The same here for me. I love playing someone who has just watched a golf video or maybe the fast talking person on the golf channel. I do like to read articles about golfers in golf digest, not tips on how to play. I am self taught and I doubt at my age a golf lesson would help me. I just have to work out my bad things myself. I have been playing 42 years so I have lots of bad things I picked up
One is the shanks. I had rather not talk about that one.
I can tell a quick story on a shank. We had a local car dealer giving away a new car for a hole in one years ago. The car was parked to the right of the tee. The owner was not a golfer and I mentioned to him that the car was not parked in a good spot. He just laughed. Well I pulled out my 6 iron ( I think the hole was like 155) I cold shanked it and the ball hit the wheel on the car. He then moved it like I had told him. For some reason he did not think it was funny.