subject: The Benefits Of Having Professional Coaching For Both Novice And Experienced Golfers [print this page] No matter whether you are just a beginner at the game of golf or have been playing for a number of years, there is always something new to learn or some skill for you to perfect and there is no doubt that the easiest way to do that is with professional coaching.
However, the problem is that professional coaching can be very expensive.
At the top end of the scale you might think about attending a golf school for an intensive course and immersing yourself for a full seven days in learning or improving one or two specific facets of your game. The cost will vary widely depending upon the school you choose and things like the quality of its instructors and the range of training facilities provided by the school. However, in all cases the cost will probably be high and you can certainly think about paying $1,000 to $2,000 or more for a course of this nature.
The next option you might consider is individual coaching with a local golf professional lasting perhaps one or two hours every day, or possibly only twice or three times a week. This option is certainly one which is well worth considering as an alternative to attending a golf school, but it is still going to be quite expensive, particularly if you discover that you need to continue your regular lessons for any length of time.
So how about a cheaper alternative?
An increasingly popular choice today is to learn the game by watching DVDs in the comfort of your own home and, before you laugh at this method, you might wish to consider the range of DVDs currently being made by a lot of very respected professional golf instructors and the huge number of golfers who are opting for this particular type of tuition.
Not only do DVDs permit the golf professional to come into your home and take you through all aspects of the game you can imagine in great detail and provide you with step by step exercises to follow yourself to master everything from how to improve your driving to how to hit the perfect draw shot, but the true beauty of DVD instruction is that it lets you learn at your own pace and replay every lesson to your heart's content and pick up every detail.
And maybe best of all is the fact that your own personal library of instructional golf DVDs will not cost you an arm and a leg.
Now, I do have to say that, if you can afford it, going to a golf school or personal one to one instruction with a local golf professional will almost certainly produce quicker and better results than learning from a series of DVDs. However, instructional DVDs these days do come in a very close second and you certainly cannot beat them as far as cost is concerned.
