instruction. Before even striking your first shot, have a lesson from a professional teacher. Learn how to grip the club correctly. Learn how to address or stand to the ball properly with the correct posture. Learn weight transfer from backswing to follow through. Learn how to hit down on the ball with an iron and take a divot. Golf instruction is like a dripping tap. Learn bits at a time. Dont have too many lessons to soon; it can be confusing taking in too much information. One lesson a week for a month with practice in between is enough. Give your hands and body muscles time to get used to hitting shots. If you feel uncomfortable or just cant understand what you are trying to achieve, ask the coach at the next lesson. In any lesson you are only going to absorb about 20% of what you have been taught. But you are learning are good habits that will last a life time. With correct coaching even slow starters will quickly develop. Often golfers who start playingTitleist Scotty Cameron Buttonback Putter
without any professional instruction find that after about 12 18 months their game becomes worse, they seem to have stagnated. Then when starting a course of proper instruction find it even more difficult to improve at first because of all the bad habits they have to undo.
For your first few weeks of playing golf, practice with lofted irons only. Start with a no 9 iron. It has plenty of face loft and a fairly short shaft.
It has plenty of face loft and a fairly short shaft. The loft allows the ball when struck on the downswing to rise into the air very quickly and carry about 100 metres in length. So there is not the urge to try and hit the ball too hard, as is often the case when using a more powerful Titleist Scotty Cameron Buttonback Putter
in search for distance. Then the golfer tries to hit the ball a long way by swinging too fast, usually with disastrous results. The shorter club allows a more compact swing making the player feel much more comfortable and can then concentrate on learning rhythm and timing , essential factors in striking the ball correctly.