Robobum
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£20 for 45 minutes with my pro..... Not that you're interested
Thanks. I've just checked our website - £20 for 1/2 hr.
£20 for 45 minutes with my pro..... Not that you're interested
I wouldn't say i was a 'lesson junkie' but having regular lessons has helped me, more over than just getting out there and playing, as I know if I had just gone out and played, my bad habits would have got worse.
While I do adovcate lessons are a good idea, I openly admit they are not for everyone and there will be those out there that will have never had a lesson in their life, nor will they ever have one but will be very proficient golfers.
I 'only' pay £15 a lesson, and for what I have learned from the guy who teaches me, is damn good value.
At present I have a lesson every two weeks, have done for the past two years. My swing is a work in progress, but with the lessons and a lot of practice at the range I am getting there.
To me, lessons are invaluable, yes I probably could've watched numerous videos on the Internet, read books, magazines, forum posts and took advice from other golfers, be it the right advice or not, but without lessons and the eye of a pro teacher, how would I know if I was doing it right? How would I know if all I was doing was grooving in more bad habits and making things worse?4
Someone wrote, that they had a lesson and everything went wrong; Yes there is every chance that will happen, the same happened to me, I had a rubbish swing, but could play a round happy that I would finish with the same ball I started with, but then I had lessons and it was rubbish, trying to put what I was taught in practice was hard, very hard and very very frustrating, so much so that I would revert to the old ways just so I could get some satisfaction out of my round, but with lessons you have to have the patience and self discipline to persevere to be able to put into practice what you are being taught.
When you go for lessons, unless you have a natural glfing ability, changing your way to a new your way is like 2 steps forward and 1 step back. There will be weeks where you think nothing is happening and is it all worth it, then something will click and it all falls into place. I've had many of those moments and no doubt have many more to come, but through lessons I'm now swinging better, swinging slower, getting a better and more consistent strike on the ball, hitting it further, my slice is 95% gone, but when I do slice I know why, what I did wrong and how to fix it, my swing path has changed I'm now 90% of the time in-2-out, I can now draw the ball and I can now hit them straight which means they now land on the short stuff more often than not.
Could I have done the above without lessons, possibly? Probably? I do not know, but what I do know is that lessons have helped me become a better player, before lessons I was lucky to break 100, this year I made a PB of 83 and got my first official HC of 17.1. Next year I'm going to break 75 and get my HC into single figures.
That aside, lessons are invaluable for me, but I know that they do not suit everyone. All in all it depends on what you want to get out of golf, some are happy to turn up for a round with their mates enjoy the craic and not worry about what they do while playing, others, like me, want to see how far they can take this golf thing and want to push themselves to become a better player**.
**Edit - I'm not saying if you do not have have lessons that you will not become a better player or shoot lower scores, some, many will go their golfing lives without lessons and be very very good golfers.
Your pro must love you. He should be giving you more time between lessons and letting you spend more time practising. You would prob see more benefits if you had a lesson every 4 weeks then use the money u save for extra range time and short game practise.
MY pro refuses to give you lessons more than 3 weekly unless I was practising for at least 3 or 4 hours a day every day as the skills wouldnt be ingrained brfore then. IT TAKE A GOOD THOUSAND OR MORE BALLS FOR A SKILLS TO BECOME INGRAINED
Can't argue with that.
I take a lesson every 6 weeks over the winter working on various areas.
Fortnightly does seem a little excessive IMO. Is there a reason he recommends fortnightly?
Probably because he makes more money that way.