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Learning To Hit Shots Before Attempting To Learn To Play
I played golf a couple of days after Christmas in Rutland MA. The temperature was 38 degrees. A father was out playing with his high school age daughter who had never played before. Apparently, he had gotten her a new set of clubs for Christmas including a driver with a nice pink graphite shaft. Her clubs appeared to be an unfitted, inexpensive set of knockoffs. The father stood over the girl on each shot giving her a list of instructions. She was unable to make contact with the ball a good percentage of the time. Unfortunately, this scene gets repeated all over the golf world, except for the temperature. That had to make the experience even less fun. This type of experience is one of the reasons a lot of people think golf is hard.
In order for golf to be a lot easier you need to learn to hit shots before you attempt to play on the course and you’re not likely to be able to do that by getting instruction from someone who can barely hit the ball themselves. Even if the person instructing you can hit the ball that doesn’t mean they can teach you how to do it.
Learning to play golf can be likened to leaning to hunt. The first thing you need to do is learn how to shoot a gun. You wouldn’t think about going hunting if you hadn’t shot a gun before.
What you need to do is get fitted for a couple of clubs by a competent fitter/teacher. You don’t need a whole set of clubs to start, especially if they don’t fit. That would be like trying to learn how to run in a pair of shoes that didn’t fit. Learn from the hole back. By that I mean learn how to hit short distances before you attempt to hit full shots. You want to be able to go to the course paying attention to where you’re going to hit it. Not wondering whether you’re going to hit it or not and certainly not thinking about how you’re going to swing. Learn a few basics, grip, stance, and set-up. You can practice those things at home, in front of a mirror. It only takes a few minutes a day. You can hit 60 foot pitch shots in the back yard if you have room. You can also look into Almost Golf Balls and Short Flyte Golf balls. The Short Flyte Balls can actually be used indoors.
Bottom line-learn how to hit before you attempt to play. Golf will be a lot easier that way.