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Also by Jim McLean

Golf Digests Book of Drills

The Complete Idiots Guide to Improving Your Short Game Golf School

The Eight-Step Swing

The X-Factor Swing

I dedicate this book to Golf Digest magazine, the best golf publication of all, with the most experienced staff. Thank you for believing in my first drills book and carrying through with this new publication.

FOREWORD

By Len Mattiace

My first year on tour was in 1993, and I played lousy. I knew I needed help and had to find a golf instructor fast. My good friend, Brad Faxon, suggested that I see Jim McLean at the Doral Golf Resort and Spa in Miami, Florida.

Right from the start I hit it off with Jim. Not only is he a great instructor, but Jim is also a super coach. (He has learned from the greats like Byron Nelson, Claude Harmon, Ken Venturi, Sam Snead, Johnny Revolta, and Jack Burke, Jr. and coaches from other sports like John Wooden and Bobby Knight.) He knows the proper positions of the swing and can communicate ways to get there. And this is why this book, Golf Digests Ultimate Drill Book, is so valuable.

Doing the drills is essential to each player improving their game and shooting lower scores. For example, going into the 1995 Tour Qualifying School, the 6-round pressure cooker, Jim and I had a certain plan to execute the L Drill after each round, with 40 balls. I did it and the results were 16 under par, finishing 18th place and qualifying easily for the tour! Since then, Ive improved every year and with Jims help finished 18th on last years tour money list, earning $2.2 million. I have won two PGA Tour events and finished runner-up in the 2003 Masters, losing in a playoff after a final-round 65.

Whether I am down working with Jim at Doral, at home practicing, or on tour competing, you will see me do these drills and you should do them too! Do the drills that are relative to your needs and see your scores get lower and lower.

Good luck on the links always.

Jacksonville, Florida

INTRODUCTION

When I wrote the original Golf Digests Book of Drills, there was no organized manual or book containing proven drills. I had seen many great teachers use wonderful drills to help students, but none of them had put them all together into one complete reference resource. So, during the winter of 1984, I wrote that first book in Orlando, Florida, in my spare time when not playing in tournaments. Ill never forget that experience. My wife Justine allowed me to use the living room of our apartment, where I had the full manuscript laid out on the floor. And it took that entire off-season for me to organize things.

Later that winter, I shot accompanying photographs. There was a chapter for each part of the game; the idea was that readers could find several good drills for whatever problem they had and solve their swing and shot-making problems through intelligent, honest practice. The beauty of that book was that everybody could find something productive in it, no matter what they thought about swing technique.

Back then, drills were not nearly as popular as they are now. I found that out when I pounded the streets of New York City looking for a publisher. No one bought the idea.

It was not until the 1987 Orlando Golf Show that I found someone who liked my bookJack McDermott of Golf Digest magazine. But it was not until 1990 that the book finally came out. That was because so much additional work had to be done, including reshooting the photographs and then having an artist do drawings based on them.

Thankfully, the brutal work paid off. The original Golf Digests Book of Drills was an immediate success and, to this day, is still in hardback and has been reprinted fourteen times. The response was tremendous: Not only did average golfers offer accolades, so did top tour pros and teachers.

In the years following the publication of that book, I learned or invented many more drills, and in 2001 I came to another crossroads in my career. After wondering why no new drills book had been written, I decided to ask Golf Digest to step up to the plate once again.

What you now hold in your hands is a guidebook to golf improvement, since drills or practice exercises serve as a catalyst to learning, allow you to correct faults that sneak into every players swing from time to time, and learn new tee-to-green scoring shots.

All of my instructors, at each and every school site, use drills to teach what I consider are the eight vital steps in a good golf swing, inclusive of what I call the Corridors of Success and the critical X-Factor positions. Let me explain, so that you are very clear about these instructional points.

The eight most logical steps of the swing, as determined by the study of top golf professionals and amateurs, are as follows:

Step One: The first move in the backswing.

Step Two: Halfway back.

Step Three: The three-quarter position of the backswing.

Step Four: The top of the backswing.

Step Five: The move down to the ball.

Step Six: Impact.

Step Seven: The early follow-through.

Step Eight: The finish and rebound.

I believe that learning to groove these ideal positions through drills is the true shortcut to good golf. However, there are not eight exact positions you must achieve. The ideal swing patterns must require allowances for your own personal differences, since there are always differences in great golf swings. To represent this, I came up with the Corridors of Successparameters within which I like to see any swing fall. For example, on the backswing, I might prefer that the left wrist be flat, although small variations are okay. A flat left wrist at the top is nice, but it is not a fundamental. Whatever area of the swing needs work, you can improve and groove it by working on drills, all designed to help you learn a new action or correct a faulty one in your technique.

I have a detailed system for teaching the game, and I do stress the importance of the X-Factor to many students working to improve through drills. The X-Factor is a proven concept that first takes into account the differential between the turn of the hips and the turn of the shouldersyour torque. Its how you turn, not how much, and what counts most is the gap or differential between the two turning actions. The X-Factor book discussed power positions from setup to finish and focused entirely on body motions. The Eight-Step Swing focused on how to teach and diagnose everything in the golf swing. Both books required a tremendous amount of research, which I have loved doing.

Im happy that many of my philosophies and top drills come to the surface in Golf Digests Ultimate Drill Book. This comprehensive instructional text contains what I call Timeless Winnersevergreen drills I have been teaching for yearsplus well over one hundred new drills. Whats more, this book contains photographs throughout rather than illustrations, since all the players involved in this project agreed that it will better allow you, the reader-golfer, to use the instructional messages put forth in the text that follows.

Whatever your handicap, this book can help you reach your full golf potential. I make this profound statement simply because I have witnessed students improve greatly by doing drill work. By practicing these drills, you can zero in directly on problem points in your game or golf swing, and address these right away.

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