Golf Instruction Lesson

A golf instruction lesson is the key to breaking bad habits.  Brief Background
My parents got me onto the golf course at age 8 and I’ve now played the game for over 50 years. My career has been in business and I’ve lived the last 30+ years in Colorado Springs.

Up until 1993, I’d had some lessons and read a number of instructional books as well as instructional articles in Golf Digest and Golf Magazine. I’d been to 15 or 20 tour events and often sat in the bleachers at the practice field watching, intently, the pros warm up. I’d participated in a few corporate outings and played some holes with Hale Irwin, Mark McNulty, Mark O’Meara, Bill Rogers and the one and only Al Besselink. At that close range, I’d studied their swings for everything I could spot.

My handicap had been in the range of 8-12 for as long as I could remember. With the research and practice I’d put in, I should have improved, but I didn’t. I’d concluded I did not understand how a golf swing worked. I’d come to believe that some fundamentals had to exist that had completely escaped me.

On September 1, 1993, having just closed a failed business, I drove to Denver for a lesson with Winston Howe, Jr., a teaching pro with a strong reputation. A few putts had dropped for me in previous weeks and my index had lowered to 7.6. Win acknowledged the respectability of that number, but I quickly said to him that I was there because I strongly believed that I did not understand how a golf swing worked. I told him I’d read the books and watched the pros, but that I suspected I probably didn’t understand even the most fundamental parts of a good golf swing.

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