Golf Lessons

I am always amazed at how few golfers actually get lessons. I have tons of friends who pay $400 for a new driver but scoff at paying $70 for a one hour lesson. I took 10 golf lessons last year and have already taken one this year. I am not sure how other low handicap golfers do it without lessons. To me they are vital. I am constantly picking up bad habits that my instructor is able to easily fix. The first few lessons I took were not very effective. I decided to change my swing dramatically in order to improve it for the long run.  This meant that initially I got worse. But now that I have made the big changes I am mostly in maintenance mode. When I visit my instructor he is just reinforcing what I have been taught or correcting the bad habits that I mentioned earlier. To give an example, I visited him yesterday and had picked two bad habits. I was suddenly using a very strong grip and lining the ball up too far back in my stance. I had been practicing the past couple of weeks and my swing seemed fine but I just wasn't making good contact with the ball. After correctly my grip and the position of the ball, BAM, I was back on track again. I highly recommend you get lessons if you want to improve your golf game.