No more waiting for the next issue of Golf Digest or that golf instruction DVD you ‘might’ get for Christmas to get your fix of golf tips. Now you can jump online whenever you want and find great golf instructional videos from some of the best teachers in the game.
Here are a few options for online instruction videos:
Major Golf Sites
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The Good: excellent range of lessons and good search function (can search by lesson type, skill level and instructor). Videos feature some of the best golf instructors in the US. You don’t need to sign-up or pay anything - The Bad: videos are a little slow to load. When they do load, you need to sit through the Golf Channel advertisement before you get to the instruction. I could only take about 3 videos before I had to leave……you can only be told that the Golf Channel has “live coverage before and after every PGA Tour event” so many times
The Good: maybe not as much video content here as other sites, but good quality and really well laid out. Each lesson has a transcript and details about the instructor- The Bad: it’s not free. You only get about 20 seconds of video footage before being asked to sign-in or subscribe. Subscription costs US$49.95 per year, which includes access to score tracking tool, 3D course flyovers. May just be worth the money – at least worth the 14 day trial
The Good: free and includes lessons and articles….from Golf Magazine’s Top 100 teachers. There’s a good range of lessons for each part of the game, eg fixing slice/hook, putting, etc- The Bad: not too much wrong with this site, although it’s not actually that easy to find the lessons area on the site
Another Option……YouTube
YouTube has an enormous selection of instructional videos, maybe too many as it can be difficult to find the ones that are relevant for you.
A few tips for using YouTube to find golf video lessons:
- limit your search to recognized names, eg Hank Haney, David Leadbetter, etc. There a plenty of good videos to choose from if you look for well known teachers (check out Golf Digest’s Top 50 Teachers)
- check the number of views for the video…..more views ‘generally’ means better quality (but not always!)
- set-up an account with YouTube so you can save your favorite videos. One of the limitations of the sites featured above is that you can’t save your favorite videos. You can with YouTube (sign-up here)
There are many other websites that provide online video tips, some of them now charging a monthly or annual fee. Given the availability of free content I’d be reluctant to pay, unless your getting a comprehensive video lesson package or the videos are unique in some way.
Let me know if you’ve found some other good quality sources of video tips.
