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My best tip is to seek a pro and get some sessions or find some sessions for groups on your local course. Getting some basics down early on can rid you of much greef later on if you develop bad habits.

Don't try to get it all right at once, the basics like stance and takeaway are very important.

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and once you take your lesson, practice, practice and practice. You may also want to have you clubs custom fit to you (later on when you groove a swing).

Good luck!
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If money matters I would put them on lessons before fitting. A half set will do at this point.

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I found the best thing I did to help improve my game is have someone video your swing. Allowing you to see it from another perspective allows you to understand what you are doing incorrectly easier. I did that then compared it to a plethora of online videos of pro swings and was able to hopefully start down a path of correcting some flaws.

Also take lessons if you can. I took a winter golf 12 week group training about 10 years ago and that got me going in the right direction early on.

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Tip Number One: Don’t look directly into the sun before you take a swing.

Depends what you want out of this game called golf…

I have a friend who wants to “play at golf.” He just wants to look like a golfer; with the clothes, clubs, and the pseudo-structured swing of a country club clone. It is something he just plays at – and that’s completely cool. He can usually make a loop in 120 strokes, and I make sure to complement him after the round on how good he looks doing it.

But if you want to “go low,” may I suggest that you take lessons, get fitted, find a good practice facility and practice every day, read everything golf related that you can get your hands on, play as many rounds as possible and keep statistics on those rounds so that your are aware of the weak spots in your game, subscribe to The Golf Channel, practice to mitigate the weak spots in your game, sacrifice personal relationships, call in sick to work on a Wednesday so that you can get out to play three or four balls for 18 holes while it’s still wide open and then practice after you play, and practice some more.

"Every man is his own hell" - H.L. Mencken

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Tip Number One: Don’t look directly into the sun before you take a swing.

LOL!! Best advice I've heard yet!

Constantine

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