No previous golf experience...want to learn

[ckboddic]

I played golf for the first time in my life today after being around for more than 20 years. I enjoyed it and would like to improve. What should I do? Take lessons? Read books? A combination of both? I looked into it and my town only has one teacher...an old retiree...don't know much else about him. It seems to me that taking lessons would be a good route.