Swing analysis- too costly or worth the price?

Hi all,

I've recently picked up and started this wonderful game once again. I've been to the driving range a few times and played a couple of rounds of golf recently. I'm looking to completely re-address my game and want to make sure I (re)start off on the right foot.

As a result I'm looking for golf memberships, tuition and any kind of training that will help me. I know of the Central London Golf Centre which do 10 pro lessons for �99 (not including range balls), but I've also looked into forking out the big money for 10 lessons with video analysis through either N1 or Swing Academy- Swing Academy is just shy of �500 for in effect 11 lessons - one starter and 10 adjusting lessons.

I've not looked into it in too much detail but has anyone else got experience or an opinion on this. Is it worth it? Would you advise it? and if you've done the more expensive options did it help more then any standard pro lessons?

Thanks for any replies

Hi Richard, they are hard to find now but if you can get a Casio Exlim EX-FH100 camera they are great for golf swing analysis. They have the option to capture video at 120 fps (and above) which is great for analysis. It's amazing how much you do yourself to improve your swing when you can see what are doing in slow motion.

If you have an iphone or android phone there are plenty of golf swing analysis apps you can get for just a few pounds. My husband uses a couple of iphone apps to record and analyse his swing and it helps him hugely. The number of hours I have to spend standing behind him on the practice range..... I notice that our Pros are now all using ipads to record people's swings in lessons now. a year ago they all had expensive cameras and software.