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PRACTICE - The How and Where

What you learn during your golf tuition equates to about half of your improvement. The other half is practice. Without it your rate of improvement will be quite slow. There are four types of places you can practice your golf.
Firstly, you can purchase some plastic golf balls and them at home in your back yard. This is quite an effective way of practice especially in the early learning stages where you will be more concerned with training your muscles to repeat certain actions rather than ball flight.
Secondly, you can go to a golf range. At a golf range you can purchase a bucket of balls and hit them at your leisure from specially designed artificial grass mats. When you hit balls try to avoid the "machine gun method" of hitting balls. i.e. bang, bang, bang. It is a far better idea to hit the balls slowly, making sure you have several swings between hitting each ball. It is far better for you to hit 50 balls 3 times a week than it is to hit 150 balls in one practice session. One of the best aspects of using a golf range is that you don't have to pick up the balls when you have finished.
Thirdly, you can play on a Public golf course and use their practice putting green to improve your putting skills. Finally, if you join a private golf club you can use the practice facilities at that club. However, at most of these clubs you have to use your own practice golf balls and you must share the practice fairway with other golfers. This can be frustrating when picking up your balls at the end of your practice session.