Just disregard everything that has been posted on this thread and go find a golf instructor and listen to whatever he or she tells you to do.

Ummm, most of the advice was to go to an instructor.

Learn to accept Bogie as a good score.

if you Bogie every other hole and double bogey the rest...you just broke 100!

Aggie95 said:

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also consider learning the game "backwards". Spend A LOT of time on and around the putting green. Get your putting stroke down and learn how to chip the ball. Get comfortable scoring from 50 yards and in. If you can get the feel for chipping the ball...lengthening the swing MAY come easier. Plus, even a "worm burner" from the tee or fairway will travel a 100 yards or so, eventually getting you to that 50 yard area mentioned above.

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This is the advice I was given when I started and I respectfully think it is bad advice.

It doesn't matter if you can chip and putt well if every drive is 100 yds out to the right and first chip is your 6th shot on a par 4.

Agree 100%. The analytics also show its bad advice. PGA pros only make 50% of their putts from 8 feet. You aren't going to become some sort of magician that erases multiple strokes every hole with a putter.

A new player has to get themselves viable off the tee so that most holes they have some semblance of an approach shot set up, and then get those approaches at least around the green. That's how a newbie goes from 120+ to 90. Not by draining a few putts or making a a few more good chips that turns 8 into 7 or 7 into 6. The short game becomes more useful once you are that guy.

True. Tee ball is huge. Spend a large percentage of your time working this part of the game out. Drive for show and putt for dough is a fallacy… if you drive it like crap, you ain't puttin' for ****.

While you're at it, work on pitching/chipping and that will relate to the irons. Getting it on the green in 1 pitch/chip gets the score down pretty quickly. Personally, I like chipping and pitching because I just like seeing the ball go in the hole.