Be wary of free golf tips. I cannot stress this warning enough to new players. I was like them once. I was new to the game, trying to soak up as must knowledge as possible, and I didn’t have a lot of disposable income. In-person instruction was out of the question, and I relied mostly on free golf tips online.

The problem with that is that there’s a great deal of misinformation online. In many cases, the tips are technically correct, but they might be less useful out of context or they might require some individual tailoring. What I ended up doing was adding some improper techniques to my swing that became bad habits. As my game became more refined, those bad habits were the hardest flaw to overcome because I had worked so hard at implementing them.