Do I need lessons
Suppose you just started to play golf by hitting some balls at the driving range. Your friends took you over to the range at lunch, and you launched a couple of balls into the sunshine and thought you might want to learn the game. Where do you go?
You can learn from friends. Most of us start out this way, which is why we develop so many swing faults. Friends' intentions are good, but their teaching abilities may not be.
You can learn by hitting balls. I learned to play the game this way. The flight of the ball told me everything. I would go to the driving range and hit balls day and night. The pure act of swinging a golf club in a certain way made the ball fly in different trajectories and curves. This learning process is a very slow one because you have to learn through experimentation.
You can learn from books. There are many books written on golf instruction that can lead you through the fundamentals of the game. But you can go only so far by teaching yourself from a book.
You can take lessons from a PGA professional. This is the most expensive and most efficient way to learn the game. Lessons can cost as little as $8 an hour and as much as $300 or more. The expensive guys are the ones you read about in Golf Digest and Golf Magazine and the ones you watch on TV. All golf professionals can help you with the basics of the game.
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