to have lessons to make the most out of that grip, then by all means tell him so - but you hardly seem to be in that situation yet!
most importantly enjoy the process overall
TheCaddie
Challenge Tour Pro
Thanks Duncan. Don't worry, I am going in with a completely open mind!!
Really looking forward to it now.
G
guest100718
Guest
dont have to many in a short space of time. It can take a while to see any real difference in your game.
