Lessons advise

[Alohaed]

The few times I've played, with my new irons, have not been good. My new wedges I am hitting acurately. Awesome. My drives are very good. Yet my irons I am spraying right and left. I have been taking a few lessons, indoors, because I am not following through at impact, was told I was decelarating. All this intailed was me hitting balls with me wrist only, then gradually working to a full swing. I want to take other lessons, yet what? Should I find a pro, at a range, then take a package, so many lessons in so many days? Or, I found a golf school upstate from me, where they would have an "on course playing" lesson, for $120(if I can remember) for 9 holes, or double that for the full 18. They have a school, but I can not afford the few thousand $$ for the course and can't afford to lose 3 days pay for taking off from work. So for the "playing" lesson I wouldn't mind going away for the weekend. Or, would anyone have other suggestions?

[TN94z]

Are your current lessons not working? Or are you just looking for something that is outdoors? Are your lessons always indoors?

I think you should just work with a pro to get the problems worked out. I wouldn't do the "playing lesson" until I had my swing a little more fundamentally sound and was making better contact. IMO, the "playing" lesson would be better to work on course management, club selection, etc....

I don't really put time limits on lessons like 2 lessons every 2 weeks. I just get a lesson, go to the range and work on what I was told, and then when I feel like I have gotten the change engrained, call and schedule a new one. It might be 2 weeks or it might be a month.

[Alohaed]

I had only 3 lessons, to learn to accelerate through the ball, all indoors, at the proshop where I was fitted for my irons. The shaft monitor showed no movement in the shaft when I hit the ball. But the instructor told me everthing about my swing was fine. But I was hitting into a net. Yes, I guess lessons outdoors would be best, to see the actual ball flight. And hopefully at a course, with a natural grass range, not off a mat. I am afraid of messing up the lie angle of my forged Mizzies. 3 lessons, and 5 times at the range, hitting off a mat.

[spmurph]

What part of NY are you in?

[Alohaed]

Queens. Would like something in the borough, or LI(Nassau).

[Koth]

I don't really put time limits on lessons like 2 lessons every 2 weeks. I just get a lesson, go to the range and work on what I was told, and then when I feel like I have gotten the change engrained, call and schedule a new one. It might be 2 weeks or it might be a month.

This is the same thing I do. I don't want to take another lesson until I have fixed what was told to me in the first lesson. Otherwise, it's just a re-cap of what was told to me last lesson, and I don't think I would be getting my moneys worth.

[Alohaed]

Makes sense. But I still then need that one lessson, by someone reputable, to tell me what to work on for hitting the ball straight.

[spmurph]

What part of NY are you in?

Michael Jacobs in Manorville (Long Island). He's a top-notch instructor. I'll pm you a link since I don't know if posting one is against the rules.