Guys you are both right of course.
Actually I was only making a (I thought ) light hearted observation about how we over complicate things sometimes and how sometimes simply walking up and hitting the ball might be better for our peace of mind.

But yes, as per Greg's site ,we have to make a decision on what we do with our golf (sorry I hadn't read that page properly until today), I've decided I want to get better so Option 2 is out for now.

The problem is that I've had some poor lessons in the past (or rather lessons which weren't right for me) so for the moment I'm looking at opinions on here which as S4P says has its own issues.

In fact I think I've only taken one piece of actual swing advice as such; mostly I'm working on creating a consistent pre shot routine, setting up correctly every time rather than at random, and incorporating a pre-swing relaxing movement (for me more of a mini takeaway than a waggle).