Getting your money’s worth from a golf lesson
Choose the coach before the swing change, state the goal as a score, book a block, and take the playing lesson.
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Getting started
Where to start when you have never held a club: green fees, first lessons, the gear you actually need, and how to get a GA handicap. No jargon, and no assumptions.
Grip and set-up: the fixes that cost nothing
Two knuckles, hips back, clubface aimed before the body. Plus the grips that go slick in an Australian summer.
Membership or pay and play: run the numbers first
Count the rounds you really played, add the levies and joining fees, and the answer appears in ten minutes.
Playing as a visitor: access, heat and etiquette
Access, GolfLink handicap, reciprocal rights and heat. One call to the pro shop settles most of it.
Junior golf: MyGolf, the heat, and what keeps a child playing
Buy by height and buy used, start on the putting green, use MyGolf clinics, and treat the heat as the real risk.
How to start playing golf in Australia: clubs, handicaps and public courses
Four million adults now play, and 1.8 million of them without a club. Here is how to get a handicap, where to play and…