First ever Golf Lesson experience

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Lonestar_Ag09
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I went this afternoon for my first lesson with Jim at Windrose. What an awesome experience! I went in with literally ZERO expectations because before recently I had never even considered taking lessons.

The technology that they're able to use and how they use that to explain little items that can change so much was awesome. I'm sure not all coaches do it the same and not all experiences might be as positive but i thought it was awesome.

Non golf game related items: was learning that my clubs had been altered slightly to adjust their lie, learning my shafts were stiff not regular as I suspected. Learning that my shafts were rifle and vibration tuned or whatever it was called...then a history lesson about the company that designed them etc.

Golf Game items learned:
Within a few swing he asked if I get hot spots on my hands specifically on my right thumb...made an adjustment there.

With this it caused the balls to now slice because of how my follow through was happening.

So then we moved the creating better posture which would help my swing be more clean and straight. With this adjustment it allowed for slightly better body/hip rotation.

We then worked through getting my hands extended in the follow through, rotating the wrists and trying to finish higher on my backswing.
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The coolest part in my opinion is that the lesson included a video synopsis that took the tips and built them into a video showing what we went over, how we adjust items as we went and him explaining it...this im sure is standard but it blew me away (im a simple man)

What was extremely surprising to me is the velocity I was producing. According to his computer tech stuff my irons I was around 92-94mph club head speed which surprised the heck out of me.

BEST PART for him and me.....I cant wait to go back and do it again in a week or two
Harry Stone
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Jim was my instructor for most of my adolescence. He is a great guy. He was a Hank Haney protege in his younger years, but has gone away from being technical like most instructors were in the 90s. Glad you enjoyed it!
Fdsa
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Nice! So much fun when you have good direction for your practice. If you're not getting at least a few lessons a year, you're limiting your ability to improve and might be making yourself worse every time you practice. I know a lot of stubborn 10-15 handicaps.
Lonestar_Ag09
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I would imagine a major difference between myself and others is my goal for this is to just become more repeatable and consistent.

Jim said the great majority of folks coming in want more distance, I could personally care less. There's always a club up to get more yards but if I can't hit it consistently then it's just further away to go from where I wanted my ball in the first place.
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