re: Telling a begginer to “start from the hole and work back” is bad advice

This is a terrible take for a number of reasons but the primary reason is you thinking

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nothing balloons a score like poor tee shots

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isn't bettered by practicing short game.

What all beginners don't understand, if you can learn to rock your shoulders on a bump and run, struck consistently, with an average circumference from the hole you will be a significantly better golfer than one that hits the ball 300 yards (and you don't). This motion translates into the full swing and helps train you to make a better motion vs trying to smash it down the fairway accurately. That motion doesn't lead to better mechanics around the green, its actually quite the opposite.

Your point is not only bad advice but the reason that beginners never get better. They focus on the only part of the game that doesn't make other parts better whereas practicing and perfecting the smallest part of the game makes you significantly better.