UPDATE 5/30:
When I received a private message from Gil saying "100% done with you" I thought that would be the last of our encounters with him, but then I see a comment he wrote on my previous review that not only is 100% false but also degrading. The sentence he wrote "there is a reason maybe playing golf for someone else besides yourself your fiancee... Is not the way to approach the game you must do it for yourself.... ". How unprofessional and rude to assume that I'm playing golf FOR my fiancé and not to play with him? Can I want to get better at a sport so that we can play together? Apparently not according to Gil.

Also, I know for a fact he has issued more than one refund in 10 years as he called to issue one immediately for my fiancé's mom when HE made a scheduling error & called her to yell at her. And this was recent (January). So that statement was false.

As far as my "bad attitude", that is completely not true. Did I want to yell at him and give him attitude for becoming agitated with me because he told me to just go in the corner and hit the bag for a while because I couldn't keep my wrist straight? Absolutely. But did I? No, of course not. I would never do that with my fiancé there who enjoyed his first lesson and planned to go back. And on top of that I'd like to note... I rarely write a bad or negative review (look at my page if you don't believe me). So to be this heated in a review is not something I like to do & hopefully will save some beginners (or anyone) from pursuing a golf lesson with Gil. He has some personality issues he needs to work out first.

Lastly, in regards to the comment about our 'difficult' schedule and inability to communicate, he has it wrong on two accounts 1) I didn't schedule with him because he was not responsive to me, so my fiancé had to do all of the scheduling and 2) He is the one who needs to work on his communication and organization. We purchased these lessons assuming we would be able to use them on Friday, Saturday or Sunday as the Groupon did not mention date restrictions, we figured this would not be a problem. We also knew we would be busy for a few months after the purchase, but the Groupon had a 6-month expiration timeframe so again we figured that if the deal was valid for 6 months lessons did not have to be scheduled right away. Apparently that's unacceptable to him.

At our initial contact and introduction we gave Gil our schedule, my fiancé happened to be able to attend an open time slot the next day so he went to the lesson. He was told we would be scheduling everything else at that time. After the lesson, they had one back and forth through texts, everything was scheduled out over a 6-week period. Then, as our first lesson date approached, my fiancé texted Gil for confirmation of the scheduled time, it turned out we were not on his calendar. So we had to pick a new date. Due to our conflicting schedules the next lesson was booked out 5 weeks from our discussion and the balance of the lessons were all within a month of the first lessons date. Then 3 weeks later we get a message from Gil asking us to confirm our lesson the next day- which wasn't a date we had agreed upon previously. We let him know we could not attend at that time, he mentioned he had us down for that day and then called to follow up. I am not sure how/why he had us booked that date but it was never one we had previously discussed. The next time we had contact from Gil it was the day before the lesson that lead to this review- the lesson he ended half way early to call Groupon because "this just wasn't going to work" and that I am "Unteachable" which, by the way, is a great thing to hear at your first ever lesson for anything. The best part of all of this comes a few weeks later, after he did not follow through on the refund- he contacts my fiancé and not only does he ask him to confirm our lesson for the next week he tries to reschedule it to another date. So this would be the 3rd time we had a lesson cancelled/rescheduled due to HIS scheduling issues yet I am the one who has an inability to communicate? We were always flexible in these cases, which based on a few other reviews we have read, is not something he is willing to be for clients.