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.

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.Shows you how to find the perfect channel for a more powerful and consistent swingShares McLean's secrets from more than twenty years as a top instructor to the greatest prosFeatures 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 slotWritten 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"

This book helps you get out of a golfing rut, get locked in to your slot, and find the sweet spot in your game.

Golf Digest's Book of Drills, authored by the creator of the McLean teaching system and coauthored by former Golf Digest Senior Editor Larry Dennis, gives the avid player an unparalleled encyclopedia of dynamic, improvement-generating drills. There is no better way to make true improvements in your game than by getting down to the fundamentals and getting them right.

Think: Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut and Franz Kafka getting together to write Chick Lit. In this brilliant romantic comedy and horror satire, a girl who believes she has psychic abilities decides to bring her recently killed boyfriend back from the dead - with funny and surprising results. It's got the horror satire of Palahniuk, the social comment of Vonnegut and surreal elements from Kafka. And all of that comes wrapped up in a Thelma and Louise road-movie journey of discovery and revelation that charts the developing relationship between spooky self styled barista Aurora and her boss, Portia, who owns the Psychic Deli. If "true love never dies" then magic is surely in the air when love and the occult collide. The love story of Aurora and Jimmy T cleverly reflects back on ancient faiths, magic spells and nature worship, but brings these practices up to date using modern cults like Eco Warriors, Celebrity, Terrorism and the surprisingly casual acceptance of Psychic Ability. Cleverly woven around the perceptions of old and new is the human question - can Aurora, the new barista with the beaded dreads, really speak with the dead - or is she a woman on the on the verge of insanity? Portia, who runs the Psychic Deli's fake seances and Tarot nights, believes her new assistant has lost her mind. And she should know. Portia had her own personal reasons to pray for reincarnation, but gave up all hope of that a long time ago. Now, if anyone needs life support it's her. When they set up The Psychic Deli Detective Agency, Portia sees it as another psychic scam and hopes to profit from Auroa's psychic abilities. But London's east end becomes a B movie horror playground as the duo race against the dramatic Ramana Queen Of Evil to find a hidden spellbook. Guided by her dog-trapped boyfriend, it's an epic fight between Good and Evil that Aurora has to win. But is it really worth the sacrifice? Life After Death may be a big question for a comedy. More common is to discuss Love or Magic. Here, love and sanity part company as the reader is invited to explore what we once believed in and what we have collectively become. The clever twist in the tail that pulls it all together makes this a unique, quirky and not at all soppy romance for teenagers and adults that laughs in the face of Death. Think: You are ready for How To Bring A Boyfriend Back From The Dead?

Top golfing instructor Jim McLean uses rare film footage of Ben Hogan to break down the greatest swing of all time

Golf legend Ben Hogan had the perfect golf swing, but how exactly it worked has long been a mystery--until now. Using footage from three never-before analyzed films of Hogan at his very best, Jim McLean analyzes the crucial motions of Hogan's entire golf swing and shows you how to integrate his mechanics into your own game. You'll study Hogan's blend of club head, club shaft, hands, ankles, knees, hops, shoulders, and head motion--a symphony of movements with an ideal sequential development of power. It's as close as you can get to teeing it up with Hogan yourself.Uses more than one hundred stills from three rare films to analyze every key detail of Hogan's perfect swing before the car accident that changed his play, something no book on Hogan has ever doneReveals the fifteen secrets of Hogan's swing, covering important topics such as the grip, the waggle, the left hip action, lateral motion, rotation and turning movements, head position, and moreDraws extensively on the knowledge of Hogan's friends and competitors, many of them golfing greats themselvesWritten by one of Golf Digest's top five teachers, a pioneer in video analysis who also saw Hogan play first hand

There have been many books on Hogan's swing, but never one, including his own, that illustrates his swing at its most perfect, and never one that shows its mechanics so clearly and completely.

For years Richard Lederer has entertained fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty patter. Now Lederer and Richard Dowis take readers on another journey through our most "wiggy" of languages. How many times have we all heard the word "viable" used in company meetings? The authors show us how "viable" was at one time extracted from medical books, where it is actually defined as "capable of living," and placed into our consumer marketplace. Then there is confusion between "lay" and "lie," which the authors clear up once and for all. These and dozens fo delightful examples make this book pure pleasure for language buffs, writers, and teachers.

Elevate your golf game with the innovative, high-impact drills the pros use, from renowned instructor Jim McLean.
To golfers of all proficiency levels, skills and drills go hand in hand. Jim McLean is one of the greatest living teachers of the game and in "Golf Digest's Ultimate Drill Book "he includes 120 precision golf exercises to address a wide array of concerns. From tee shots to the short game, readers can customize practice sessions depending on their unique trouble spots.
Revealing his time-tested tactics for overcoming pitfalls, golf guru Jim McLean revolutionizes the learning process with strategies for every aspect of the game. Golfers will learn how to attain a perfect golf posture, add distance to one's drive, shoot well from tough lies, pitch like a pro, troubleshoot putts, maintain mental focus, and much more.