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stoopidboy54

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I've golfed with my family when I was younger but now I have officially become addicted to it and have started in the middle of summer (july-ish). I've been playing once every two weeks and go to the range around once a week, sometimes twice a week trying to develop a consistent swing. I am thinking about getting a lesson because I have never gotten an official lesson before, as me and my buddy make each other better. Should I wait to develop a consistent swing before taking a lesson or should I just get the pro to teach me? Thanks.

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no its best if you don't start before you take a lesson so your swing is correct
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kennay92 Great Member

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i would go ahead and take it as soon as you can

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I've golfed with my family when I was younger but now I have officially become addicted to it and have started in the middle of summer (july-ish). I've been playing once every two weeks and go to the range around once a week, sometimes twice a week trying to develop a consistent swing. I am thinking about getting a lesson because I have never gotten an official lesson before, as me and my buddy make each other better. Should I wait to develop a consistent swing before taking a lesson or should I just get the pro to teach me? Thanks.

One of the regrets in my life was that I didn't take lessons at an early age and build a swing foundation that would last the rest of my playing days. Instead I've spent an enormous amount of time and quite a bit of money trying to reshape my flawed swing and undo 20 years of bad habits. You ask if you should develop a consistent swing before taking a lesson - I think the answer is a firm "NO". You may build a consistent swing, but it is very likely to be a consistent BAD swing which will have a number of major flaws. All your work to build that consistent swing will only be reinforcing much of the wrong way, which will all have to be undone. It would be far more productive to get the fundamentals right and then spend all the practice time building a consistently GOOD swing.

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If you can do it now, then do it. Especially with the season winding down, if you can get in one or two before you have to shut it down for the winter it will give you a bunch of things that you can work on in the house over the winter. Then go back in the spring and take a few more to get everything solid again after the layoff and you will be much better by next season. Many pros in cold areas have indoor facilities so you could even continue the lessons over the winter if you think it is doing some good.

The other thought is to just have fun with it and play as much as the weather allows over the winter. Then next spring start your lessons there. Depending on how well you retain information and how easy you 'get it', it might not do you any good to take them now then have to not play for 5-6 months. You will end up having to start over if you don't get the information and are able to work on it.

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As other posters have said, take a lesson as quick as you can. That way you don't pick up any bad habits. It's probably alot easier to start out with getting good instructions in the beginning rather than to have to un-learn bad habits that you have developed on your own.

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I've golfed with my family when I was younger but now I have officially become addicted to it and have started in the middle of summer (july-ish). I've been playing once every two weeks and go to the range around once a week, sometimes twice a week trying to develop a consistent swing. I am thinking about getting a lesson because I have never gotten an official lesson before, as me and my buddy make each other better. Should I wait to develop a consistent swing before taking a lesson or should I just get the pro to teach me? Thanks.

Based on my experience of these things

. You'll have a somewhat 'natural swing' from the start, if its a good natural swing, lessons now will just mean you'll 'develop it' sooner rather than later, if its a technically poor natural swing and you have lessons now and continue to have lessons, you most likely won't be using the word consistency for a long time until a) you break the back of your 'natural poor swing' or b) give up on the lessons and regress back to your 'natural poor swing' and just get it to be a 'consistent natural poor swing'.

Golf'nBiker Well Established Member

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I too say GO FOR IT. We get instructed on just about everything in life we do....education, driving, career development, swimming..etc. Let a pro show you.

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Practice does NOT make perfect!
Proper practice makes perfect.
Get that lesson.

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Another vote for taking lessons early on vs. having to "unlearn" and "relearn" later on.
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No, don't build a repeatable bad swing. It will be harder for you to correct. Get lessons now.

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