Jim Mclean is the owner of the Jim McLean Golf Schools which include: Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami, Florida, PGA WEST in La Quinta, California, La Quinta Resort in La Quinta, California, and Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City, Michigan
Jim is probably best known for his research on the golf swing and his work on The X Factor, which describes in detail, body motions, body angles and body positions. He is also the founder of the 8-Step Swingsm teaching system. The Eight Step video is the all time best selling video on The Golf Channel and the all time #1 golf DVD in America. Jim's "Eight Step Swing" book was ranked by Sports Illustrated as one of the top golf instruction books of the 20th century (ranked #11). "The Golf Swing: Ben Hogan" video has won 6 major awards (3 Aurora awards in 2000 and 3 Telly awards in 2001) - the most of any golf video in history.
Jim's playing achievements include being one of the few people to qualify for the US Junior, the US Amateur (4 times) the US Open (2 times) and the US Senior Open and has also been a contestant in the Masters (where he made the cut). Winner of the Northwest Open and 3 time winner of the Pacific Northwest Amateur. Jim was the Pacific Coast Amateur Champion (at Olympic, San Francisco) winner of the National Skins Game Pro-Am (seen on ESPN $61,000), winner of the Westchester PGA and runner-up at the Metropolitan PGA Championship. Jim has qualified for the National Club Pro Championships ten times. Jim was an All-American at the University of Houston and when he left the team, it had won 12 of 16 NCAA's and finished 2nd in the other four. He was winner of more than 50 Junior and Amateur Titles in the Pacific Northwest. Jim was also named 1st alternate to the US World Cup Team in 1972. He played the PGA Tour during the winter of 1982.
Jim McLean has worked extensively with many top teachers including Carl Welty, Jimmy Ballard, Art Bell, Jackie Burke, Bill Collins, Harry Cooper, Gardner Dickinson, Ben Doyle, Jack Grout, Claude Harmon, Craig Harmon, Dick Harmon, Carl Lohren, Al Mengert, Joe Nichols, Johnny Revolta, Paul Runyan, Bob Toski, Ken Venturi, Bob Watson, Gary Wiren, Vinny Grillo, Harry Umbinetti, Homer Kelly, Butch Harmon, Manuel De La Torre.
Jim has taught more than 100 PGA Tour, LPGA and Senior PGA Tour players including:
| Dana Quigley |
Hal Sutton |
Jane Geddes |
Jim Dent |
| Brad Faxon |
Tom Kite |
Sergio Garcia |
Dale Douglass |
| Lenny Mattiace |
James McLean |
Curtis Strange |
BernhardLanger |
| Cristie Kerr |
BlaineMcCallister |
Ben Crenshaw |
Jerry Pate |
| Gary Player |
Liselotte Neuman |
Peter Jacobsen |
Steve Elkington |
He has worked with George Zahringer since 1975 (2003 Walker Cup selection). George was the winner of the 2002 US Mid Am, runner up in 2001, and dominant player in the Met Area for over 20 years.
Jim has worked extensively (at his facilities) with four junior golfers (Cristie Kerr, Eric Compton, James Vargas, Liz Janagelo, Tyler Leon) since 1996 that have reached the #1 ranking in America. The Jim McLean Golf Schools have produced a huge number of top juniors who have received college scholarships.
There are eight Master Instructors who have worked under Jim that have been named to America's "Top 100 Instructors" list and nineteen on The Golf Digest top teacher list.
Jim was the Director of Golf at 4 top clubs, 3 in New York which included Suningdale Golf Club, Quaker Ridge G.C. (site of the 1997 Walker Cup) and Sleepy Hollow G.C. (site of The Commemorative Senior Tour event for 6 years) and whose members included the well known Rockefeller family and Bill Murray. He was also the Director of Golf at Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage California, site of the Bob Hope Classic which was a part of The Bob Hope tour event rotation.
1973 graduate University of Houston, B.A. Economics (Jim McLean played college golf with great players like John Mahaffey, Bruce Lietzke, Bill Rogers, Fuzzy Zoeller, Tom Jenkins, Bobby Wadkins, Bobby Walzel, Bruce Ashworth).
Married Justine and has two children, Jon and Matt.
