The best way to learn golf is one-on-one lessons with a teaching pro you get on well with, the author says. There are few—if any—sports where the role of lessons looms so large as in golf. Even Tiger Woods is known to take them. I have taken lessons for about three-quarters of a century, although I admit that I haven’t taken one in about five years. But that is because at 91 (almost 92), I figure I’m beyond help.

---