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If you truly want to become a decent/good golfer (say, able to someday break 80, which would put you in the top 5% of golfers), I will say this:
You have almost no chance of getting even decent without taking lessons. It's almost impossible (and by almost impossible, I mean 99.999% impossible). You can't see your swing, so you don't know what is going on with it. You can go to the range for 3 hours, but like 99% of the people there, you'll just be repeating a really crappy swing over and over again, which doesn't go any good and in fact does harm.
For lessons, if you want to get good, you need private lessons. A coach really can't focus on your swing when you are one of 5 people he is simultaneously looking at.
That being said, the cost of lessons (and the costs of range balls, practice rounds, etc.) will quickly make the cost of your clubs fairly insignificant.
So if you are committed, you have to be ready to not worry too much about saving a few hundred on your clubs. The costs of your clubs will be the least of your expenses.
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