Golf Lessons
There is tremendous value in taking golf lessons from a qualified golf instructor. Learning golf or improving your game is a process and will take time and effort. I do believe that golf is a natural motion, but it is very precise and needs to continually fine tuned. So the value of taking one lesson and only one could be minimal. It might help but if you are going to get better sometimes our initial changes will lead to poorer performances than we are used to. This would lead one to believe that the lesson was not good. I can effectively change a persons golf game in one lesson but to lead to lasting change constant reinforcement is needed to make the changes permanent.
I was talking to a couple of colleagues the other day about this subject. One fellow said he talked to a golf instructor once and he said he charged $150.00 for three lessons or $1000.00 for one. He said if the person thought they could learn everything in one lesson, it would be a miracle and the person should pay for it. The other is a well known golf instructor and if you take a lesson from him there is a mandatory three hour assessment of your game from physical screens to short game analysis for a cost of $295.00. He said he loses some customers however the one he gets are serious about improving their game.
The final note is on the subject of qualified instructor. Just because someone has taken a weekend course or can hit the golf ball far once in awhile or is better than you doesn’t qualify them to be a teacher. I have been teaching for 30 years, studied all the great teachers, read in excess of 1,000 books on human performance and I am still learning about this marvellous game. Do your research on your golf instructor because we are not all the same. I will probably rant about this in future blogs.
