[neil]

Just curious who first started using dowels for golf instruction. Also do many of you golfers spend a lot of time with dowels to practice and learn versus working with a actual club?

Dave

Absolutly Dave.
From Plane line ,target,angle of approach,wrist positions,flying wedges,ball position - you name it ,Dowels will help.
The biggest difference they made to me were understanding the correct left and right hand wrist /hand positions -and how the hand alignments translate to clubshaft alignments.
Sorry for the long answer, it should just have been YES