You’re no idiot, of course. You know golf can be infuriating one minute and exhilarating the next. But when it comes to keeping your cool on the course during your short game, you feel like you’re pitching with a pick-ax and putting with pick-up sticks.
Don’t clobber your clubs just yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Improving Your Short Game shows you how to lower your score—and your blood pressure—by getting into the swing of getting on the green. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get:
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<li>The preliminaries for improvement in pitching, chipping, and putting.</li>
<li>The lowdown on building up a solid, shot-making game.</li>
<li>Tips, techniques, and drills for taking your short game to the next level.</li>
<li>Troubleshooting to triumph over hazards, traps, and awkward lies.</li>
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your Short Game

Sports & Outdoors

McLean, Jim

Andrisani, John

Golf

Alpha Books

Jim McLean has worked closely with such PGA pros as Tom Kite, Hal Sutton, Peter Jacobson, Curtis Strange and Brad Faxon, and helped improve their game with his personal method. This book is the culmination of his 30-year golf career, offering readers the opportunity to learn from McLean what these exceptional pros have already put to use. This guide breaks down the swing into eight crucial stages, with each chapter representing a step, and then helps the reader unite the steps into one fluid motion. Each chapter/swing step is capped by a series of check-points for self-evaluation on the practice tell and on the course. The final chapters oncern the mental game, set-up and preparation. Jim McLean is the author of "Golf Digest's Book of Drills".

The Eight-Step Swing: A Revolutionary Golf Technique by a Pro Coach

Harpercollins

A PGA coach and a renowned sports psychologist team up to offer golfers 100 unique physical and mental techniques to improve their putting in a special package designed to slip into the golfer's pocket or bag.

The Putter's Pocket Companion

William Morrow

Written by a respected PGA coach with 20 years of experience, this indispensable instruction manual shows how any player can learn the revolutionary swing method that helped Tom Kite become a top tournament winner.

Eight Step Swing, The

HarperPB

The updated Eight-Step Swing has nine new chapters, including specific instruction for women and junior golfers, advice on preparation and preshot routine, Jim McLean's fundamentals of golf, and much more.
In this indispensable instructional manual, PGA master coach Jim McLean presents the innovative swing system that has helped championship winners like Tom Kite, Brad Faxon, and Liselotte Neumann elevate their game. With characteristic clarity and expertise, McLean breaks down the swing action into the eight key checkpoint positions that will build a grooved, repeatable, and mechanically sound swing. Helpful practice tips and mental exercises supplemented with beautiful, technically accurate photographs and illustrations keep you on track. McLean also presents brilliant strategies and advice for the long game, the short game, the mental game, and overall game management to ensure that you will boost your performance to the next level no matter how long you've been playing.

The Eight Step Swing: The Top Selling Swing System that has Revolutionized the Teaching Industry

William Morrow Paperbacks

This fully updated edition of the classic Eight-Step Swing reveals the best advice from the top golf school in America, offering a detailed explanation of the true fundamentals of the golf swing. PGA Master Instructor Jim McLean, who has coached many of the game's greatest professionals, has incorporated his latest research into the art and science of the golf swing, breaking it down into a new building block approach. In this indispensable instructional manual, McLean presents the innovative swing system that has helped championship winners like Tom Kite, Alexis Thompson, Cristie Kerr, and Bernhard Langer elevate their game. With characteristic clarity and expertise, McLean breaks down the swing action into the eight key checkpoint positions that will build a grooved, repeatable, and mechanically sound swing. Helpful practice tips, drills, and mental exercises supplemented with technically accurate photographs and more than 50 new illustrations keep you on track. McLean also presents brilliant strategies and advice for the long game, the short game, the mental game, and overall game management to boost your performance to the next level no matter how long you've been playing.

The Eight-Step Swing, 3rd Edition

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

It Books

Featuring the same winning format as The Putter's Pocket Companion, which sold more than 25,000 copies, this unique book offers 100 quick tips for the all-important short game.

The Wedge-Game Pocket Companion

There's nothing quite like the feel of winding up, whacking that little white ball and watching it fly down the fairway. The solid, dead-on hit is one of the great joys of golf, and it is every player's ambition to be able to send the ball farther, with more consistency and control, than his or her opponents.  Compiled by two of golf's leading experts, The Power Game Pocket Companion features 100 quick reference tips (one to a page) to help golfers let the swing rip a la John Daly. Illustrated with numerous photographs, these lessons are easy to learn, and thanks to the book's portable format, readers can access them out on the course, where it really counts.

The Power-Game Pocket Companion (Pocket Golf Books , No 4)

Harper Paperbacks

Get the benefits of Jim McLean's four golf school curriculums--the Full-Swing School, the Short-Game School, the Management School, and the Mental School--without the four-figure cost. Jim McLean is known as golf's complete teacher, and his golf schools--at The Doral Resort in Miami; PGA West in Palm Springs; Grand Traverse in Michigan; Legend Trail Golf Club in Scotsdale; Royal Links in Las Vegas; Mariner's Point in San Francisco; and Deer Creek in Toronto--have been rated the best in the country by U.S. News &amp; World Report. Blending McLean's expert advice with over two hundred photographs detailing the syllabus of his exceptionally popular teaching facilities, Golf School is the must-have instructional for the tens of thousands of McLean's graduates and an irresistible and affordable golf bible for all those who dream of one day breaking eighty. Golf School is for every level of play. High handicappers and beginners can all benefit from McLean's detailed study of the fundamentals of golf--grip, stance, posture, aim, and alignment. Low handicappers will be drawn to the author's advice on the mental game, course management, and how to become a "player"--someone capable of firing rounds in the sixties. In addition to the basics and the more advanced elements of the game, McLean shares his secrets for attaining consistency on the links with pre- and post-round practice tips and homework assignments designed to complete between rounds. No other golf instructor has brought the golf school experience to the written page. For the first time, golfers will be able to attend a golf school tuition-free with one of the greatest living teachers from the comfort of their own backyards.

The Golf School: The tuition free Tee-To-Green curriculum from golf's finest High End Academy

DOUBLEDAY

Top golfing instructor Jim McLean shares the secret to a better swing and a better game
It's what every great golfer knows and every struggling player wants to know: how to find ""the slot,"" the perfect channel through which the shaft and club head can meet the ball on the downswing for a more powerful, accurate, and consistent swing.
Great ball-strikers like Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, and Jack Nicklaus were slot swingers. Today, Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia and Jim Furyk provide dramatic examples. Now leading golf instructor Jim McLean shows you how to find the slot to take your game to the next level. With step-by-step instructions and more than eighty illustrations by leading golf illustrator Phil Franke, The Slot Swing makes it easy.
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<li>Shows you how to find the perfect channel for a more powerful and consistent swing</li>
<li>Shares McLean's secrets from more than twenty years as a top instructor to the greatest pros</li>
<li>Features stunning two-color art by Phil Franke and a full-color foldout showing how the dramatically different swings of Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, Bruce Lietzke and Jim Furyk all end up in the slot</li>
<li>Written by the author of the classic book The 8-Step Swing, named one of the 20th Century's top 15 golf instructionals by Sports Illustrated
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This book helps you get out of a golfing rut, get locked in to your slot, and find the sweet spot in your game.

The Slot Swing: The Proven Way to Hit Consistent and Powerful Shots Like the Pros

Trade Paper Press

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