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learn to make solid contact with your wedges and each time you can test your swing with the mid to low irons and work your way up to hybrids,fairway woods and finally to the driver to test your swing.

90% practicing
wedges
chipping
putting

focus on making solid contact and develop your swing

1) play 9 holes short par 3 to start off
2) work your way up to longer 9 holes
3) play 18 holes

Titleist 910 D2 9.5 Driver
Titleist 910 F15 & 21 degree fairway wood
Titleist 910 hybrid 24 degree
Mizuno Mp33 5 - PW
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"Yonex ADX Blade putter, odyssey two ball blade putter, both  33"

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Golf is about getting the ball in the hole. You get the ball in the hole with wedges and your putter. If I was introducing someone to the game, I'd start with putting, then chipping and pitching. These are also the least physically demanding swings. Then work back through the clubs, or towards the tee, however you want to think of it.

Brad Eisenhauer

In my bag:
Driver: Callaway Hyper X 10° | Fairway Wood: GigaGolf PowerMax GX920 3W (15°) | Hybrid: GigaGolf PowerMax GX920 3 (20°)
Irons: Mizuno MX-25 4-PW | Wedges: GigaGolf Tradition SGS Black 52°, 56°, 60° | Putter: GigaGolf CenterCut Classic SP3

Ball: Titleist ProV1x or Bridgestone B330S

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With beginners and especially kids, start at the hole and work your way back to the tee. That means the putter first...

When my kids were 5, 6, 7 years old, we would all go to the practice chipping green with cut off 7 irons and cut off putters.

You put the ball on the fringe, chip it on the green with the 7 iron, and then putt them ALL out into the hole!

Start there, and work your way back to the tee a little at a time.

The LAST club you should start to use is a driver, and NOT until AFTER you are a bogie golfer IMHO.

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I think it is important to do what makes you enjoy the game more with one word of caution my mistake:

I thought striking the ball well off the tees and with my irons would lower my score.

Last round I had 50% fairways hit with 4 GIR and a short chip for another 8 greens. I scored a 121 with 18 chips and 55 putts.

So even though my drives and irons made me feel good for a while now my only practice focus is chipping and on the greens.

If I would have the chance to do it over again I would have started from the pin out, so that when my long ball started to get sorted out I could really start to see improvement. Plus I think that chipping and pitching practice recently is teaching me a lot more about the impact position without a lot of other full swing movements or thoughts.

At least the entire learning process has been a huge ammount of fun for me.

In my Grom bag:

Driver........... Burner 9.5* S-Flex
3-Wood......... Burner 15* S-Flex
5-Wood......... Ovation 18* S-FlexIrons............. Pro Combos 3,5-PW Rifle 6.0Wedges......... CG12 52.10, 56.14, 60.10Putter............ 33" VP1 Milled PutterBall................ e6+ or B330-SRangefinder.....

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PUTTING then putting, putting, putting and putting. Then chiping and pitching, then 7 iron, 5 iron, driver.

driver: FT-i tlcg 9.5˚ (Matrix Ozik XCONN Stiff)
4 wood: G10 (ProLaunch Red FW stiff)
3 -PW: :Titleist: 695 mb (Rifle flighted 6.0)
wedges:, 52˚, 56˚, 60˚
putter: Studio Select Newport 1.5

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I learned the game green to tee ... I will teach the game to my kids this way too ... think about this (and if I have duplicated, I am sorry ... I didn't readevery post)

In a "normal" round of 72 strokes:
36 shots are putts
22 shots are iron shots (of varing length)
14 shots are Drives

Short game is key ... you can mis-hit a drive and recover well, but what good is it if you then 3 putt (on a par 4) ...

Just my thoughts
In my Bag:

Driver: Burner 10.5* Stiff shaft
3 WoodBurner 15* stiff shaft
5 WoodBurner 18* stiff ShaftHybrid3DX (18.5*)Irons: (4-LW):Putter: Rossa Indy SportBalls: Reds
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I am learning to play the game right now and have been learning short game first. I started out doing chipping then moved to a half swing then on to a full swing.

I just want to learn how to get the ball in the air and straight then I'll move on to driving ball as far as I can.
Driver:Ping Karsten-I
3-4 Wood:Ping Karsten-I
Hybrids:Alien Golf TI Matrix, Ginty Stan Thompson
5-P Irons:Alien Golf Tour Gold
Putter:Ping Karsten B60
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Last round I had 50% fairways hit with 4 GIR and a short chip for another 8 greens.

I'm really not trying to be offensive, but how in the world can you take 55 putts or an average of slightly more than 3 putts per hole? It just seems to me that becoming a mediocre putter (36 per round or so) should not take too much practice... maybe a day or two or even just knocking some putts around with a propper stroke before you play for 10-20 minutes the first few times you play. getting to be mediocre at other parts of the game is much more difficult... I would think. bottom line... I just don't undrstand spending time practicing putting at first... hitting the ball in the air and being able to chip a ball onto a green facilitate actually playing a "round of golf" far more than taking 35 putts or 40 putts. At first it isn't so much score that is important as it is 1) being able to hit a tee shot out there somewhere near the FW or in the FW 2) being able to hit an approach shot in the air up near the green 3) being able to chip on if green is missed. WHO FRICKEN CARES if you two putt after you sliced 7 balls OB and duffed four more in the FW and chipped over the green 3 times. Practicing putting first seems stupid to me... unless you have tons of time or are too young or some such thing. -just my 2 cents
My Clubs: Callaway FT-i Tour LCG 9.5° w/ Matrix Ozik Xcon 6 stiff; Sonartec GS Tour 14° w/ Graphite Design Red Ice 70 stiff; Adams Idea Pro 2h(18°) & 3h(20°) w/ Aldila VS Proto 80 stiff; Adams Idea Pro Forged 4-PW w/ TT Black Gold stiff; Cleveland CG12 DSG RTG 52°-10° & 58°-10°; Odyssey...
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I would have a beginner start with pitching from 20,30, 40 50 yards while practicing on the putting for distance control. I believe the wedges help you built the foundation for your golf swing.

70% wedges
10% putting
10% chipping

work your way up to mid irons, hybids, fairway wood and eventualy the driver.

Play 9 holes at first to built confidence with the mid irons,pitching, chipping and putting

slowly move up to hybrid fairway woods and driver

Titleist 910 D2 9.5 Driver
Titleist 910 F15 & 21 degree fairway wood
Titleist 910 hybrid 24 degree
Mizuno Mp33 5 - PW
52/1056/1160/5

"Yonex ADX Blade putter, odyssey two ball blade putter, both  33"

ProV-1

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