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

The old adage goes something like “that 300 yd drive you hit is worth as many strokes as that 3ft putt you missed”.

While true, I think telling beginners to work mostly on shots around and on the green and not the driver is bad advice, nothing balloons a score like poor tee shots. Nothing will get someone to stop playing golf like not being able to make solid contact with longer clubs.

IMO beginners should spend most of their time learning how to hit driver well and make solid contact with mid-irons. Sure they might suck with wedges and at chipping and putting, but they’ll at least be able to advance the ball and feel like they can play. Once they get that feeling then they should work on score saving things like chipping and putting.

If they work more on chipping and putting than they do getting the ball into play off the tee, they’ll just end up putting/chipping for double bogey all the time, and they’ll be more frustrated miss hitting and shanking shots that they think they should be hitting further.

This probably does not apply to young children who are learning.

I base this advice on no data and this is a 100% anecdotal opinion but I think I’m right