The question we all ask when presented with the idea of joining a golf academy is whats the need of joining a golf academy when I get lessons at my local club?

While you may be getting lessons at the local club you go to the club primarily to have a good time and then to improve your game of golf. The lessons are intermittent and few and what can be learnt through intensive courses at one of the many golf academy spread across the country in one week can only be learnt playing at your club over a fairly long time. While golf academies are not all drudgery and there also you spend 50% of the time playing and having a good time the presence of an instructor watching over you all the time improves the game in a much more focused and rapid manner than in a local club.

I dont want to be a pro, should I still consider a golf academy?

Golf academies around the country have been sensitive to the needs of people with various proficiency levels, age groups and aspirations. And while you may not intend to take up golf professionally everyone wants to keep getting better at whatever they do. After a certain point you cant do this on your own and there are things that you fail to understand for instance you may not be consistent with each of your drives and may not be able to fathom the cause of this. In such scenarios when you meet with a roadblock in improvement and are stuck at one place for a fairly long time its best to invest a week or so and get better at the game rather than losing the pleasure of it altogether. You can scout the list of academies and talk to them; most academies have programs for beginners, weekend golfers, and aspiring professionals and are tailor made with their needs in mind.

Eleven questions you should ask the academy before joining them?

1. Before joining any golf academy you should satisfy yourself that you have done the necessary research. Some pointers are given below:

2. Will you be changing my swing to make me improve and if so why modifications cant be made instead of changing whatever I have been doing so far?

3. If there is a swing that will be taught to me is that something which is customized or do you teach that swing to everyone else?

4. Who are going to be my instructors and what would their credentials be?

5. Will there be a single instructor for the entire duration of the course or will the instructors be changing with the change in activity?

6. What will be the class size and student to instructor ratio?

7. Apart from the training is there any social or other external events which are incorporated in my fee and if so is there an option of taking a bare training course?

8. Is the program I am going to attend pre determined or are you going to customize it in any way?

9. After the class is completed is there a way to stay in touch with my instructor or are their any follow up trainings or courses?

10. Will what I learn here stay with me forever or will I forget them a few months after the training?

11. Are the facilities adequate, do you have your own golf course and dedicated training facilities?

Golf Academy for juniors

In case your kids would like to take up golf as a profession or you want them to try it out the academies are the best places to start out. Almost every golf academy has got courses specifically tailored for budding junior golfers.

If you want to improve your game and finding it hard to do it then no matter at what level you are playing right now you should try out a golf academy and if you have done enough research and made the right decision you will come out a better golfer.