Jim McLean is a Golf Digest teaching professional.
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Backswing Checklist
Jim McLean says that if you can check these things off in your backswing, you're halfway home to hitting a great shot.
Golf Digest Schools
Get Lag in Your Golf Swing Like Sergio
If you want lag in your golf swing, copy Sergio: He gets the clubhead to lag behind the movement of the arms and body in the downs …
Gimme One Thing: How Do I Get Out of Wet Sand?
Firm bunkers require a special technique
Gimme One Thing
Hitting Fairway Woods Off Tight Lies
If you're struggling, here's the one thing you want to do: Play a cut fade.
Escaping the Bunker
Read The Sand To Become A Better Bunker Player
Your ball landed in a greenside bunker. Now you've got to get it on the green and hopefully close to the hole. Before you swing, a …
Flop Shots
This Flop Shot Tests the Boundaries of Trust
Hitting a flop shot over someone else takes a lot of trust. Here are some tips from Jim McLean on how to hit it.
Curing Faults
Don't Let Your Eyes Play Tricks When Reading Greens
Why'd I do that? You study a green carefully, but badly misread a putt.
Curing Faults | Slice-Proof Tee Balls
How To Handle Wind Going Hard Right
When slicers try to swing to the left, they cut across the ball, making it all the harder to square the face. The result is even w …
Swing Analysis
The Remarkable Swing Similarities Between Swedes Henrik Stenson & Annika Sorenstam
Golf Digest Top 50 teacher Jim McLean notes the shared traits between the newest British Open champion and the LPGA great
Play Your Best | Curing Faults
Try This Simple Game Plan On Shots Over Water
Gotta carry something? Add five yards for a little cushion.
Play Your Best: Curing Faults
Why'd I Do That? Hitting An Errant Tee Shot
Hit your first errant tee shot of the day? Here's how to adjust.
Swing Sequences
The Kings of Augusta: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have figured into the story at the Masters just about every year for the past 20. They've won more …
Curing Faults
Curing Faults: Tips to end the double cross
How do you miss a fairway by 50 yards? Here's how.
Play Your Best
Curing Faults: Missing Must-Make Putts
Why'd I do that? Your must-make putt is tracking to the hole--but never gets there.
Lesson Tee
Why Did I Skull Into A Water Hazard?
Why'd I do that: What to do when the green is out of reach.
Lesson Tee
Why Did I Skull Into A Water Hazard?
Why'd I do that: With water long the bunker skull is instant death.
Swing Sequence: Sam Snead
See the great moves and perfect positions of The Slammer in a never-before-seen 1950 photo sequence. Words can't describe Sam's fl …
Lesson Tee
'Knuckles Down' For Great Irons
Bow your left wrist through impact to pinch iron shots off the turf.