How much have consistant lessons helped your game?

[Bullitt5339]

I have decided that I want to get to a 10 handicap, and talked to the new teaching pro at our course this week about it. I have scheduled a lesson with him on Friday to see if I like the methods he teaches, but he asked me a simple question that invoked a lot of thought on my part. He asked "What is the worst part of your game?". I immediately answered mid-iron shots, and he said "Well, that's what we'll concentrate on with your 1st lesson then". Now that I think about it, and looking at my stats from the last few rounds, I'm not really sure that's the "worst" part of my game, really.

What my main question is how much taking consistant lessons, once a week or every two weeks helps your game? I am really dedicated to making this work, and becoming a better golfer, and want to come up with a plan with him. Based on my last few scorecards, here's my averages:

Score: 91
Fairways Hit: 10 of 14 (some short though)
GIRs: 2.8 per round (which was why I immediately said mid-irons)
Putts: 34 avg. per round
Up and Downs: avg. 1 per round

Now, looking at my stats, my GIR percentage is horrible, but so is my Up and Downs and putting. So now I'm thinking that concentrating on pitching, chipping and putting would be more beneficial for me, even though I'm hitting my mid-irons pretty bad.

What do you guys think? Concentrate on ball-striking first, and get more GIRs and avoid the big numbers more, or concentrate on chipping, pitching and putting at first, which may have the ability to lower my scores more quickly?

My average par 4 goes like this: Decent off the tee. bad 2nd shot. Chip or Pitch to the green and 2 putt for a Bogey.

[brgolf]

No.

With those statistics the short game is not the problem but the GIR. Do you put yourself in a position off the tee to hit the greens? Do your approach shots predominantly go left right short or long? Are they always, often, sometimes, rarely mishits?

[Zeph]

Granted the teacher knows what he is doing and you follow up by practicing, I don't see why you should not improve.

[Amofada]

34 putts i a lot when you miss 15 greens. You should work on chips and putting

[Zeph]

34 putts i a lot when you miss 15 greens. You should work on chips and putting

If you miss the green bad enough, getting up and down is not a gimmie. The irons is his biggest problem, and lessons could be a good solution.

[Bullitt5339]

My mid-irons are very inconsistant right now. One shot left, one shot right, one short, one low flyer over the green. I typically have good to great position with my drives. 250-260, left hand side of the fairway. Some of my up and downs are right off the fringe, but I tend to always miss to the worst side of the green, and have a horrible chip or pitch to try to save par.

[brgolf]

I would use the lessons to improve the accuracy and distance control for the mid irons and use a rangefinder to key in your distances.

[TN94z]

I would work on the mid-short irons. This will help you hit more GIR, but it will also help your chipping, which will make you putting look better. The better you are with the mid irons, the closer to the greens you would be, which will make getting up and down that much easier. All of the statistics will improve.

If you just work on chipping and putting, your mid irons will probably still be bad, and that will put way too much pressure on you to get up and down.

Chipping around the green is a lot of feel and that is something he can't teach you anyway, IMO.

[The Recreational Golfer]

Try asking for a playing lesson. Then the pro could see what you need to work on and show you how to do it, to a certain extent, at the same time.