Lessons
The Advantages Of Taking Professional Coaching For Golfers New And Old
Whether you are just a beginner at golf or have been playing for some years, there is always something new for you to learn or some skill to hone and there is no doubt that the best way to do that is with the help of a professional coach.
However, the problem is that coaching can cost a lot of money.
At the top end of the scale you may think about enrolling at a golf school for an intensive course and immersing yourself for a full 7 days in learning or improving one specific facet of your game. Costs will vary widely depending upon the school you opt for and things like the quality of its instructors and the range of training facilities which the school provides. In every case however the cost is likely to be high and you can certainly think about paying $1,000 to $2,000 or more for a course of this nature.
Your next option may be to consider individual lessons with a local golf professional lasting perhaps 1 or 2 hours every day, or possibly just two or three times a week. This option is certainly one which is worth considering as an alternative to attending a golf school, however it will still be fairly expensive, particularly if you discover that you need to continue your lessons for any length of time.
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HARVEY PENICK'S LITTLE RED BOOK-LESSONS & TEACHING GOLF US $1.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Mar-14-2010 6:29:41 PDT Add to watch list |
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David Leadbetter's Lessons from the Golf Greats HB Book US $5.00 End Date: Sunday Mar-14-2010 7:25:30 PDT Add to watch list |
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ONE MINUTE GOLF LESSONS-GREAT TIPS TO HELP YOUR GAME US $7.57 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Mar-14-2010 11:18:32 PDT Add to watch list |
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* BEN HOGAN FIVE LESSONS FUNDAMENTALS OF GOLF VTG BOOK US $24.99 (1 Bid) End Date: Sunday Mar-14-2010 18:06:46 PDT Add to watch list |
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Golf: Private Lessons Library v.1 - Full Swing vhs US $2.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Mar-14-2010 18:14:57 PDT Add to watch list |
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Golf: Player's Private Coach - Essential Lessons - vhs US $1.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Mar-14-2010 18:15:01 PDT Add to watch list |
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YAMAHA G22\PRO LINK GPS GOLF CAR ENCLOSR + GOLF LESSONS US $184.95 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Mar-14-2010 20:41:27 PDT Add to watch list |
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GOLF CART Deluxe ENCLOSURE 3 COLORS + FREE GOLF LESSONS US $137.49 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Mar-14-2010 21:01:15 PDT Add to watch list |
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1924 Amber Andrews Golf Lessons booklet US $4.95 (1 Bid) End Date: Sunday Mar-14-2010 22:15:05 PDT Add to watch list |
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Lowdown From the Lesson Tee : Correcting 40 of Golf's M US $9.25 End Date: Monday Mar-15-2010 3:02:18 PDT Add to watch list |
So what about a less expensive choice?
Well, an increasingly popular alternative these days is to improve your game by watching DVDs and, before laughing at this idea, you might wish to think about the range of DVDs currently being made by a large number of highly respected professional instructors and the huge number of golfers who are turning to this particular type of tuition.
Not only do DVDs permit a golf professional to literally come into your home and take you through all aspects of the game in great detail and provide you with step by step exercises to follow yourself so that you can master everything from improving your driving to hitting the perfect draw shot, but the great beauty of working with DVDs is that it lets you learn at your own pace and replay each lesson to your heart’s content to ensure that you pick up even the smallest of detail.
But maybe the best thing of all is the fact that your own personal library of golf DVDs is not going to cost you a fortune.
Now, if you can afford it, enrolling at a golf school or personal one to one instruction with your local golf professional will almost certainly produce faster and better results than learning from DVDs. However, instructional DVDs nowadays do run a very close second and you really cannot beat them when it comes to cost.
By: Donald Saunders