Jim McLean Golf Achievements

• PGA Master Professional (1990)
• Instruction Editor and Senior Advisor, The Golf Channel.
• Has led over 70 national teaching workshops for the PGA Featured speaker at all 5 National PGA Teaching Summits Master Instructor for Golf Magazine, 1990-1997
• Instruction Writer for Golf Illustrated
• The "Eight Step Swing" was ranked by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top instruction books.
• Played at 2 U.S. Open Championships
• Played at the 1972 Masters (made cut)
• College All-American, University of Houston 
• Winner Northwest Open, 3 time winner Pacific Northwest Amateur Pacific Coast Amateur Champion
• Winner of more than 45 Junior and Amateur Titles Winner
• Winner, 1989 National Skins Game Pro-Am Winner
• Winner Metropolitan Pro-Assistant Championship
• 9 Master Instructors who have worked for Jim McLean at Doral have been named to America's "Top 100 Instructors"
  

Professional Experience

• 1975 - 1979 Teaching Professional Westchester CC, 
• 1979 - 1982 Head Professional, Sunningdale CC,   
• 1983 - 1987 Head Professional, Quaker Ridge GC,   
• 1987 - 1988 Director of Golf, Tamarisk CC, Rancho Mirage, CA
• 1988 - 1993 Director of Golf, Sleepy Hollow CC, Scarborough
  

Teaching Credentials/Awards

• 1998 PGA South Florida Section Teacher of the Year
• 1996 PGA South Florida Section Teacher of the Year
• 1994 PGA National Teacher of the Year
• 1986 Metropolitan PGA Teacher of the Year
• 1987 Metropolitan PGA Horton Smith Award
  

Author of Top Selling Instructional Books and Videos

• The X-Factor II (DVD)
• Golf Warm-Ups (DVD)
• Ben Hogan, A Swing for a Lifetime (DVD)
• Complete Idiots Guide to Improving Your Short Game
• Golf School
• The X-Factor Golf Swing
• The X-Factor (Video)
• The Eight Step Swing (Book - revised 2001)
• The Eight Step Swing (Video)
• The Eight Step Swing (DVD)
• Golf Digest Ultimate Book of Drills
• Golf Digest Book of Drills
• 20 Problems/20 Solutions (Video)
• The Putters Pocket Companion
• Wedge Game Pocket Companion
• Swing Thoughts (Video)
• The 10 Fundamentals of Modern Swing (Video)
• Sam Snead, A Swing for a Lifetime (Video)
• Swing Saver (CD-ROM)
• The Final Check (3-Video Tape - Korea)
• Golf Magazine
• Sportware Golf (CD-ROM)