The Eight-Step Swing, 3rd Edition

The Eight-Step Swing, 3rd Edition
Author: Jim McLean
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009-04-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0061672823

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

The Eight-step Swing
Author: Jim McLean
Publisher: William Morrow
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1994
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

In this indispensable instructional manual, PGA master coach Jim McLean presents the innovative swing method that has helped championship winners like Tom Kite and Brad Faxon elevate their game.

Golf Digest's Book of Drills

Golf Digest's Book of Drills
Author: Jim Mclean
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1990-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0671725564

This book gives the avid player an unparalleled encyclopedia of dynamic, improvement-generating drills.

The Eight Step Swing

The Eight Step Swing
Author: Jim McLean
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2001-03-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0060958006

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.

Swing Like a Pro

Swing Like a Pro
Author: Ralph Mann
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1998-12-29
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 076790236X

A leading biomechanics expert and a premier golf instructor share the secrets of the perfect swing using a breakthrough learning tool—for novice and advanced golfers alike. For seventeen years, CompuSport International’s biomechanics expert Dr. Ralph Mann devoted himself to studying the swings of more than 100 PGA and LPGA Tour players to uncover the keys to a better game and a lower handicap. The results: the computer-generated composite Pro, which embodies the mechanical elements of the holy grail of the golf swing—efficient, effective, and now achievable. Illustrated with 175 animated 3-D stills of the Pro that pinpoint the exact motions of a body executing the perfect swing, Swing Like a Pro provides accurate, consistent information about how to play the game properly, breaking down the exact steps you can take to develop and refine your skills at performing every aspect of the shot. Mann teams up with renowned golf instructor Fred Griffin to examine and explain • Setup, including how to grip and align the club properly while finding the perfect balance for your body • The seven characteristics of a great backswing, with drills for improvement • How to achieve distance with accuracy through your downswing • How to put all these elements together with both timing and tempo • And much more! With its unique cutting-edge, scientific approach, and the expertise of its authors, Swing Like a Pro promises to be the best golf Pro you ever consulted to help you improve your swing and shave strokes off your handicap—and proves that there is such a thing as a perfect swing.

Social Dance

Social Dance
Author: Judy Patterson Wright
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780736045056

A step-by-step guide to learning five different social dances including the swing, cha-cha, fox-trot, waltz, and polka, with illustrations that show proper technique, suggestions for detecting and correcting errors, practice drills, and checklists for evaluating progress; includes a music CD.

Build Your Swing

Build Your Swing
Author: Jim McLean
Publisher: Radius Book Group+ORM
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1635769906

In this expert guide, the renowned PGA Master Instructor shares the secrets to helping all players—from beginners to pros—perfect their swing. In Build Your Swing, Jim McLean distills the essence of his fabulously successful method of golf instruction by breaking down the various parts of the golf swing. He draws on an unparalleled wealth of golfing knowledge and experience, grown out of decades of teaching all levels of players as a PGA Master Instructor—and as the founder of the #1-ranked Jim McLean Golf Schools. This illustrated, practical guide is a must-read for golf students and instructors who are serious about improving their game.

Golf Anatomy-2nd Edition

Golf Anatomy-2nd Edition
Author: Davies, Craig
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492548421

With 156 detailed, full-color anatomical illustrations, Golf Anatomy, Second Edition, depicts 72 exercises proven to improve strength, power, and range of motion. Golfers will add distance to drives, consistency to the short game, and accuracy to putts.

How to Master a Great Golf Swing

How to Master a Great Golf Swing
Author: Maxine Van Evera Lupo
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2006-04-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1589793501

This comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the golf swing details fifteen fundamentals that every golfer must master to produce a smooth, repeatable, error-free swing.