Comments on: Why Do Golfers Here Ask for Golf Tips?

By: KansasCity_babe92

KansasCity_babe92 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:13:50 +0000

I agree with you. In probably 90% of my answers in the golf section I say… go get a lesson from a pro. We don’t know there swing — they could be describing it wrong.. we could be telling them the wrong thing. Its too hard to give someone tips over the internet when 1/2 the time, they don’t understand what you are telling them to do. So many people just ask a buddy for some tips instead of going and asking someone who does that for a living and making their golf game better. Like my friend had me over, showed me her swing and asked me what she should do to improve it. She thinks I should know because I have two cousins who are PGA Pros and an uncle on Tour. I just wrote down my cousins phone number and told her to call him. It bugs me so much that people try to improve there game by just asking other golfers. Good Question!
- I was reading another answer and recipes are different than fixing a golf swing.

By: Randy C

Randy C — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:24:53 +0000

Key word “pay”

By: Vegas Matt

Vegas Matt — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:21:13 +0000

First off, people in generally want quick fixes. And anyone asking questions on here is either just started looking for advice or is pretty lazy. Type “golf tips” into google and 1000 sites will come up that are better to look for advice on that this one. Plus they just don’t want to hear “take lessons and in 3 months you’ll get better.” If it doesn’t work in the first 10 minutes they try, it’s not worth the effort.

Secondly, take into account what kind of people are looking on here in general. Half the questions about equipment are “are these clubs any good?” and they’ll post a $150 set of clubs, or they’ll say “what’s a good brand of clubs for cheap?” These are not people with any desire to spend ANY money on golf, let alone hire a PGA pro to teach them to play correctly.

By: jordan n

jordan n — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:30:31 +0000

because people **** and want to find a free easy way to playing good golf, hey people guess what, GOLF IS NOT MEANT TO BE EASY!!!!, thats what is so great about it

By: brenda st

brenda st — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:15:21 +0000

i am a college coach and we have pro help every year yet i got an answer that fixed my tee shots from you

By: ak_az_vm

ak_az_vm — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:53:20 +0000

I’m guessing that many of the golfers that ask questions are also taking (or have taken) golf lessons. It doesn’t hurt to ask questions and there are many sites with videos and tips that can help – along with taking lessons. This golf school has video, animation and other types of golf tips, yet they still have students enrolled for lessons at their campuses.

By: IceCube

IceCube — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:42:09 +0000

I agree with you, especially the fade cure questions. They are so general that the answers will not help a bit. Nevertheless, I found some really good question on swing like whether amatuers should use their wrists like pro in their swings.
Some of the swing questions are really interesting though.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:34 +0000

I will go along with Mzer and Janfwa answers. Here is a question to you, fatfella1. Which of the two would you pay for, 1) a tip or 2) a golf lesson. thanks…