What clubs should a beginner in golf start to learn with. The woods or the irons.?
Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at
3:17 pm
Which are more effective in a round of golf, woods or irons?
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To start with, you should start with the short iron PW and moving progressively to longer ones, not exceeding 6 iron. Leave the long irons alone for now. For a couple of weeks, once you develop relatively consistent, smooth and rythmic swing, you’re ready to swing the longer irons and the woods.
Most mistakes made by beginners trying to learn golf, is that they take out the driver, and try to swing for the cheap seats, this will have long term negative effects to your golf game. First it may give you injury, second, you will train your body to make bad compensations, like manipulating your wrists, take away, scooping, etc. It took me a lot of effort to get out o f my bad habits that I picked up simply by swinging without proper instructions.
And take lessons.
Second answer, is irons. Having a good iron play + short game around the greens most of the time allows you to save par. 20 yards difference of your tee shot does not matter as much as 20 yards difference around the green. Around the green 20 yards can mean you’re in the bunker, or water.