Golf Channel - Jim McLean: The 8 Step Swing

As with all golf instructional videos, The 8-Step Swing will benefit best those golfers who have a good kinesthetic sense of their body and club during the swing. Those who do not should videotape themselves to see if they are following the instruction properly. Note that McLean focuses exclusively on the full golf swing in this video and doesn't examine putting or the short game. Golfers who enjoy the video may also wish to pick up McLean's book The Eight-Step Swing: A Revolutionary Golf Technique by a Pro Coach for an easier way to look up specific tips and drills. --Eugene Wei

Spotlight Reviews
Learn from the master (2008-06-19)
Customer Review : 5
One of the best golf videos dealing with the swing. Very detailed and meant to be used in steps. Good exercises for practice. He gives you strategies to practice at the range. This video has helped my game.

Wish I had this 30 years ago (2008-06-15)
Customer Review : 5
(VHS) If I had this tape 30 years ago it sure would've saved me a lot of misery on the course. The most important thing this video gave me was a true 'feel' for what the golf swing was all about. After a month, my confidence was very high on the course and for a two-week period I had "it," even a hole-in-one. Then an old college football injury sidelined me. It's called the 8-step but, as Jim says in the video, you can make it a 4-step if you want. I can't recommend this tape enough.

This is all you'll need. (2008-05-03)
Customer Review : 5
This is all you will need to improve your golf swing. It should be your only source for golf swings. In fact, it helped me tremendously. Although other books/videos have helped, they don't teach you what to look for, avoid for or common mistakes golfers make.

Keep in mind though, Jim doesn't explain his setup so if you're wondering why the ball is placed where its placed or how to grip the golf club, do some research before you watch this video.

Every step has a descriptive instruction to how to perform well and what NOT to do. Jim break down the whole golf swing into 8 parts to show you how every little details count. It also contains drills to how to perfect that step. If you don't learn anything from this video or if you cannot master your swing with this video, I really can't think of anything else that can. The bottomline is, you get your moneys worth for watching this 2-hour video. It beats taking golf lessons at a junior college or hiring a professional golfer. The concept is the same thing.

5th step,,,,,,,,,,,,,is the key ! (2007-08-03)
Customer Review : 5
My Dad got me playing golf in the fifth grade and up until the end of my freshman year in high school,,,,I played by swinging naturally. But, the following year, my swing went down hill because I did not understand my golf swing. So, I quit playing for twenty years,,,,then started playing again. Thanks to this video, I'm improving now. This video demonstrates exactly what you should be doing in the golf swing. The way that Jim McLean repeatedly shows each position,,,,,especially the 5th position, should help to improve anyones swing. There are a couple of clips of pros that should be viewed in slow motion to view the 8 steps,,,as well as normal speed to get a sense of the timing and fluidity of a professional golf swing.
If this DVD could be improved, it would be by the addition of more professional swings which could be studied.


Truly Excellent for the Improving Golfer. (2007-06-06)
Customer Review : 5
If you are beyond the beginner level golfer and are looking for a thorough explanation of the golf swing this DVD is the one.

I play off a mid handicap and have been working really hard at improving my consistency. I have finally found some golf instruction that leaves "no stone unturned" in its analysis of the swing.

No wonder Jim McLean is such a highly regarded teacher! His presentation of the complex and detailed material is faultless and at the same time is not complicated. If you take it slowly, as I have, there is nothing that is too difficult to comprehend.

I had hesitated to by this DVD because I incorrectly thought it would be another glib and trite lesson package. It is not. It is remarkably good and will last me for years. In fact I can see myself returning to go back to the basics of the swing each time I strike problems, which unfortunately I am sure will happen.

In my opinion the "pick" of all golf instruction dvd's that I have seen, for the improving golfer, are this DVD, Dave Stockton and Ben Crenshaw's "Insights from the Masters of Putting" and Simon Holmes' "Digital Golf School, Golf Strategy".