Golf lesson advice

[Golfmoose]

I played yesterday in a club championship through a local golf store and I was lucky enough to win the net champioship so I now have a gift certificate for the store.

One of their stores also have a driving range, where you can get lessons so this is what I plan to use the certificate for. I am just not sure what will be the best way to go about it. They have a deal for 3 1/2-hour lessons, which is the thing I have been looking at.

So here is my questions:
Will it be better to take the lessons now here in the fall so I can work on the game throught the winter and be ready for spring or will it be better to take the lessons in the spring or does that even matter.

I also would like to know how to go about scheduling the three lessons. Should I try to schedule them in a certain schedule (lets say weekly or bi-weekly) for continuity or is it better to schedule them one at a time and work on what I have been taught before I feel I am ready for a new lesson?

[shooter33]

I would think taking them as soon as possible would be best so you can start building good habits. Because if you are doing something wrong you would just be practicing wrong.

[zRam]

get ready though. Your game will suffer as you try to incorporate the new swing changes you learn. It will be very aggravating if you had major issues to work on. If you're happy with your full swing, I'd get them to work on your short game. It will improve your scoring without all the heart ache of working on your full swing. I've been working through an 8 lesson cycle, and I had to just completely quit playing golf and only practice. If you go out and play before you have the new swing grooved you'll be thinking too much about mechanics and have a hard time. You'll be tempted to revert back to your original swing to get through the game, and you might lose what you were working on.

[jaragon126]

Congrats on deciding to take lessons Golfmoose!

I have been a big proponent of taking lessons throughout my golf career, and it has helped alot!

Here is my 2 cents: why not take a couple of lessons this fall & winter, then the last one in the spring.

For me, it never fails: I pick up a bad habit over the winter when I can't play as much so I always take a refresher lesson in the spring. My instructor is awesome, and he isn't the type of guy that says "I want to see you every week". He just tells me to call him if something is going wrong and I can't figure it out myself.

I might even go as far as saying "be careful" if you find an instructor that tells you to set up a lesson schedule with him without even seeing you swing first. How does that instructor even know you will NEED 3 lessons?

Go take a lesson now, and see how that goes. Maybe he will teach you something so powerful that you don't need the remaining lessons. If the instructor is awful, you also don't want to be "stuck" in a group of lessons with him.

And I agree with zRam, practice practice practice!