n the Golf Channel as a Golf Academy adviser

On the Golf Channel as a Golf Academy adviser. On the pages of Golf Digest as a teaching adviser. On the cover of his new book Golf School. In video stores on the cover of his instructional tapes Swing Thoughts and The Eight Step Swing.

Though he made his name instructing the masses at the Jim McLean Golf Schools, McLean also travels to work with PGA Tour pros Tom Kite, Brad Faxon and Len Mattiace and LPGA players Liselotte Neumann and Cristie Kerr.

You would think when McLean finally dragged his weary body back to his home in Weston at the end of the day, he wouldn't want anything to do with golf.

Think again.

His home is practically a monument to the game. It's a golf fanatic's dream house. It's a practice facility, and it's nearly a museum.

McLean, 49, built a hole, a little par 3 with three sets of tees, in the back yard of his home.

There's a synthetic turf, three-tiered green. The hole measures 75 yards from the back tees. Putts roll a respectable 9.5 to 10 feet on the stimpmeter, and the green is guarded by three sand bunkers. There are seven possible pin placements.

Darkness can't stop McLean from working on his game. The hole is lighted. It's landscaped in American Southwest style with rocks, some desert vegetation and palms. McLean calls the hole ``Desert Sons.''

Even rain can't stop him from honing his swing. If a thunderstorm rolls in, McLean strides a few paces off the back tee and into the 1,300 square-foot addition he had built on his home last year. Inside, under a 16-foot ceiling, he installed a miniature practice range with a synthetic turf tee box and netting.

There's an indoor putting green and more. Lots more. McLean had his indoor facility rigged with a high-tech, computerized swing analyzer. There are three cameras fixed on the tee box. One from behind the target line, one overhead on the ceiling above the tee box and one face-on with the tee box.

The cameras beam images to a computerized television screen that allows McLean to break down a swing from three angles with a system that measures clubhead speed, swing tempo and ball speed. His indoor range is also equipped with assorted swing gadgets. They include a swing fan (a club with fanned wings), an impact bag and a mini-medicine ball for building strength and technique.