One day, me and my golfing partner decided to try out golf to have some change from our routine software engineering jobs. It's almost one year now (Started taking lessons in Feb 2010) and looking back, we think it was a very good decision. It's not because we are experts now or feel good while dominating other peer golfers during our round of golf, we are far from it. What we enjoy is the challenge and little positive feedback from incremental improvements that we see in our game. This is what has kept us going, so far. More on this later
Back to when we started learning, we found an instructor, recommended from another colleague and we started our lessons at our nearby San Jose Municipal golf course. We had no clue or prior information from any golfer friends about a good way to learn golf, like what kind of lessons to take, how long should the training last, whether to take it from a certified pga instructor or not, etc. We could have asked a few friends to be better placed, but we just wanted to get into it. It worked for us, sometimes too much information in the beginning is just a hindrance from getting started and knowing too much about the landscape can turn you away from it or could affect your instinctive learning curve. So get some idea and go for it, if it helps, tell yourself - I am learning something new and it's good for my brain cells.
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